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,…

2. As there is no aptitude for gracious privileges, So also §2God doth now change all his dealings and administrations towards them. Those effects of love, delight, comfort, assurance and sweetness they had, are now turned into the bitter effects of wrath, displeasure, trouble and grief of soul, sad pangs and convulsions of conscience, so that they have no peace with God nor themselves. Thus their sins swallow them up like Jonahs Whale, and they are, as it were, in the bottom of hell. God is really offended and displeased with them, hereupon their conscience doth truly and sadly accuse them: And all this being set home by Gods Spirit convincing of them of sin in all the aggravations of it, O the groans and agonies their souls must needs conflict with! This David doth evidently teach us in what he felt upon him. Hearken then to Davids cryings and groanings, and take you heed how you abuse the Grace of God, either doctrinally or practically to a secure committing of gross sin. Be sure (if ye belong to God) your sin will find you out; and no Doctrine of free Grace, will be Altar or Sanctuary safe enough for you to hide your selves in. God who was the God of all consolation, is now the God of all sorrow and fear. Thou thinkest on him, and thy meditations are not sweet but troublesome. Now its not the Spirit of God, that seals and comforts, but of Conviction and Humiliation. Now Christs blood, which thou despisedst, doth speak bitter things against thee. A drop of Gods anger falls into the conscience of a godly man thus awakened, like a drop of scalding lead into a mans eye. O what comfort do those pleasures, those lusts now afford him? Now he may say of them, as she of her husband, Thou art a bloody husband.

2. As there is no aptitude for gracious priviledges, So also §2God doth now change all his dealings and administrations towards them. Those effects of love, delight, comfort, assurance and sweetness they had, are now turned into the bitter effects of wrath, displeasure, trouble and grief of soul, sad pangs and convulsions of conscience, so that they have no peace with God nor themselves. Thus their sins swallow them up like Jonahs Whale, and they are, as it were, in the bottome of hell. God is really offended and displeased with them, hereupon their conscience doth truly and sadly accuse them: And all this being set home by Gods Spirit convincing of them of sin in all the aggravations of it, O the groans and agonies their souls must needs conflict with! This David doth evidently teach us in what he felt upon him. Hearken then to Davids cryings and groanings, and take you heed how you abuse the Grace of God, either doctrinally or practically to a secure committing of gross sinne. Be sure (if ye belong to God) your sinne will finde you out; and no Doctrine of free Grace, will be Altar or Sanctuary safe enough for you to hide your selves in. God who was the God of all consolation, is now the God of all sorrow and fear. Thou thinkest on him, and thy meditations are not sweet but troublesome. Now its not the Spirit of God, that seals and comforts, but of Conviction and Humiliation. Now Christs bloud, which thou despisedst, doth speak bitter things against thee. A drop of Gods anger fals into the conscience of a godly man thus awakened, like a drop of scalding lead into a mans eye. O what comfort do those pleasures, those lusts now afford him? Now he may say of them, as she of her husband, Thou art a bloudy husband.