The application of redemption

Al these pleas issue from the Atheism, of the heart of the sons of men, whereby they neither know God nor themselves; we shall pursue them in, their places and order, but briefly.

Al these pleas issue from the Atheism, of the heart of the sons of men, wherby they neither know God nor themselves; we shal persue them in, their places and order, but briefly.

Such is the deluded folly of mens minds, that they §1confine the Almighty to their compass, and therefore Sottishly conceive that the Lord is so attent to the great affairs of heaven and the place of his holiness, and the Glory of his own name, that he looks not after the things here below nor regards the carriages of the sons of men, that creep up and down like so many poor Ants upon the face of the Earth. So that either the Lord hath covered himself in thick clouds, and retired himself to the […] of his Glory that he cannot see or else he attends matters of greater moment and Consequence to order in his infinite wisdom, and therefore lays these aside without any regard. And if once this forgery finds entertainment it sets open a gap to any kind of profaneness, makes men careless and fearless what they do because God regards not what is don, 2 Pet. 3. 1. 2. So those scorners which walk after their own lusts, saying where is the promise of his coming, for since the Fathers fell a sleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation, […] ye not see how men provoke God and prosper? and hath it not been so in all ages, […] wicked & ungodly continue in sinful courses & yet succeed according to their own content. It was so in the former ages, it went best with the worst men, it is so in this, and will be so to the end. the Lord looks not after the mean occasions of men upon earth ⟨p. 176⟩finds himself employment in the affairs of Heaven; it matters not what the desert of our sins be, we shall never feel what they do deserve; so those rulers,