Spiritual whoredom discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons assembled…Spirituall vvhordome discovered in a sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons assembled…

Gods Israel sins against more light, and Gods Israel sins against more love, then all the earth besides.

First, Israel sins against more light, they know more then all the world knows.

1. Of God. God reveals more of himself unto his Church,¹ ⟨p. 16⟩then he doth to all the nations upon the earth. In Judah is God known &c.² They know more of his names and attributes then the rest of the world do, his name is great in Israel: his holiness, his justice, his mercy, his faithfulness, his omnipotence, his omnipresence, his omniscience &c. These he makes known to and in his Church, more then to any of, or all the nations in the world. God mentions it as an high favour unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; I appeared unto them, by the name of God Almighty: an higher favour, that he made himself known to his seed by the name Jehovah: ³God shines forth in his Church in the brightness and dearness of all his glorious attributes: and this is an high aggravation of Israels sin and Apostasy. Howbeit then when ye knew not God, ye did service to them which by nature are no Gods. ⁴But now after that ye have known God, how turn ye again? &c. This was a defection for which there could be no Apology made: for if the knowledge of God by the book of the creature, where Gods name is to be spelled out but by dark and broken Characters, be sufficient to leave the Gentiles [Greek or Hebrew] without Apology or excuse,