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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Sermon 2: The Case I am to discourse of this Morning, is this: Quest. Wherein, and wherefore, the…
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So that many sins that may pass for no sins now, may be found sinful then; and such as pass for small sins, and of little scandal before men now, may be found highly sinful in that day.
There are many sins that have more Scandal than Impenitency under the Gospel, and yet not so much guilt: As we use to say in Divinity, that some sins are majoris reatus, but minoris scandali; so it is here. The sins of Sodom had more Scandal, but the sins of Capernaum greater Guilt.
Q. But wherein lies the sinfulness of Impenitency under the Gospel above other sin?
Q. But wherein lyes the sinfulness of Impenitency under the Gospel above other sin?
Ans. 1. Such will be left without Excuse above all others. If the Heathen are said to be without excuse, not living and worshipping God according to the dictates of natural Light; and the notices of God suggested by the works of Creation, Rom. 1.20. If the Jews will have their Mouth stopped, having the written Law of God, and the Knowledge of God's Will therein, and yet transgressing this Law: as the Apostle speaks,