Man's Nature Is Corrupt - Fourfold State - The Fall of Man

Every man naturally loves to be at full liberty himself; to have his own will for his law ; and, if he were to follow his natural inclinations, he would vote himself out of the reach of all laws, divine and human. Hence some, the power of whose hands has been answerable to their natural inclination, have indeed made themselves absolute, and above laws; agreeably to man's monstrous design at first, to be as gods, Gen. 3:5. Yet, (2.) There is no man that would willingly adventure to live in a lawless society —therefore, even pirates and robbers have laws among themselves, though the whole society casts off all respect to law and right.Every man naturally loves to be at full liberty himself; to have his own will for his law ; and, if he were to follow his natural inclinations, he would vote himself out of the reach of all laws, divine and human. Hence some, the power of whose hands has been answerable to their natural inclination, have indeed made themselves absolute, and above laws; agreeably to man's monstrous design at first, to be as gods, Gen. 3:5. Yet, (2.) There is no man that would willingly adventure to live in a lawless society —therefore, even pirates and robbers have laws among themselves, though the whole society casts off all respect to law and right. Thomas Boston. Human Nature In Its Fourfold State (pp. 40-41).