1. The Dishonour you do to God, to all the Persons in the Godhead. To the Father, by making void the whole Plot of Redemption. This was the eternal Project and Design, as it were, of God the Father, the wise Counsel his Wisdom found out to remedy the Fall of Man. Jesus Christ was ordained before all Worlds, to redeem us from our vain Conversation; 1 Pet. 1.20. Who verily was fore-ordained before the Foundation of the World. The Lord projected this way of Restitution from all Eternity, that this Course should be taken to destroy Sin: Now will you go about to make all this void? Then you wrong God the Son, and that many ways: You disparage the worth of his Price, as if it was not sufficient to purchase Grace, and so seek to put your Redeemer to shame: Nay, you disparage the Purity of his Person, for you were redeemed with the Blood of Christ, as a Lamb without spot and blemish. Nay, you disparage the Greatness and Extremity of his Sufferings: It cost him dear to purchase Grace and Deliverance from Sin, and you slight it, and make nothing of it. Then you rob him of the Greatness of his Purchase, he bought us with this great Price, that we might not be our own, and live to our Lusts. Such as are bought with Money, are theirs who bought them: 1 Cor. 6.20. For ye are bought with a Price, therefore glorify God in your Body, and in your Spirit, which are his. Did Christ pay our Debts, and shall we, like desperate Prodigals, do nothing but increase them by our Sin? Then you disparage the Holy Ghost, the Spirit whom Christ doth shed abroad to accomplish his Work: 2 Cor. 3.17. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty. The great Work of ⟨p. 169⟩the Holy Ghost is, to free us from the Bondage of Sin. Have you the Assistance of such a Spirit, and can you not resist carnal Motions? And are you taken with every vain Delight, a Fashion, a sensual Bait? Thus consider what a dishonour it is to God to let Sin live, if Christ died to redeem us. You do as much as in you lieth to defeat the Project of God the Father, the Purchase of the Son, and the Work of the Spirit.
1. The Dishonour you do to God, to all the Persons in the Godhead. To the Father, by making void the whole Plot of Redemption. This was the eternal Project and Design, as it were, of God the Father, the wise Counsel his Wisdom found out to remedy the Fall of Man. Jesus Christ was ordained before all Worlds, to redeem us from our vain Conversation; 1 Pet. 1.20. Who verily was fore-ordained before the Foundation of the World. The Lord projected this way of Restitution from all Eternity, that this Course should be taken to destroy Sin: Now will you go about to make all this void? Then you wrong God the Son, and that many ways: You disparage the worth of his Price, as if it was not sufficient to purchase Grace, and so seek to put your Redeemer to shame: Nay, you disparage the Purity of his Person, for you were redeemed with the Blood of Christ, as a Lamb without spot and blemish. Nay, you disparage the Greatness and Extremity of his Sufferings: It cost him dear to purchase Grace and Deliverance from Sin, and you slight it, and make nothing of it. Then you rob him of the Greatness of his Purchase, he bought us with this great Price, that we might not be our own, and live to our Lusts. Such as are bought with Money, are theirs who bought them: 1 Cor. 6.20. For ye are bought with a Price, therefore glorify God in your Body, and in your Spirit, which are his. Did Christ pay our Debts, and shall we, like desperate Prodigals, do nothing but encrease them by our Sin? Then you disparage the Holy Ghost, the Spirit whom Christ doth shed abroad to accomplish his Work: 2 Cor. 3.17. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty. The great Work of ⟨p. 169⟩the Holy Ghost is, to free us from the Bondage of Sin. Have you the Assistance of such a Spirit, and can you not resist carnal Motions? And are you taken with every vain Delight, a Fashion, a sensual Bait? Thus consider what a dishonour it is to God to let Sin live, if Christ died to redeem us. You do as much as in you lieth to defeat the Project of God the Father, the Purchase of the Son, and the Work of the Spirit.
