Our ignorance of God breeds the ignorance of our own hearts, and the hidden ways of wickedness, and the cunning conveyances of corrupt distempers which are there in Psal. 14. 1. 2. The fool hath said in his heart there is no God, and then it follows they are become abominable he makes bones of no sins at all; for herein lies the spiritualness or spiritual evil of sins and that hidden poison and malignity of the corruption of our natures, that they jostle professedly against the Almighty so far as he is pleased to communicate himself unto us in the ways of his Holiness and goodness. Thus the blasphemer is said to pierce God by his oaths, Levit. 24. 11. and the wicked are said to walk contrary to him, Levit. 26. to […] him, to weary him, to load him, while then we see not him whom we do oppose by our sins, no wonder that we neither see nor are sensible of the sins, by which we do oppose him. Whereas could we grope after the Almighty as the Apostle professeth we may, because he is not far from any of us, nay in him we live and move in every spiritual action of our minds and hearts. So that did but a wicked man, or could he perceive that in every thought of his mind, motion of his will, stirring of any affection, that he did jostle with the infinite Holiness and purity of the Lord, who meets with him in every action and motion of his mind and will, It were able to sink the soul of a sinful creature, and make him sit down confounded in the sight of the loathsomeness of his own […] nature, as being wholly opposite to so infinite a good in all he is or doth; thus it was with Job when the Lord had schooled him out of the whirlwind, & discovered the surpassing excellency of his Glory to him, he puts him beyond all pleas of his own worth, Job. 40. 4. Behold I am vile yea more expressly he gives this as the reason of the discovery of his own wretchedness, I ⟨p. 116⟩have heard of thee by the hearing of the Ear, but now mine eye sees thee, wherefore I abhor my self in dust and ashes, Job, 42. 4. So it was with the Corinth who was convinced by the preaching of the Word, he saw God before he saw the secret vileness of his own heart presented to his view, 1 Cor. 14. 24. God is in you of a truth. Search we into the holy Law of God, and examine our hearts and lives thereby, and see how far they stand guilty of the breach thereof;
Our ignorance of God breeds the ignorance of our own hearts, and the hidden waies of wickedness, and the cunning conveyances of corrupt distempers which are there in Psal. 14. 1. 2. The fool hath said in his heart there is no God, and then it followes they are become abominable he makes bones of no sins at al; for herein lies the spiritualness or spiritual evil of sins and that hidden poyson and malignity of the corruption of our natures, that they justle professedly against the Almighty so far as he is pleased to communicate himself unto us in the waies of his Holiness and goodness. Thus the blasphemer is said to pierce God by his oaths, Levit. 24. 11. and the wicked are said to walk contrary to him, Levit. 26. to 〈…〉 him, to weary him, to load him, while then we see not him whom we do oppose by our sins, no wonder that we neither see nor are sensible of the sins, by which we do oppose him. Whereas could we grope after the Almighty as the Apostle professeth we may, because he is not far from any of us, nay in him we live and move in every spiritual action of our minds and hearts. So that did but a wicked man, or could he perceive that in every thought of his mind, motion of his wil, stirring of any affection, that he did justle with the infinite Holiness and purity of the Lord, who meets with him in every action and motion of his mind and wil, It were able to sink the soul of a sinful creature, and make him sit down confounded in the sight of the loathsomness of his own 〈…〉 nature, as being wholly opposite to so infinite a good in all he is or doth; thus it was with Job when the Lord had schooled him out of the whirlwind, & discovered the surpassing excellency of his Glory to him, he puts him beyond al pleas of his own worth, Job. 40. 4. Behold I am vile yea more expresly he gives this as the reason of the discovery of his own wretchedness, I ⟨p. 116⟩have heard of thee by the hearing of the Ear, but now mine eye sees thee, wherefore I abhor my self in dust and ashes, Job, 42. 4. So it was with the Corinth who was convinced by the preaching of the Word, he saw God before he saw the secret vileness of his own heart presented to his view, 1 Cor. 14. 24. God is in you of a truth. Search we into the holy Law of God, and examine our hearts and lives thereby, and see how far they stand guilty of the breach thereof;
