Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

There are many inward troubles that make them groan, but none more than this, the unbelief they find in their own hearts. This sin justly costs them more trouble than other sins; because it is the root from which other sins do spring; a root of bitterness, bearing wormwood and gall to the embittering of their souls. For,

There are many inward troubles that make them groan, but none more than this, the unbelief they find in their own hearts. This sin justly costs them more trouble than other sins; because it is the root from which other sins do spring; a root of bitterness, bearing wormwood and gall to the imbittering of their souls. For,

First: The remains of unbelief in the Saints greatly dishonour God; and what is a great dishonour to God, cannot but be a great grief and burden to them. For look as faith gives God special honour above all other graces, so unbelief in a special manner, both wrongs and grieves him above all other sins. Unbelief in dominion makes God a liar, 1 Joh. 5. 10. and even the relics thereof in Believers, doth shake their assent to his truths and promises, and nourishes a vile suspicion of them in the heart; and how do those base jealousies reflect upon his honour? Certainly it cannot but be a grief to gracious hearts to see God dishonoured by others, Psal. 119. 36. and a much greater ⟨p. 138⟩to dishonour him our selves, hinc illae lacrimae. Upon this ground we may justly cry out and say with tears, Lord help our unbelief.

First: The remains of unbelief in the Saints greatly dishonour God; and what is a great dishonour to God, cannot but be a great grief and burden to them. For look as faith gives God special honour above all other graces, so unbelief in a special manner, both wrongs and grieves him above all other sins. Unbelief in dominion makes God a liar,