A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to…

Secondly, To offer violence to all his attributes. 1. To his Justice. For the righteousness of Gods judgment lies, in rendering to all according to their works, Rom. 2. 5, 6. Now, should men sow to the flesh, and yet of the Spirit reap everlasting life, Gal. 6. 7, 8. where were the glory of divine Justice, since it should be given to the wicked according to the work of the righteous? 2. To his holiness. If God should not only save sinners, but save them in their ⟨p. 61⟩sins, his most pure and strict holiness would be exceedingly defaced. The unsanctified is in the eyes of Gods holiness, worse than a Swine or Viper, Mat. 23. 33. 2 Pet. 2. 23. Now what cleanly nature could endure to have the filthy Swine Bed and Board with him in his Parlour, or Bed-chamber? It would offer the extremest violence to the infinite purity of the divine nature, to have such to dwell with him. They cannot stand in his judgment, they cannot abide in his presence, Psalm 1. 5. Psalm 5. 4, 5. If holy David would not endure such in his house, no nor in his sight, Psalm 101. 3, 7. shall we think God will? Should he take men as they be from the Trough to the Table, from the Harlots lips, from the Sty and Draff, to the glory of Heaven, the world would think God were at no such a distance from sin, nor had such dislike of it, as we are told he hath they would conclude, God were altogether such a one as themselves (as they wickedly did, but from the very forbearance of God, Psal. 50. 21.) 3. To his Veracity. For God hath declared from Heaven. That if any shall say he shall have peace, tho' he should go on in the imagination of his heart: his wrath shall smoke against that man, Deut. 29. 19, 20. That they (only) that confess, and forsake their sins, shall find mercy,