A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast,…A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast,…

4. The book of mans conscience, Rom. 2. 14, 15. doth speak of God to all Nations, though now by reason of our sinful blindness and dullness, that book be uncorrected, and dim-printed, written with white and watery Ink, so that we see not God distinctly in it; yet all these four serve to make men without excuse, because, when they know God, they glorify him not as God, neither are thankful, Rom. 1. 20. But this condemneth us to whom there is laid open a better, and fairer, and learneder piece, Psal. 19. 7.

4. The booke of mans conscience, Rom. 2. 14, 15. doth speake of God to all Nations, though now by reason of our sinfull blindnesse and dulnesse, that book be uncorrected, and dimme-printed, written with white and watery Ink, so that we see not God distinctly in it; yet all these foure serve to make men without excuse, because, when they know God, they glorifie him not as God, neither are thankefull, Rom. 1. 20. But this condemneth us to whom there is laid open a better, and fairer, and learneder piece, Psal. 19. 7.

Use. The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the Soul.

Use. The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the Soule.

Yea, if Christ in the Gospel had not come to us, we should have had no sin (no evangelic guilt of unbelief) but now we have ([Greek or Hebrew]) no shift of Law, no cloak for our sin. Hence, though this Island be in a more blessed condition, by reason that the Sun shineth in his strength and light in our Meridian, (God hath not done so to every Nation,