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A Divine Cordial
A divine cordial, or, The transcendent privilege of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...A divine cordial, or, The transcendent priviledge of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1663
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. The sins of others work for good, as they make us more earnest in working out our salvation. When we see wicked men take such pains for Hell, this makes us more industrious for Heaven*. The wicked have nothing to encourage them, yet they sin; they venture shame and disgrace, they break through all oppositions; Scripture is against them, and Conscience is against them, there is a flaming sword in their way, yet they sin. Lam. 5.9. We gat our bread with the peril of our lives. Sinners eat the bread of wickedness with the peril of their souls. Godly hearts seeing the wicked thus mad for the forbidden fruit, and hackneying our themselves in the Devils service, are the more emboldened and quickened in the ways of God, they will take Heaven as it were by storm. The wicked are swift ⟨p. 56⟩Dromedaries in sin, Jer. 2.23. and do we creep like Snails in Religion? shall impure sinners do the Devil more service, than we do Christ? shall they make more hast to a Prison, than we do to a Kingdom? are they never weary of sinning, and are we weary of praying? have not we a better Master than they? are not the paths of virtue pleasant? is not there joy in the way of duty, and Heaven at the end? The activity of the sons of Belial in sin, is a spur to the Godly to make them mend their pace, and run the faster to Heaven.
5. The sins of others work for good, as they make us more earnest in working out our salvation. When we see wicked men take such pains for Hell, this makes us more industrious for Heaven*. The wicked have nothing to encourage them, yet they sin; they venture shame and disgrace, they break through all oppositions; Scripture is against them, and Conscience is against them, there is a flaming sword in their way, yet they sin. Lam. 5.9. We gat our bread with the peril of our lives. Sinners eat the bread of wickednesse with the pe•il of their souls. Godly hearts seeing the wicked thus mad for the forbidden fruit, and hacknying our themselves in the Devils service, are the more emboldned and quickned in the wayes of God, they will take Heaven as it were by storm. The wicked are swift