Secondly, Because their Holy duties are aggravations of their sin, therefore God will remember them then rather than at any other time; as thus: for the Jews (in the text) here to come to sacrifice for their sins: certainly the language of which was this: Lord, I acknowledge I do deserve death my self for the sins which I have committed, and I can only have peace with thee through the sacrifice of thy Son that I believe is to come; now for them to come and say so and yet continue in their sin still, this ads impudence unto their sin; it was a sin of infirmity before, it is a sin of presumption now. So, when men shall presume to come before God in prayer, they have lived wickedly heretofore, and now they come before God to testify their respect that they profess they owe to God, and yet their consciences tells them that they do wickedly depart from God in their lives; when they come in prayer certainly they come to confess and name their sins before God, and to tell God what sinners they are, and yet still their hearts do close with their sins, yea what an aggravation is this? yea they came to judg ⟨p. 123⟩themselves for their sins and yet still to continue in them, Oh my brethren if you did but think of the aggravation that such prayer causes of our sins it would make our hearts quake and tremble. But I speak only to those that are Hypocrites and live in their sins still, their Holy duties do but aggravate their sins, and therefore no marvel though then God remember their sins in a more special manner. We have cause to wonder that God doth not come upon some of us in his wrath while we are in the midst of our Holy duties, as Pilate came upon the Galileans and mingled their blood with their sacrifices, and so while we compare the lives of men with their prayers (I say) it is a marvel that God doth not mingle their blood with their sacrifice; Oh take heed any of you that are conscious to your selves, or your hearts closing with any known sin, take heed the next time you go into Gods presence in prayer and confess your sins, and judg your selves, take heed that God doth not then remember your sins; Now will I remember them, even in the time of their holy duties; you think that's the time of our greatest pleasing of God, but it may prove to be the time of Gods remembering your iniquities against you.
Secondly, Because their Holy duties are aggravations of their sin, therfore God wil remember them then rather than at any other time; as thus: for the Jews (in the text) here to come to sacrifice for their sins: certainly the language of which was this: Lord, I acknowledg I do deserve death my self for the sins which I have committed, and I can only have peace with thee through the sacrifice of thy Son that I beleeve is to come; now for them to come and say so and yet continue in their sin still, this ads impudence unto their sin; it was a sin of infirmity before, it is a sin of presumption now. So, when men shall presume to come before God in prayer, they have lived wickedly heretofore, and now they come before God to testifie their respect that they profess they ow to God, and yet their consciences tells them that they do wickedly depart from God in their lives; when they come in prayer certainly they come to confess and name their sins before God, and to tell God what sinners they are, and yet still their hearts do close with their sins, yea what an aggravation is this? yea they came to judg ⟨p. 123⟩themselves for their sins and yet still to continue in them, Oh my brethren if you did but think of the aggravation that such prayer causes of our sins it would make our hearts quake and tremble. But I speak only to those that are Hypocrites and live in their sins stil, their Holy duties do but aggravate their sins, and therefore no mervail though then God remember their sins in a more special manner. We have cause to wonder that God doth not come upon some of us in his wrath while we are in the midst of our Holy duties, as Pilat came upon the Galileans and mingled their blood with their sacrifices, and so while we compare the lives of men with their prayers (I say) it is a mervail that God doth not mingle their blood with their sacrifice; Oh take heed any of you that are conscious to your selves, or your hearts closing with any known sin, take heed the next time you go into Gods presence in prayer and confess your sins, and judg your selves, take heed that God doth not then remember your sins; Now will I remember them, even in the time of their holy duties; you think that's the time of our greatest pleasing of God, but it may prove to be the time of Gods remembring your iniquities against you.
