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…

But then we must come to him, and to God by him, and take him as our Lord, and King, and head, and husband, as he is freely tendered, we must be made one with him, and have our hearts divorced from all our sins for ever. And why not now? do we yet look for another Christ? and to allude to us, as Naomi said to Ruth, Is there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? So say I, Hath God any more such sons? or is not this Christ good enough? or are we afraid of being happy too soon, in being married to him?

But then wee must come to him, and to God by him, and take him as our Lord, and King, and head, and husband, as he is freely tendered, we must be made one with him, and have our hearts divorced from all our sinnes for ever. And why not now? doe we yet look for another Christ? and to allude to us, as Naomi said to Ruth, Is there yet any more sonnes in my wombe, that they may be your husbands? So say I, Hath God any more such sonnes? or is not this Christ good enough? or are we afraid of being happy too soon, in being married to him?

But yet if we will have Christ indeed (without whom we are undone) how shall we thou continue in sin, ¹which is thus above measure sinful? no not in one. The Apostle speaks there in the language of impossibility and inconsistency. Christ, and the reign of one sin, they cannot stand together.

But yet if we will have Christ indeed (without whom we are undone) how shall we thou continue in sinne, ¹which is thus above measure sinfull? no not in one. The Apostle speaks there in the language of impossibility and inconsistencie. Christ, and the raigne of one sinne, they cannot stand together.

1. 1Rom. 6.