A plain discourse upon uprightness showing the properties and privileges of an upright man…A plain discourse upon uprightness shewing the properties and priviledges of an upright man…

The presumptuous sinner adds the contempt of God to his sin, and so is said to si• with an high hand, Numb. 15. 30. (th• first place (I take it) that speaks of such) But the soul that doth presumptuously, r• proacheth the Lord, and shall be utterly o• ⟨p. 149⟩off, and no sacrifice admitted for him: which interprets that, Heb. 10. 26. If we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. And both opposed to sinning ignorantly, n•d yet not every sin of knowledge, a presumptuous sin: but when a man knows it, but cares not, heeds not God, or his will, but lifts up an high hand against him, and will venture. ¹It is one thing to sin willingly, another thing to sin wilfully. There is of the will in most sins, but not the whole will. There is a predominant motion of the will toward it, but there is in it an habitual hatred of it. Rom. 7. 20. Now if I do what I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. There is in every sin an interpretative contempt of God; but I conceive to create a Presumptuous sin, there must be actual presumption and contempt of God; whereof certainly that man was guilty, that was stoned to death for gathering sticks on the Sabbath day; and thereupon his Tragedy is related immediately upon the Law against presumptuous sinners, Numb. 15. An upright man hath a radical hatred of sin, and he that hates sin, can scarce sin presumptuously.

1. 1Sin is never said to be done with an high hand, but when there is a full convincement a fie• consent, and absolute allowance, and this never after Conversion. Mr. Capel.