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,…

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, Psal. 147. 19, 20.) yet by reason of despising salvation in this day-light of the Gospel, we are in a most dangerous condition.

Yea, if Christ in the Gospel had not come to us, we should have had no sinne (no evangelick guilt of unbeleefe) but now wee have (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) no shift of Law, no cloake for our sinne. Hence, though this Island be in a more blessed condition, by reason that the Sunne shineth in his strength and light in our Meridian, (God hath not done so to every Nation, Psal. 147. 19, 20.) yet by reason of despising salvation in this day-light of the Gospel, we are in a most dangerous condition.

1. Because Sodomy is not so heinous a sin as unbelief, and the despising of the Gospel, Matth. 10. 15. For Evangelic unbelief is against the flower and garland (to speak so) of the excellency of God; not only against a Creator, but against a Saviour, and against those most lovely and soul-ravishing attributes of God, his mercy, goodness, free-grace, longanimity, patience, bowels of compassion: and therefore an unbelieving Covenanter with