The application of redemption

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, 2 Sam. 12. 7. 8. 9. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel I anointed thee King over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul, and I gave thee thy masters house and thy masters wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and the house of Judah, and if that had been too little I would moreover have given thee such and such things. Wherefore hast thou despised the command of the Lord? The heart of the holy man sunk down in sorrow, I have sinned. Yea these coals of fire if gathered and heaped up I mean these compassions rightly considered and weighed, and laid upon the heart they are able almost to melt the most flinty disposition, Jud. 2. 1. 2. 3. So the Angel overbore the rebellious spirits of the Israelites, I made you to go up out of Egypt and have brought you into the land which I sware unto your Fathers, and I said I will never break my Covenant with you, and ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land, you shall throw down their altars, but ye have not obeyed my voice why have ye done this? and it came to pass when he spake these words unto all the Children of Israel that the people lift up their voices and wept. This brake their hearts all in pieces, though perverse and rebellious, they ceased answering and fell to weeping, their tears and mourning were instead of words they would return in their defence.