A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

2. Those that make others sins the matter of invectives, rather than of lamentations, and bespatter the man without bewailing the sin. We should consider common sins with affection to God, and pity to the offenders; with a desire that they may restore, by a true conversion, the glory they have robbed God of by an accursed Rebellion. While we hate the sin, we should evidence that we love the man^*. We must never love the wickedness, nor hate the person. We pity a sick man, though we loath his Disease. Sinners are miserable enough without our hatred, and by hating them we make our selves more miserable, by committing a fault against reason and nature, and do them no good. The more wicked any man is, the more worthy of pity, by how much the more his crime is our hatred. God, who is infinite purity, hates mens sins, because they are enemies to his holiness; but he hath a common affection to their persons, as they are the effects of his goodness and creative Power. Our exclamations against common sins ought not to exceed lamentations for them. There ought to be more grief in our hearts, than fire in our tongues. They break the whole Law, that lament not the crime out of love to the Law-maker, and grieve not for the Sinner out of love to their neighbour.

2. Those that make others sins the matter of invectives, rather than of lamentations, and bespatter the man without bewailing the sin. We should consider common sins with affection to God, and pity to the offenders; with a desire that they may restore, by a true conversion, the glory they have robb'd God of by an accursed Rebellion. While we hate the sin, we should evidence that we love the man^*. We must never love the wickedness, nor hate the person. We pity a sick man, though we loath his Disease. Sinners are miserable enough without our hatred, and by hating them we make our selves more miserable, by committing a fault against reason and nature, and do them no good. The more wicked any man is, the more worthy of pity, by how much the more his crime is our hatred. God, who is infinite purity, hates mens sins, because they are enemies to his holiness; but he hath a common affection to their persons, as they are the effects of his goodness and creative Power. Our exclamations against common sins ought not to exceed lamentations for them. There ought to be more grief in our hearts, than fire in our tongues. They break the whole Law, that lament not the crime out of love to the Law-maker, and grieve not for the Sinner out of love to their neighbour.