CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

¹3. Often rebelling against the Light of Conscience whether it be natural or supernatural, This proveth very destructive in the latter end, Rom. 1. Those Heathens who had a natural Knowledge of God, and yet detained the Truth in unrighteousness; They lived against what they knew, and committed those very sins, their Consciences condemned them of, what was the issue of it, but to be given up to unnatural affection, and to work all iniquity with greediness; This was the fruit of rebelling against mere natural Light, but the sin grows higher, when the Spirit of God by the Word doth convince thee, and inform thee, yet for all this thou wilt go on, and thou wilt accomplish thy lusts, This will make way for a man to fall irrecoverably; Thus the Jews, they are come to have a Veil upon their eyes, and hardness upon their hearts, and why? because they always resisted the Spirit of God speaking by his Prophets, Act. 7.51. This daily resisting of the holy Ghost made them come to the top of all their ⟨p. 369⟩wickedness, which was to Crucify the Lord of Glory; As the continual looking into the Sun doth at last blind the Eyes, so those by a frequent beholding of Light in the Word come at last to all Heavenly sight; As men with frequent labour get such a callousness upon their hands that they have no feeling; Thus do many men by a daily rebelling against the Light, at last turn so stupid and sottish, that sin and no sin, hell and no hell, is all one to them; Oh then if thou wouldst not be a Son of perdition nourish all the motions of Gods Spirit, take heed of quenching the Spirit, If this be chased away, thou mayest all thy life be like an Adamant, and never have more relentings.

¹3. Often rebelling against the Light of Conscience whether it be naturall or supernatural, This proveth very destructive in the latter end, Rom. 1. Those Heathens who had a natural Knowledge of God, and yet detained the Truth in unrighteousnesse; They lived against what they knew, and committed those very sinnes, their Consciences condemned them of, what was the issue of it, but to be given up to unnatural affection, and to work all iniquity with greedinesse; This was the fruit of rebelling against meer natural Light, but the sinne grows higher, when the Spirit of God by the Word doth convince thee, and inform thee, yet for all this thou wilt go on, and thou wilt accomplish thy lusts, This will make way for a man to fall irrecoverably; Thus the Jews, they are come to have a Veil upon their eyes, and hardnesse upon their hearts, and why? because they alwaies resisted the Spirit of God speaking by his Prophets,