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Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with…
Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with the recompenses of the future state for the cure of infidelity, the hectic evil of the times / by William Bates ...Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with the recompences of the future state for the cure of infidelity, the hectick evil of the times / by William Bates ...
London: printed by J.D. for Brabazon Aylmer, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Consider Man's relation to God as the Creator and Preserver, ⟨p. 250⟩who gives him life and innumerable benefits, who confers on him the most shining marks of his favour, and this unspeakably enhances the guilt of Sin against God, by adding Ingratitude to Rebellion, the abuse of his Goodness to the ignominious affront of his Majesty. The degrees of Guilt arise in proportion to our Duty and Obligations. For Man then to turn Enemy against his Father and Sovereign, to deprave and pervert his Gifts, to deface his Image, to obscure his Glory, justly provokes his extreme Anger. If in the Judgement of Mankind some heinous Offenders, as Parricides, the Assassinates of Kings, the Betrayers of their Country, contract so great a guilt as exceeds the most exquisite Torments that the Criminal can endure, and no ⟨p. 251⟩less than Death, that for ever deprives of all that is valuable and pleasant in this natural life, is an equal punishment to it; What temporal Sufferings can expiate sin against God? For besides the transcendent excellence of his Nature, infinitely raised above all other beings, there are united in him in an incomparable degree, all the Rights that are inherent in our Parents, Princes, or Country, for benefits received from them. And may he not then justly deprive ungracious Rebels for ever of the comforts of his reviving Presence?
2. Consider Man's relation to God as the Creator and Preserver, ⟨p. 250⟩who gives him life and innumerable benefits, who conferrs on him the most shining marks of his favour, and this unspeakably inhances the guilt of Sin against God, by adding Ingratitude to Rebellion, the abuse of his Goodness to the ignominious affront of his Majesty. The degrees of Guilt arise in proportion to our Duty and Obligations. For Man then to turn Enemy against his Father and Sovereign, to deprave and pervert his Gifts, to deface his Image, to obscure his Glory, justly provokes his extream Anger. If in the Judgement of Mankind some heinous Offenders, as Parricides, the Assassinates of Kings, the Betrayers of their Countrey, contract so great a guilt as exceeds the most exquisite Torments that the Criminal can endure, and no ⟨p. 251⟩