The Sincere Convert

For 1. In every sin thou dost strike God, and fling a dagger at the heart of God. 2. In every sin thou dost spite against God: for if there were but one only thing wherein a man could do his friend a displeasure, was not here spite seen if he did that thing? Now tell me, hath not the Lord been a good friend unto thee? Tell me, ⟨p. 227⟩wherein hath he grieved thee? and tell me, in what one thing canst thou please the devil, and do God a displeasure, but by sin? yet O hard heart thou makest nothing of it; but consider thirdly, in every sin thou dost dethrone God, and setteth thy self above God: for in every sin, this question is put, whose will shall be done, Gods will or mans? Now man by sin sets up his own will above the Lords, and so kicks God, (blessed for ever, adored of millions of Saints and Angels) as filth under his feet. What, will this break your hearts?

For 1. In every sin thou dost strike God, and fling a dagger at the heart of God. 2. In every sin thou dost spight against God: for if there were but one onely thing wherein a man could doe his friend a displeasure, was not here spight seene if he did that thing? Now tell me, hath not the Lord beene a good friend unto thee? Tell mee, ⟨p. 227⟩wherein hath hee grieved thee? and tell me, in what one thing canst thou please the devill, and doe God a displeasure, but by sinne? yet O hard heart thou makest nothing of it; but consider thirdly, in every sin thou dost disthrone God, and setteth thy selfe above God: for in every sinne, this question is put, whose will shall be done, Gods will or mans? Now man by sinne sets up his owne will above the Lords, and so kicks God, (blessed for ever, adored of millions of Saints and Angels) as filth under his feet. What, will this breake your hearts?

Consider then of Gods wrath; the certainty of it, the unsupportablenesse of it, how that dying in thy sins, and secure estate, it shall fall; for when men cry,