14. This still further appears, In that all Men naturally resist God and his good Spirit, they fight against God, Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost, as your Fathers did, so do ye. Nay, they are called haters of God, The haters of God (saith David) should have submitted themselves. Ye have both hated me and my Father, 2saith our blessed Lord. What can render Sin more evil, or Man more vile than to be called a Hater of God, 3they are haters of God and despiteful; Their soul, saith the Lord, abhorred me, and my Soul loathed them. Moreover, They are said to be Contemners of God, they even dare God to his Face, and harden their Hearts against him,4 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? ⟨p. 13⟩He saith in his heart, thou wilt not require it; They fear him not, they atheistically deny his Providence, nay, his very being; or wish at least there was no God. And all this is the fruit and effect of Man's Rebellion or of his First Sin.
14. This still further appears, In that all Men naturally resist God and his good Spirit, they fight against God, Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost, as your Fathers did, so do ye. Nay, they are called haters of God, The haters of God (saith David) should have submitted themselves. Ye have both hated me and my Father, 2saith our blessed Lord. What can render Sin more evil, or Man more vile than to be called a Hater of God, 3they are haters of God and despightful; Their soul, saith the Lord, abhorred me, and my Soul loathed them. Moreover, They are said to be Contemners of God, they even dare God to his Face, and harden their Hearts against him,4 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? ⟨p. 13⟩He saith in his heart, thou wilt not require it; They fear him not, they atheistically deny his Providence, nay, his very being; or wish at least there was no God. And all this is the fruit and effect of Man's Rebellion or of his First Sin.
- 1The fearful state of Man by Nature. Acts 7.51.
- 2Joh. 15.24
- 3Rom. 1.30. Zech. 11.8.
- 4Ps. 10.13.
