The Doctrine of Repentance

2. Sin robs God of his due. You injure a man when you do not give him his due. The soul belongs to God, he lays a double claim to it; it is his by creation and purchase: now sin steals the soul from God, and gives the Devil that which of right belongs to God.

2. Sin robs God of his due. You injure a man when you do not give him his due. The soul belongs to God, he laies a double claim to it; it is his by creation and purchase: now sin steals the soul from God, and gives the Devil that which of right belongs to God.

4. Sin is profound ignorance. The¹ School-men say, All sin is founded in ignorance^*; did men know God in his purity and justice, they durst not go on in a course of sinning, Jer. 9. 3. They proceed from evil to evil, and know not me, saith the Lord. Therefore ignorance and lust are joined together, 1 Pet. 1. 14. Ignorance is the womb of lust. Vapours arise most in the night: The black vapours of sin arise most in a dark ignorant soul. Satan casts a mist before a sinner, that he sees not the flaming sword of Gods wrath. The Eagle first rolls himself in the sand, and then flies at the Stag, and by fluttering his wings, so bedusts the Stags ⟨p. 153⟩eyes, that he cannot see, and then he strikes him with his talons^*: So Satan that Eagle or Prince of the Air first blinds men with ignorance^*, and then wounds them with his darts of temptation. Is sin ignorance? there's great cause to repent of ignorance.