4. How violent are the wicked in 1ways of sin! violent for their malicious lusts, Prov. 1. 16. Their feet run to evil*. Violent for their unclean lusts. Amnon offered violence to his Sister, he would have his lust, though it cost him his life, Sinners tire out themselves in the Devil's drudgery, Jer 9. 5. They meary themselves to commit iniquity. They are out of breath with sin, yet not out of love with sin, Jer. 50. 38. They are mad upon their Idols. So violent were the Jews, that they would spare no cost in ⟨p. 138⟩their Idolatrous worship, Isa. 46. 6. They lavish gold out of the bag. So fiercely were they bent upon Idolatry, that they would sacrifice their Sons and Daughters to their Idol god•, Jer. 32. 35. They built the high places of B•al to cause their Sons and Daughters to pass through the fire. Were men thus violent for their lusts and Idols; and shall not we be violent for a Kingdom? Nay, you that are now ingrafted into Christ, how violent perhaps have some of you been formerly in evil? how did you once spend your selves in a sinful way! like Paul, who before his conversion breathed out threatening and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord, Act. 9. 1. Perhaps you have been violent in drawing others to sin, you have been tempters to them; and perhaps some of them whom you have seduced to sin, are now crying out of you in Hell, and saying, They had never come there if it had not been for your example; should not the consideration of this humble you? should not this make you the more violent in Religion, that you may bring some glory to God before you die? should not you be as industrious to save ⟨p. 139⟩souls, as you have been to damn them? Were you to live to the age of Methusalem, you could never do God service sufficient for the dishonour you have done to him.
4. How violent are the wicked in 1waies of sin! violent for their malicious lusts, Prov. 1. 16. Their feet run to evil*. Violent for their unclean lusts. Amnon offered violence to his Sister, he would have his lust, though it cost him his life, Sinners tire out themselves in the Devil's drudgery, Jer 9. 5. They meary themselves to commit iniquity. They are out of breath with sin, yet not out of love with sin, Jer. 50. 38. They are mad upon their Idols. So violent were the Jews, that they would spare no cost in ⟨p. 138⟩their Idolatrous worship, Isa. 46. 6. They lavish gold out of the bag. So fiercely were they bent upon Idolatry, that they would sacrifice their Sons and Daughters to their Idol god•, Jer. 32. 35. They built the high places of B•al to cause their Sons and Daughters to pass thorow the fire. Were men thus violent for their lusts and Idols; and shall not we be violent for a Kingdom? Nay, you that are now ingrafted into Christ, how violent perhaps have some of you been formerly in evil? how did you once spend your selves in a sinful way! like Paul, who before his conversion breathed out threatning and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord, Act. 9. 1. Perhaps you have been violent in drawing others to sin, you have been tempters to them; and perhaps some of them whom you have seduced to sin, are now crying out of you in Hell, and saying, They had never come there if it had not been for your example; should not the consideration of this humble you? should not this make you the more violent in Religion, that you may bring some glory to God before you die? should not you be as industrious to save ⟨p. 139⟩souls, as you have been to damn them? Were you to live to the age of Methusalem, you could never do God service sufficient for the dishonour you have done to him.
- 14. Motive.
- *Quòd utro•ue pede •tuntur, notatur & •estinatio & impetus. Car•wr.
