An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

Sinful man is loathsome, and abominable unto God. How much more abominable is man; This is not to be understood of some particular man, or of some sort of men who are more vile then others, but take the best of men, the most accomplished and complete in the whole course of nature, these are abominable; they are deprived of the Image of God, they are stamped with the Image of Satan, they are not only unable to do that which is good, but they are totally averse from it, yea, enemies to it; is not all this enough to render man abominable in the sight of God? And so abominable is man, that he doth not only displease the eye of God, but the very eyes of those who have received the grace of God. A godly man turns away from the wicked, as the wicked man doth from the godly. (Prov. 29.27.) An unjust man is an abomination to the just; and he that is upright in his way is an abomination to the wicked. The distaste is mutual; 'tis called enmity (Gen. 3.15.) here abomination. The wicked man saith (as the Devil to Christ) What have I to do with thee thou Son of David. The godly ⟨p. 67⟩man saith, What have I to do with thee thou son of Belial. 'Tis the sin of the wicked man to abhor the righteous, for he abhors him for his righteousness: 'Tis the duty of a godly man to abhor the wicked, and he abhors him only for his wickedness. To do so is a piece of his character, Who shall dwell in the Mountain of God: He is a man, in whose eye a vile (that is, a wicked) person is abhorred, Psal. 15.4. Much less can he look pleasedly, or pleasantly upon a wicked man; his heart riseth against him, not out of pride, or high thoughts of himself, or from the lowness of his condition, if he be poor; but from the odiousness of his disposition, and his opposition of goodness: Such a man is vile in his esteem, how honourable so ever he is in the eye of the World.

Sinfull man is loathsome, and abominable unto God. How much more abominable is man; This is not to be understood of some particular man, or of some sort of men who are more vile then others, but take the best of men, the most accomplisht and compleate in the whole course of nature, these are abominable; they are deprived of the Image of God, they are stampt with the Image of Satan, they are not onely unable to doe that which is good, but they are totally averse from it, yea, enemies to it; is not all this enough to render man abominable in the sight of God? And so abominable is man, that he doth not onely displease the eye of God, but the very eyes of those who have received the grace of God. A godly man turnes away from the wicked, as the wicked man doth from the godly. (