Eleventhly, Wicked men in disquiet of soul for sin, they are prodigal and free in promising to leave sin whilst trouble is upon them, but when trouble is over, they run into those sins for which they were troubled with more vehement eagerness and desire: This is expressed unto you in Deut. 5. 27, 28. verses. Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our 1God shall say, and speak thou unto us, and all that the Lord our God shall say unto thee, we will hear, and do it. And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and the Lord said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, they have well said of which they have spoken. When the people heard the terrible manner of God's delivering of the Law, in thunderings and lightnings, they made Moses a large promise, What ever God commands us by thee, we will observe to do it. But saith God in v. 29. O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and their Children for ever. And it is observable that when his trouble was a little over, the people were worse then ever they were before, they fell to murmuring after, and murmured ten times against that God that had ⟨p. 178⟩delivered them. This is the character of wicked men, that when trouble of conscience disquiets them, their sins remain on them, O how they will promise, what men they will be! they will turn a new life, and they will never be as they have been; and yet let their trouble be allayed, and you shall see that this restraint of their consciences, shall put them on more eagerness to commit sin, then ever they did in all their life time before: Mens sins are compared to an Oven, Hosea 7. Fire dispersed into the Air doth not burn so fierce, but in an Oven it burns fierce. Wicked men, when sin is kept in their hearts, through disquiet of soul for sin, when this fire hath vent it will burn with more fierceness and more rage; when conscience shall dam up a sin, that trouble is over, and conscience is gotten over the dam, sin doth prevail on the soul with more eagerness and more prevalency. In a godly man it is otherwise; when disquiet of soul is over for sin, a godly man detains an awe of running into that sin again; though trouble be over, yet he remembers how he was troubled; I confess I do remember what it is to lie under the weight and burden, and guilt of sin;
Eleventhly, Wicked men in disquiet of soul for sin, they are prodigal and free in promising to leave sin whilst trouble is upon them, but when trouble is over, they run into those sins for which they were troubled with more vehement eagernesse and desire: This is expressed unto you in Deut. 5. 27, 28. verses. Go thou neer, and hear all that the Lord our 1God shall say, and speak thou unto us, and all that the Lord our God shall say unto thee, we will hear, and do it. And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and the Lord said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, they have wel said of which they have stoken. When the people heard the terrible manner of God's delivering of the Law, in thundrings and lightnings, they made Moses a large promise, What ever God commands us by thee, we will observe to do it. But saith God in v. 29. O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandements always, that it might be well with them and their Children for ever. And it is observable that when his trouble was a little over, the people were worse then ever they were before, they fell to murmuring after, and murmured ten times against that God that had ⟨p. 178⟩delivered them. This is the character of wicked men, that when trouble of conscience disquiets them, their sins remain on them, O how they will promise, what men they will be! they will turn a new life, and they will never be as they have been; and yet let their trouble be allayed, and you shall see that this restraint of their consciences, shall put them on more eagernesse to commit sin, then ever they did in all their life time before: Mens sins are compared to an Oven, Hesea 7. Fire disperst into the Air doth not burn so fierce, but in an Oven it burns fierce. Wicked men, when sin is kept in their hearts, through disquiet of soul for sin, when this fire hath vent it will burn with more fiercenesse and more rage; when conscience shall dam up a sin, that trouble is over, and conscience is gotten over the dam, sin doth prevail on the soul with more eagernesse and more prevalency. In a godly man it is otherwise; when disquiet of soul is over for sin, a godly man detains an awe of running into that sin again; though trouble be over, yet he remembers how he was troubled; I confesse I do remember what it is to lie under the weight and burthen, and guilt of sin;
- 1Deut. 5. 27, 28.
