An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Secondly, Others choose that which is evil, hoping that some good will come of it, that God may have some glory by it, and men themselves and others may have some advantage by it. This reproach was cast upon the Apostles and their doctrine, which St. Paul rejected with highest disdain (Rom. 3.8.) Not as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm, that we say, let us do evil that good may come thereof, whose damnation is just. The glory of the free grace of God will be manifested in the pardoning of our sin, come therefore (say some) let us sin our fill, that so the immeasurableness of the Lords goodness and mercy may appear. Woe to those who make such inferences, their damnation is just. To do evil upon any hopes of good by it (though it be the glory of God) subjects to the worst evil of suffering, damnation. Others choose sin; Why? They look some good will come by it, that is, some profit. If we strain our consciences to do this, we may get or keep favour with men; if we do this evil, it may gain us acceptance in the world. Many choose evil, because in doing so, they swim with the stream, and comply with the many, or as the Apostle speaks, with the course of this world; these choose evil, because they would be in the fashion of the most, they consider which way the world is like to go, and set themselves to go that way.

Secondly, Others choose that which is evil, hoping that some good will come of it, that God may have some glory by it, and men themselves and others may have some advantage by it. This reproach was cast upon the Apostles and their doctrine, which St. Paul rejected with highest disdain (Rom. 3.8.) Not as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm, that we say, let us do evil that good may come thereof, whose damnation is just. The glory of the free grace of God will be manifested in the pardoning of our sin, come therefore (say some) let us sin our fill, that so the immeasurableness of the Lords goodness and mercy may appear. Woe to those who make such inferences, their damnation is just. To do evil upon any hopes of good by it (though it be the glory of God) subjects to the worst evil of suffering, damnation. Others choose sin; Why? They look some good will come by it, that is, some profit. If we strain our consciences to do this, we may get or keep favour with men; if we do this evil, it may gain us acceptance in the world. Many choose evil, because in doing so, they swim with the stream, and comply with the many, or as the Apostle speakes, with the course of this world; these choose evil, because they would be in the fashion of the most, they consider which way the world is like to go, and set themselves to go that way.