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…

Sixthly, God hates nothing but sin. Were all evils swept down into one man, God hates him not simply for them, not because thou art poor and disgraced, but only because sinful. It is sin he hates, Rev. 2. 15. Isa. 27. 11. yea it alone: and whereas other attributes are diversely communicated in their effects to several things: as his love and goodness, Himself, his Son, his children, have all a share in: yet all the hatred (which is as large as his love) is solely poured ⟨p. 10⟩out upon, and wholly, and limited only unto sin.

Sixtly, God hates nothing but sinne. Were all evills swept downe into one man, God hates him not simply for them, not because thou art poore and disgraced, but onely because sinfull. It is sin he hates, Rev. 2. 15. Isa. 27. 11. yea it alone: and whereas other attributes are diversely communicated in their effects to severall things: as his love and goodnesse, Himselfe, his Sonne, his children, have all a share in: yet all the hatred (which is as large as his love) is solely poured ⟨p. 10⟩out upon, and wholly, and limited onely unto sinne.

All the question will be what transcendency of evil is in the essence of it, that makes it above all other evils, and hated, and it only by God, Christ, the Saints, &c. more than any other evil.

All the question will be what transcendencie of evill is in the essence of it, that makes it above all other evills, and hated, and it onely by God, Christ, the Saints, &c. more than any other evill.