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Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God
Several discourses upon the existence and attributes of God by that late eminent minister in Christ, Mr. Stephen Charnocke ...
London: printed for D. Newman, 1682
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.
The inordinacy of the heart to one lust may imply a stronger contempt of him, than if a Legion of lusts did possess the heart. It argues a greater disesteem, when he shall be slighted for a single vanity. The depth of Esau's profaneness in contemning his birth right, and God in it, is aggravated by his selling it for one morsel of meat, *and that none of the daintiest, none of the costliest, a mess of pottage; implying, had he parted with it at a greater rate, it had been more tolerable, and his profaneness more excusable. And it is reckoned as a high aggravation of the Corruption of the Israelite Judges, Amos 2.6. That they sold the poor for a pair of shoos; That is, that they would betray the cause of the poor for a bribe of no greater value, than might purchase them a pair of shoos. To place any one thing as our chief end, tho never so light, doth not excuse: He that will not stick to break with God for a trifle, a small pleasure, will leap the hedge upon a greater temptation.
The inordinacy of the heart to one lust may imply a stronger contempt of him, than if a Legion of lusts did possess the heart. It argues a greater disesteem, when he shall be slighted for a single vanity. The depth of Esaus prophaneness in contemning his birth right, and God in it, is aggravated by his selling it for one morsel of meat, *and that none of the daintiest, none of the costliest, a mess of pottage; implying, had he parted with it at a greater rate, it had been more tolerable, and his prophaness more excusable. And it is reckoned as a high aggravation of the Corruption of the Israelite Judges, Amos 2.6. That they sold the poor for a pair of shoos; That is, that they would betray the cause of the poor for a bribe of no greater value, than might purchase them a pair of shoos. To place any one thing as our chief end, tho never so light, doth not excuse: He that will not stick to break with God for a trifle, a small pleasure, will leap the hedge upon a greater temptation.