The finest and nicest piece of the workmanship of Heaven, if once the Creator's image be defaced upon it by sin, God can and will dash in pieces in his wrath, unless satisfaction be made to justice, and that image be restored; neither of which the sinner himself can do. Adam sinned, and the whole lump of mankind was leavened, and bound over to the fiery oven of God's wrath. The gentiles, that knew not God, "were by nature children of wrath, even as others." A man's house may be on fire, his wife and children perishing in the flames, while he knows nothing of it; and therefore is not concerned about it. Such is your case, O ye that are ignorant of these things! Wrath is silently sinking into your souls, while you are blessing yourselves, saying—"We shall have peace."
Thomas Boston — Human Nature in its Fourfold State (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication), State II (Of Entire Depravation / Nature), on the natural state as a state of wrath, p. 94
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