118, The Evil of Evil ; Cr the our own pexfons do at'ually commit, but though we had never committed any actual fin in our own perfons., yet the fin ofour firft. Pa- rents is enough to make us children of wrath, and beour eternal ruine. Certainlie there is a great deal of evil in fin more than the world thinksof; when it iball fo provoke God as that he fhall have fuch difpleafure to put all Man- kind tobe in the fineof Children of wrath for thefin ofour firfi Parents. This isa fecond Ma- nifeftation ofGods difpleafure againfi fin. Thirdly, A thirdManifeftationof Gods dif- pleafure againfi fin is in that fiery Lan. (as the Scripture cals it) that Godbathgivenfirforbidding and threatningoften. Confider thedreadful man- ner ofGods giving the Law, that it was with Fire, Lightning, Thunderings,and Earthquakes, and Smoke, fo as theScripture faith M.fes did fhake and trembleat thevery fight of thedread- fulnefs ofthe Law when it was firít given. That was only to fet forth thus much to us, That if theLaw that God gave be broken, that then Godwill bevery dreadful tothofe that break it; therefore hegives it at firfi in fuch a dreadful manner. It may be manybold prefumptuous finners think it nothing tobreak the Lawofthe infiniteeternal God; but in that God gives the Law in fuch a dreadful manner as youmay read in the 19. ofExodie, how dreadfully God gave theLaw God Both thereby declare' to all the World, how dreadful finners aretoexped him . to be, iftheydobreak theLaw. put efpecial- ly confider that dreadful Curfe annexed to the Law,
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