Sermons preached

(3.) The Holiness and Purity of God, which inclineth him to hate Evil, and love that which is good. God excelling in Holiness himself, loveth the Virtue and Holiness of his Creature, Prov. 11. 20. For how can he be imagined but to love his own Image? And as Goodness and Holiness are loved by him, so he hateth the Workers of Iniquity, Psal. 5. 5. and abhorreth those that despise that which is most glorious in Himself, his Holiness. And then, if God loveth the Good, and hateth the Evil, he will express this in answerable Effects, Good with Life, and Evil with Death.

(3.) The Holiness and Purity of God, which inclineth him to hate Evil, and love that which is good. God excelling in Holiness himself, loveth the Vertue and Holiness of his Creature, Prov. 11. 20. For how can he be imagined but to love his own Image? And as Goodness and Holiness are loved by him, so he hateth the Workers of Iniquity, Psal. 5. 5. and abhorreth those that despise that which is most glorious in Himself, his Holiness. And then, if God loveth the Good, and hateth the Evil, he will express this in answerable Effects, Good with Life, and Evil with Death.

In short, The Difference between Good and Evil is not more naturally known, than it is naturally known that the one is to be punished, the other rewarded. Whether we consider the Wisdom of God, which sorteth and joins all things according to their natural Order; and therefore Sin, which is a Moral Evil, is joined with Sufferings, a Natural Evil, that is, a feeling of something painful to Nature, and afflictive to it: Or the Justice of God, which dealeth differently with Men that differ in themselves: Or the Holiness of God, who therefore will express his Love to the Good in making them happy, and his Detestation of the Wicked in the Misery of their Punishment.