Sermons preached

Now then without a manifest reproach to the Holy God, we cannot imagine he should admit Sinners into an intimate Communion with him. Thou hatest all the Workers of Iniquity, Psal. 5. 5. God said to the Prophet, (Jer. 15. 19.) Let them return unto thee, but return not thou to them. God will not return to us in our Sins, but we must come off from our Sins to him.

Now then without a manifest reproach to the Holy God, we cannot imagine he should admit Sinners into an intimate Communion with him. Thou hatest all the Workers of Iniquity, Psal. 5. 5. God said to the Prophet, (Ier. 15. 19.) Let them return unto thee, but return not thou to them. God will not return to us in our Sins, but we must come off from our Sins to him.

(2.) We are freed from the great Blemish of our Natures. Sin defaced the Image of God in us; Rom. 3. 23. All have ⟨p. 52⟩sinned, and come short of the Glory of God. We lost not only the Favour of God, but the Image of God; the great Excellency of our Nature was eclipsed and defaced. Now the Plaster will not be as broad as the Sore, nor our Reparation by Christ correspondent to our Loss by Adam, if our Nature be not healed, and the Image of God restored in us. If Adam had only left us guilty, the Pardon of Sin had been enough; but he conveyed an evil Nature, and therefore we must be turned from our Sins, as well as pardoned, otherwise Christ would not restore all that Adam took away, Psal. 69. 4