A Body of Practical Divinity

Thirdly, It is against Nature. Every Creature in its kind, obeys Gods Laws: 1. Animate Creatures obey him, God spake to the Fish, and it set Jonah ashoar, Jonah 2.10. 2. Inanimate Creatures, the Wind and the Sea obey him; Mark 4.41. The very Stones, if God give them a Commission, will cry out against the Sins of Men, Hab. 2.11. The Stone shall cry out of the Wall, and the Beam out of the Timber shall answer it: None disobeys God but Man and the Devil, and can we find none to join with else?

Thirdly, It is against Nature. Every Creature in its kind, obeys Gods Laws: 1. Animate Creatures obey him, God spake to the Fish, and it set Ionah ashoar, Ionah 2.10. 2. Inanimate Creatures, the Wind and the Sea obey him; Mark 4.41. The very Stones, if God give them a Commission, will cry out against the Sins of Men, Hab. 2.11. The Stone shall cry out of the Wall, and the Beam out of the Timber shall answer it: None disobeys God but Man and the Devil, and can we find none to joyn with else?

Fourthly, It is against Kindness. How many Mercies have we to allure us to obey! Miracles of Mercy; therefore the Apostle joins these Two together, Disobedient and Unthankful, 2 Tim. 3.2. And this dyes a Sin of a Crimson colour. And as the Sin is great, for it is a contempt of God, a hanging out of the Flag of Defiance against God, (and Rebellion is as the Sin of Witchcraft,) so the Punishment will be proportionable: Such cut themselves off from Mercy. Gods Mercy is for them that keep his Commandments, but no Mercy to them that live in a wilful breach of them. All God's Judgments set themselves in Battle Array against the Disobedient. 1. Temporal Judgments,