A discourse of the saving grace of God

'Tis true, Sinners cannot do what they say and wish in their hearts. They have not Power to undeify God, or to deprive him of his Divine Perfections; but this does not lessen nor excuse their Enmity against him: For it is true in evil, as well as in good, Where there is a willing mind, it is accounted as if it were done.

'Tis true, Sinners cannot do what they say and wish in their hearts. They have not Power to undeifie God, or to deprive him of his Divine Perfections; but this does not lessen nor excuse their Enmity against him: For it is true in evil, as well as in good, Where there is a willing mind, it is accounted as if it were done.

O the horrid nature of Sin! Be astonished, O Heavens, and be ye horribly afraid at this Prodigious Enmity, which is in the Hearts of Sinners against God. Why is thy wrath restrained? O Lord; Why does not thy Indignation break forth, and destroy all Sinners from off the face of the Earth? Nay, why was not Heaven and Earth annihilated at the first appearance of such horrid Treason, of such desperate Enmity?

But we have not yet discovered the height of this Enmity. What is the reason, that a Sinner should thus set himself against God? It may be, he despairs of Salvation, while the Almighty rules; and therefore the desire of his own Happiness may be the cause of this opposition; and so it will not be pure Enmity, but some Principle of self-love, that may make him so desperate.