The truly blessed man

2. That in thus doing, men do but lay in for the more awful distress of Conscience afterwards. The truth of this will be made manifest by the following Conclusions.

1. That all sins, and peculiarly more •old Transgressions, are displeasing to God. Sin is of its own nature contrary to his spotless Holiness, for which reason he cannot endure it, Hab. 1.13. Jer 44.4. And therefore he cannot but abhor it wheresoever he sees it; it is the very thing for which he loathes wicked men; he hates them not as his Creatures, but the filthiness they have contracted by Sin, procureth his anger against them, Jer. 2.17. And as for his own Children, though he hath loved their persons in Christ, and is reconciled to them in the New-Covenant, yet he approves not their Sins, but taketh them ill, 2 Sam. 11. ult. And although he pitieth their infirmities, which unavoidably attend their best endeavours to Serve him, yet if at any time they fall into more grossly defiling Sins, he will be angry at them. If Hezekiah grows proud and ingrateful after a signal deliverance, there will be Wrath come out for it, 2 Chron. 32.25. And there is something peculiarly aggravating in such Sins, 1 Kings 11.9

1. That all sins, and peculiarly more •old Transgressions, are displeasing to God. Sin is of its own nature contrary to his spotless Holiness, for which reason he cannot endure it, Hab. 1.13. Jer 44.4. And therefore he cannot but abhor it wheresoever he sees it; it is the very thing for which he loaths wicked men; he hates them not as his Creatures, but the filthiness they have contracted by Sin, procureth his anger against them,