The application of redemption

Out of mens Atheism and ignorance this is not thought on, and therefore men think their sins little, nor are they apprehensive of that infinite wrong that they do to the holy and infinite Majesty of the blessed God.

Out of mens Atheism and ignorance this is not thought on, and therefore men thinke their sins little, nor are they apprehensive of that infinite wrōng that they do to the holy and infinite Majesty of the blessed God.

Besides this wrong that is common to all sins, there be some especially open and scandalous that become out of measure sinful.

Besides this wrong that is common to al sins, there be some especially open and scandalous that become out of measure sinful.

Committed against many mercies, against many §1means; against many mercies wherewith God hath […] and allured them, that he might have overcome their unkind hearts, wth his tender compassions, had they but a spark of any good nature or ingenuity within them. Thus they sin against more of God, & therefore their sin becomes unmeasurably […] against the bowels of a Father that hath yearned towards them: the blood of a Christ that hath been shed for them; the tears of a saviour that have been wept over them, Oh that thou hadst known in this ⟨p. 260⟩thy day; the consolation and intimations of the spirit who hath striven and entreated, Oh do not do so and sin against God, and yet impudently, presumptuously and pertinaciously thou wouldest break through all these armies of compassions, to commit that sin that will be thy ruin, how vile thy carriage and how just thy plague. Thus Nathan pleads with David when he would lay open the loathsomeness of his evil before him,