The application of redemption

This is the reason why the Lord cannot endure the least appearance of these desperate pangs, as deeply injurious to the Honour of his Name, and that in the greatest Excellency, Isa. 40. 27. Why sayest thou O Jacob, and speakest thou O Israel, my way is hid from the Lord, and my Judgment is passed over of my God? Let no more such words be heard, the Lord cannot endure to hear you speak so, or to have you think so; you cast the most vile unsufferable indignity upon the Lord that may be. You drooping discouraged hearts, you think it is the loathsomeness of your own sins, the vileness and unworthiness of your own persons that you look at in all those dreadful complaints you make. Is there water enough in the Sea to cleanse this sink of hellish rebellions in this wretched Nature? Can such loathsome abominations of so deep a dye, of so long continuance, committed against so much Light, Grace, committed against knowledge ⟨p. 32⟩and Conscience, against patience and goodness, and that multiplied from day to day, Can these be pardons? Mercy should be accessary to its own dishonour if it should show mercy to such a wretch which hath so abused it. Know assuredly, you speak against the Lord all this while, while you would seem to speak against your own wretched distempers; so the Psalmist Psal. 78. 19. Yea (they not only sinned more, and provoked God, as in the former verses, but) they spake against God, saying, Can God prepare a Table in the Wilderness? You blaspheme and speak against his Power, which is not able to work it; against his Wisdom, which cannot contrive it; against his Mercy, which is not willing, or not able to succour you: It was the greatest sin that ever Cain committed, when he said his sin was greater than could be forgiven, Gen. 4. Then thy heart is more sinful than God can be merciful, Satan more able to damn thee than God is able to save thee; then God is no God, and Christ is no Christ, and the Spirit no Comforter; yea, this is to make the Devil, which is the worst of all Creatures, and Sin which is no Creature, but weakness, and worse than the Devil himself, to be above God, and the Lord Jesus, and the blessed Spirit of Grace; worse than which blasphemy, Hell it self can hardly afford any. Hear therefore and fear, and for ever abhor that such thoughts should once come into your minds, such words proceed out of your mouths.