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Sermons upon Psalm CXXX, ver. 4 but there is forgiveness with thee, that thou…
Sermons upon Psalm CXXX, ver. 4 but there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayst be feared / by William Bates.
London: printed by J.D. for Brabazon Aylmer, 1696
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.
1. The Extent of it, with Respect to the Number and Quality of the Sins that are pardoned.
1st. The Number of them. David, after an attentive Consideration of the Purity and Perfection of God's Law, breaks forth in a very great Anxiety, Who can understand his Errors? Who can enumerate the many Defections from that strait Rule of our Duty? In many things we offend all. We are obliged perpetually to obey and glorify God: yet in every Action, even in our ⟨p. 56⟩religious Duties, there are many Defects and Defilements that want Pardon. How many Swarms of vain and unprofitable Thoughts, of carnal, covetous, proud, envious, and revengeful Thoughts and Desires lodge in the Hearts of Men? What a Torrent of idle, sensual, vain-glorious and passionate Words flow from their Lips? How many thousand sinful Actions proceed from them? When the enlightened Conscience seriously reflects upon our Sins of Omission and Commission, how astonishing is their vast Number? What a mountainous Heap appears? They reach as low as Hell, and rise as high as Heaven. It would tire the Hand of an Angel to write down the Pardons that God bestows upon one penitent Believer.
1st. The Number of them. David, after an attentive Consideration of the Purity and Perfection of God's Law, breaks forth in a very great Anxiety, Who can understand his Errors? Who can enumerate the many Defections from that strait Rule of our Duty? In many things we offend all. We are obliged perpetually to obey and glorify God: yet in every Action, even in our ⟨p. 56⟩religious Duties, there are many Defects and Defilements that want Pardon. How many Swarms of vain and unprofitable Thoughts, of carnal, covetous, proud, envious, and revengeful Thoughts and Desires lodg in the Hearts of Men? What a Torrent of idle, sensual, vain-glorious and passionate Words flow from their Lips? How many thousand sinful Actions proceed from them? When the inlightned Conscience seriously reflects upon our Sins of Omission and Commission, how astonishing is their vast Number? What a mountainous Heap appears? They reach as low as Hell, and rise as high as Heaven. It would tire the Hand of an Angel to write down the Pardons that God bestows upon one penitent Believer.