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…

There is a third consideration the text suggests, to show the fearfulness of thy sin in this respect; and that is, that thou goest on every minute sinning and in impenitency, by despising his goodness, to treasure up wrath against the day of wrath; to sin against mercy, of all other increaseth wrath; thou must pay treasures, for treasures spent. As thou lavishly spendest riches of mercy, so God will recover riches of glory out of thee: God will not lose by thee, but will reckon with thee in wrath for every offer of patience spent; for every sand of long suffering that runs out, he drops in a drop of wrath into his Vials, and it will prove a treasure, such a treasure as shall bring in an eternal revenue of glory unto God, of all his glory lost, and riches spent, with advantage; such a treasure, as will ask an eternity of time to be spent upon thee, and yet be never emptied or made less; and the longer thou goest on, the greater heap it will swell unto. And dost thou know and consider how fast this treasure fills, and how much the longer thou goest on to add to it, still the more thou addest, still the ⟨p. 41⟩last year more than all the years before? every minutes impenitency adding to this heap and sum, as new figures added in a sum use to do; the first is but one, the second makes it ten, the third an hundred, the fourth a thousand, and what a sum will this grow to?

There is a third consideration the text suggests, to shew the fearfulnesse of thy sin in this respect; and that is, that thou goest on every minute sinning and in impenitency, by despising his goodnesse, to treasure up wrath against the day of wrath; to sin against mercy, of all other encreaseth wrath; thou must pay treasures, for treasures spent. As thou lavishly spendest riches of mercy, so God will recover riches of glory out of thee: God will not lose by thee, but will reckon with thee in wrath for every offer of patience spent; for every sand of long suffering that runs out, hee drops in a drop of wrath into his Vialls, and it will prove a treasure, such a treasure as shall bring in an eternall revenue of glory unto God, of all his glory lost, and riches spent, with advantage; such a treasure, as will aske an eternity of time to be spent upon thee, and yet be never emptied or made lesse; and the longer thou goest on, the greater heap it will swell unto. And dost thou know and consider how fast this treasure fills, and how much the longer thou goest on to adde to it, still the more thou addest, still the ⟨p. 41⟩