Aggravation of sin and sinning against knowledge. Mercy. Delivered in several sermons upon divers…Aggravation of sinne and sinning against knowledge. Mercie. Delivered in severall sermons upon divers…

2. He who is truly termed Good, or Bountiful, all that he gives away must be his own; ¹And so all which God bestows, it is his own. So Psal. 24. 1. The Earth is the Lords. The ground we tread on, the place we dwell in; He is our Landlord. But is that all? for the house may be the Landlords, when the furniture is the Tenants: therefore he further adds, And the fullness of it is his also: that is, all the things that fill the world, all the furniture,² and provision of it both; all the moveables. (So Psal. 50. 11, 12.) The cattle and ⟨p. 5⟩the fowls upon a thousand hills are mine, says he; and also all the standing goods, the corn and oil (which you set and plant) are mine, Hos. 2. 9. yea and the Psalmist in the same 24. Psalm, adds further, that they who dwell therein are his also: not the house and furniture only, but the Inhabitants themselves. And this, by the most sure, and most sovereign title that can be, better than that of purchase, or inheritance, of and from another: for he hath made them; All is thine, because all comes of thee, ³says the same David, 1 Chron. 29. 11, 12. And all things are not only [of him] but [through him] Rom. 11. 36. that is, they cannot stand nor subsist without him. Even Kings, (the greatest and most bountiful of men) their bounty is but as that of the clouds, which though they shower down plentifully, yet they first received all from the Earth below them.

2. He who is truly termed Good, or Bountifull, all that he gives away must be his owne; ¹