The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

3. They that encourage themselves to sin boldly on account of Gods mercy. Instead of being melted into Godly Sorrow, on consideration that God is so good and gracious, which is the kindly effect of it in the hearts of the Godly, they are emboldened to sin by it: Was there not such a spirit in them? Jer. 7. 9, 10. and them, Psal. 50. 21. And if we observe the great allowances that many under the Gospel, give themselves in their immoralities, and the great security and confidence which for all they nourish themselves in, we shall discover them to be built on this rotten foundation; and if their tongues do not, their lives do plainly utter that, Rom. 6. 1. Let us continue in sin that grace may abound; as if the kindness to man proclaimed in the Gospel, were nothing else but an indulgence granted to the Children of men, to live in all manner of licentiousness. Be we then warned to beware of thus abusing this precious truth, in which God ⟨p. 266⟩expresseth his rich mercy to sinful men: And therefore. Consider,

3. They that encourage themselves to sin boldly on account of Gods mercy. Instead of being melted into Godly Sorrow, on consideration that God is so good and gracious, which is the kindly effect of it in the hearts of the Godly, they are emboldned to sin by it: Was there not such a spirit in them? Jer. 7. 9, 10. and them, Psal. 50. 21. And if we observe the great allowances that many under the Gospel, give themselves in their immoralities, and the great security and confidence which for all they nourish themselves in, we shall discover them to be built on this rotten foundation; and if their tongues do not, their lives do plainly utter that, Rom. 6. 1. Let us continue in sin that grace may abound; as if the kindness to man proclaimed in the Gospel, were nothing else but an indulgence granted to the Children of men, to live in all manner of licenciousness. Be we then warned to beware of thus abusing this precious truth, in which God