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Secondly; Those Evils, and all other as the Effects of God's Justice and Sentence.

First, The Evils that proceed immediately by Emanation from it: and tho some of them are not resented with feeling Apprehensions by Sinners, yet they are of a fearful Nature. Sin has deprived Man of the Purity, Nobility, and Peace of his innocent State.

1. It has stained and tainted him with an universal, intimate and permanent Pollution. Man in his first Creation was holy and righteous: a Beam of Beauty derived from Heaven was shed upon his Soul, in comparison of which, sensitive Beauty is but as the Clearness of Glass, to the Lustre of a Diamond. His Understanding was Light in the Lord, his Will and Affections were regular and pure, the Divine Image was imprest upon all his Faculties, that attracted the Love and Complacency of God himself. Sin has blotted out all his amiable Excellencies, and superinduced ⟨p. 45⟩the most foul Deformity, the Original of which was fetched from Hell. Sinners are the natural Children of Satan, of a near Resemblance to him. The Scripture borrows Comparisons to represent the defiling Quality of Sin, from Pollutions that are most loathsome to our Senses: from pestilential Ulcers, putrefying Sores, filthy Vomit, and defiling Mire. This Pollution is universal through the whole Man, Spirit, Soul and Body. It darkens the Mind, our supreme Faculty, with a Cloud of Corruption; it depraves the Will, and vitiates the Affections. 'Tis a Pollution so deep and permanent, that the Deluge that swept away a World of Sinners, did not wash away their Sins: and the Fire at the last Day, that shall devour the Dross of the visible World, and renew the Heavens and the Earth, shall not purge away the Sins of the guilty Inhabitants. ⟨p. 46⟩