A Body of Practical Divinity

5. When a Man sins against express Comminations and Threatenings. God hath thundered out Threatenings against such Sins. Psal. 66.21. God shall wound the hairy Scalp of such an one as goes on still in his Trespasses. Yet tho God set the point of his Sword to the Breast of a Sinner, yet he will commit Sin. The Pleasure of Sin doth more delight him, than the Threatenings affright him. He, like the Leviathan, laughs at the shaking of a Spear, Job 41.29. Nay, he derides God's Threatenings. Isa. 5.19. Let him make speed and hasten his Work that we may see it. We have heard much what God intends to do, and of Judgment approaching, we would fain see it. For Men to see the Flaming Sword of God's Threatenings brandished, yet to strengthen themselves in Sin, is in an high manner to sin against Illumination and Conviction.

5. When a Man sins against express Comminations and Threatnings. God hath thundered out Threatnings against such Sins. Psal. 66.21. God shall wound the hairy Scalp of such an one as goes on still in his Trespasses. Yet tho God set the point of his Sword to the Breast of a Sinner, yet he will commit Sin. The Pleasure of Sin doth more delight him, than the Threatnings affright him. He, like the Liviathan, laughs at the shaking of a Spear, Iob 41.29. Nay, he derides God's Threatnings. Isa. 5.19. Let him make speed and hasten his Work that we may see it. We have heard much what God intends to do, and of Judgment approrching, we would fain see it. For Men to see the Flaming Sword of God's Threatnings brandished, yet to strengthen themse•ves in Sin, is in an high manner to sin against Illumination and Conviction.

6. When a Man sins under Affliction. God doth not only thunder by Threatening, but hath let his Thunderbolt fall; he hath inflicted Judgments on a Person, he may read his Sin in his Punishment, yet he sins: His Sin was Uncleanness; he hath wasted his Strength as well as his Estate; he hath had a Fit of Apoplexy, yet tho