The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…

First, Because upon our sin, we owe God his honour, his glory, yea, his very deity again, which as much as lieth in us, we by transgressions have taken away. Omne peccatum, est quasi deicidium, say the Schools. Every sin doth as it were deprive God (as much as lieth in a sinner) of his Godhead and blessedness; so that if God were capable of misery and grief, thy sins would bring it upon him. Hence are those expressions of being pressed by our sins as a cart is under sheaves, Amos 2.13. And the Prophet Ezekiel his lying so many days on one side, and then on the other, to his great pain and trouble, was as some think, to represent, how much God was affected with the Israelites sins, and how great his patience was to endure them so long. If then they said to David, Thou art worth ten thousand of us: how much rather may we say to God, Thy honour, thy glory, it is worth ten thousand thousand of us? it is fitter for us to be damned or annihilated, then the least glimpse of his glory obscured. For this is such a debt in sin, as we are never able to make up again. If a mean Peasant should defame a great King, and reproach him, he were never able to make satisfaction in way of Honour to him; how much rather is this true of us, seeing there is no proportion between that which is finite and infinite?

First, Because upon our sin, we owe God his honour, his glory, yea, his very deity again, which as much as lieth in us, we by transgressions have taken away. Omne peccatum, est quasi deicidium, say the Schools. Every sinne doth as it were deprive God (as much as lieth in a sinner) of his Godhead and blessednesse; so that if God were capable of misery and grief, thy sins would bring it upon him. Hence are those expressions of being pressed by our sins as a cart is under sheavs, Amos 2.13. And the Prophet Ezekiel his lying so many daies on one side, and then on the other, to his great pain and trouble, was as some think, to represent, how much God was affected with the Israelites sins, and how great his patience was to endure them so long. If then they said to David, Thou art worth ten thousand of us: how much rather may we say to God, Thy honour, thy glory, it is worth ten thousand thousand of us? it is fitter for us to be damned or annihilated, then the least glimpse of his glory obscured. For this is such a debt in sin, as we are never able to make up again. If a mean Peasant should defame a great King, and reproach him, he were never able to make satisfaction in way of Honour to him; how much rather is this true of us, seeing there is no proportion between that which is finite and infinite?