A Body of Practical Divinity

8. Sin is the only thing God hath an antipathy against: God doth not hate a Man because he is poor, or despised in the World; you do not hate your Friend because he is sick; but that which draws forth the keens of God's hatred, is sin, Jer. ⟨p. 78⟩44.4. O do not this abominable thing which I hate. And sure, if the sinner dies under God's hatred, he cannot be admitted into the Celestial Mansions; will God let him live with him whom he hates; God will never lay a Viper in his bosom; the Feathers of the Eagle will not mix with the Feathers of other •owls. God will not mix and incorporate with a sinner. Till sin be removed, there is no coming where God is.

8. Sin is the only thing God hath an antipathy against: God doth not hate a Man because he is poor, or despised in the World; you do not hate your Friend because he is sick; but that which draws forth the keens of God's hatred, is sin, Ier. ⟨p. 78⟩44.4. O do not this abominable thing which I hate. And sure, if the sinner dies under God's hatred, he cannot be admitted into the Celestial Mansions; will God let him live with him whom he hates; God will never lay a Viper in his bosom; the Feathers of the Eagle will not mix with the Feathers of other •owls. God will not mix and incorporate with a sinner. Till sin be removed, there is no coming where God is.

III. See the evil of Sin in the Price paid for it; it cost the Blood of God to expiate it. O Man (saith St. Austin) consider the greatness of thy sin by the greatness of the price paid for sin. All the Princes on Earth, or Angels in Heaven, could not satisfy for sin, only Christ. Nay, Christ's active Obedience was not enough to make atonement for sin, but he must suffer upon the Cross; for without blood is no remission,