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SERM.
V.]
OF
THE
MORAL
LAr1,
AND
THE
EVIL, OF
Sig.
77
Who
sees
not the
dreadful
evil
of
sin,
in
the
wretched
change
that
is
introduced
by
it
into
the
creation
of God
in
the
upper and
lower worlds
?
It
has
turned
angels
of
light into devils and
spirits
of
darkness
:
It
has
thrown
millions
of
glorious
and
happy
beings
out
of
their hea-
venly
habitation
:
Itniade
our
first
parents afraid of their
Maker
even in
paradise, and turned
them
out
of that
happy garden.
It
brought
many curses
upon human
na-
ture,
many sorrows and
sufferings
of
every kind.
It
is
sin
that
has
run through
every
generation, and exposed
us
to
all
the
evils
that
we
feel,
and
to
all
that
we
fear,
either
from the
hand
Of
God, or our
fellow-
creatures.
While
man
stood
innocent
and obedient, nothing
could
hurt
him
;
but
he
broke
the
law
of
his
God and re-
nou aced
his
government, and the bonds
of
love
between
mankind are broken,
and
the
brute creatures
have
broken
their
subjection to man in
a great
degree.
Ile
who was
made
to
govern them
is
afraid of
them,
and
'has
often been destroyed
by
them
:
Innocence had
been
a sure
and
everlasting
defence. All
the desolations
that
have
been made
by
famine
and
pestilence,
and
wars
and
earthquakes,
and
by
the rage
of
wild
beasts from
the
beginning of
the world,
are
owing
to
the
sin
of
man.
But
these
thoughts bring
me
down to the
fourth general
head
of
my
discourse, which
is
to consider the
proper
demerit of
sin,
or what
is
the punishment
it
deserves:
This
I
shall
represent under
these
four plain
Proposi-
tións
:
Proposition
I.
When God
made man
at
first,
he
designed to
continue
him in
life
and happiness
so
long
as
.man
continued innocent
and
obedient to the
law,
and
thereby maintained
his
allegiance
to
God
his
Maker."
This
is
agreeable
to
the terms
of
the
law
represented
in
Rom.
ii. 7.
If
he
had
patiently continued
in well
doing
he
should have enjoyed
'glory
and
honour, immortality
and
eternal
life
:
And the
blessed
God
seems to
have
promised
it
to man,
at
least
by way
of
emblem and sa-
crament,
in
giving
hirn
the
tree. of
life,
and perhaps
also
by
a more express promise
of
life,
which
through
the designed
brevity,
of
the history, Móses might
not
mention.
Proposition.
II.
"
By
a
wilful
and presumptuous trans-
gression
of
the
law,
man violated
his
allegiance
to
God
his
Maker, and forfeited
all
good things
that
his
Creator