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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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6. And then it must needs follow, that this distemper is a false and injurious Judg of all the Word and Works of God, and of all his mercies and corrections. Whatever such a one reads or hears he thinks it all makes against him: every sad Word and Threatening in Scripture, he thinks meaneth him as if it named him. But the Promises and Comforts he hath no part in, as if he had been by name excepted. All Gods mercies are extenuated and taken for no mercies, as if God intended them all but to make his sin the greater, and to increase his heavy reckoning and further his damnation: He thinks God doth but sugar over poison to him, and give him all in Hatred, and not in any Love, with a design to sink him the deeper in Hell. And if God correct him, he supposeth that it is but the beginning of his misery, and God doth torment him before the time.
6. And then it must needs follow, that this distemper is a false and injurious Judg of all the Word and Works of God, and of all his mercies and corrections. Whatever such a one reads or hears he thinks it all makes against him: every sad Word and Threatning in Scripture, he thinks meaneth him as if it named him. But the Promises and Comforts he hath no part in, as if he had been by name excepted. All Gods mercies are extenuated and taken for no mercies, as if God intended them all but to make his sin the greater, and to encrease his heavy reckoning and further his damnation: He thinks God doth but sugar over poison to him, and give him all in Hatred, and not in any Love, with a design to sink him the deeper in Hell. And if God correct him, he supposeth that it is but the beginning of his misery, and God doth torment him before the time.
7. And by this you see that it is an Enemy to Thankfulness; it rather reproacheth God for his Mercies, as if they were Injuries, than giveth him any hearty thanks.