A77851:78
A treatise of self-judging, in order to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper.…
A treatise of self-judging, in order to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Together with a sermon of the general day of judgement. / By Anthony Burgess pastor of Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire.A treatise of self-judging, in order to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Together with a sermon of the generall day of judgement. / By Anthony Burgesse pastor of Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire.
London: printed by J.H. for T. Underhill, 1658
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
2. Another ground why God may even break the bones, yea the heart as it were of his own children when offending him, is from the many aggravations that are to be found in the sins of the godly, so that the like cannot be found in the transgressions ⟨p. 92⟩of the wicked man, insomuch that the offences of the godly do in some respects more displease God, then all the sins of wicked men: As first, when the people of God sin, it is against more experience of the sweetness and comfort by grace, and also of the bitterness of sin, which they have felt in their own souls; and certainly this must highly aggravate thy sin, thou knowest what the songs and joys are, of an heart reconciled to the Father through Christ. Thou knowest how bitter a thing it is for God, to shut thee out of his doors for thy transgressions, to ⟨p. 93⟩give thee children's bread no longer, but to suffer thee to live upon husks: Oh what an aggravation is this to every sin thou fallest in, to remember these experiences: Alas, the wicked when they sin, they never tasted of a better life; they never found any thing sweeter then the creature; therefore they think they do not sin to their loss, and so they have not experimentally felt the terrors of the Lord it may be upon their souls: hence it is no wonder if they eat poison for honey; but for thee who hast been taught all these things upon thy soul, to meddle ⟨p. 94⟩with sin that cost thee so dear; to deprive thy self of that joy and heaven thou hast had: Oh tremble under the approaches of any sin to the•• Christ used this as a motive in his prayer for those who crucified him, Father forgive them, for they know not what they do; but how shall Christ say, forgive thee, who knowest what thou doest: All the experience God hath wrought in thee about holy things, doth sadly aggravate thy evil ways.
2. Another ground why God may even break the bones, yea the heart as it were of his own children when offending him, is from the many aggravations that are to be found in the sinnes of the godly, so that the like cannot be found in the transgressions ⟨p. 92⟩