A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

Fourthly, there is required hereunto an hearty hatred and detestation of all sin. To which end we must consider, that it is an offence against Gods infinite Majesty, and supreme Justice, and that nothing in the world is so contrary unto his most pure and holy nature; nothing so odious and loathsome unto him, as appeareth by his most just severity, in punishing of it with most sharp and grievous punishments. For though our first parents in the state of innocency, were his most excellent and best beloved creatures, yet for one transgression he rejected them, and punished not only them, but also all their posterity with temporal punishments of all kinds, and everlasting death and condemnation both of body and soul. Though the world and the creatures therein were his excellent workmanship, yet when it was defiled with the sin of man, it was with all its inhabitants (saving those which were reserved in the Ark) destroyed with an universal deluge. For sin he consumed Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone from heaven, and rejected the whole nation of his beloved Israel from being his people. Yea, when our Saviour Jesus Christ, the Son of his love, bore our sins as our surety, he spared him not, but caused him in his body to suffer most grievous punishments, and in his soul to bear the full viols of his wrath, till his Justice, by his all-sufficient sufferings, was fully satisfied. The which considerations must make us daily to renew our hatred against all our sins, which God so mortally hateth, and especially those which cleave fastest to our corrupt nature, and unto which we are most inclined, because by them we do most often displease and dishonour our gracious God and loving Father: And to proclaim continual war against them, that we may vanquish and subdue, mortify and crucify them; and seriously to resolve with our