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sin_n	holy_a	law_n	transgression_n	3,345	5	10.0391	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78191	A sermon preach'd to the Society for Reformation of Manners in Nottingham Novemb. 24. 1698. By John Barret Minister of the Gospel. Published at the desire of the said Society.	Barret, John, 1631-1713.	1699 (1699)	Wing B910C; ESTC R229513	26,880	64

offence against God a transgression of the holy Law of God our Creator and Redeemer As right sorrow for Sin is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to God 2 Cor. 7.9 So the true hatred of Sin is with respect unto God To have an Aversation from some sinful practices not as forbidden in Gods word but upon other Foreign Accounts v. 9. As such practices would cross our worldly designs and interfere with our carnal interests this will not prove that we hate Sin but only that we love our Credit and Reputation our worldly profit and the like Again some that have no detestation of Sin yet dare not take that liberty in sinning as formerly being checked with a fearful apprehension and expectation of the Punishment threatned and due to Sin 'T is one thing to hate Sin and another to dread the sad and bitter consequents thereof The Conscience of a Natural Man is sometimes startled and awakened while his will is not renew'd his heart not changed 2. Have we an hatred of all and every known Sin A quatenus ad omne If we hate Sin as Sin then it will follow that we hate all Sin known to us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hatred is against the whole kind One that hates a Toad as venemous cannot but hate other Creatures that he knows to be likewise venemous Here is one difference betwixt a Natural and a Regenerate Man viz. A Natural Man may abstain from some Sins though he does not truly hate any Sin which is evident in that he freely alloweth of other Sins he knows are no less forbidden yea he will not part with them But a Regenerate Man though he cannot live here free from Sin yet he does not live in any known Sin for that Sin is the evil he hates and that he would gladly get rid of 3. A real hatred of Sin is abiding and constant This is one difference betwixt Hatred and Anger If one is only angry at another the angry fit may be over in a little time As two Friends may fall out sometimes and yet soon be very good Friends again But where hatred is that admits not of reconciliation And if I be not mistaken Dr. Preston hath this expression 'T is an ill Sign to fall out with Sin and grow Friends again Some indeed under present gripes and pangs of Conscience seem to be for putting away their Lusts But that sick shaking fit is no sooner over than they return to 'em again as the Dog to his vomit 4. Hatred is implacable and deadly It seeks the destruction of that we hate So if we hate Sin indeed we are for pursuing it to the Death We cannot rest while it has a being in us We set our selves against it to mortifie it more and more 5. If we hate Sin indeed we cannot but be moved when we see it breaking forth in others As Lot we shall vex our Souls at the sight and at the thoughts of that abounding wickedness in the World in this our Land And as we have occasion and opportunity we shall reprove Sinners and indeavour to give check to Sin what in us lieth as Psal 75.4 5. I said unto the Fools deal not foolishly and to the wicked lift not up the Horn. How can we say we hate Sin if we care not tho' sinners go on in their Evil ways if we will not endeavour to put a stop to them when we might Use III. This Use with the next Proposition though prepar'd I did but glanse at in the Sermon Preach'd to the Society Be we exhorted to hate Sin And if we do hate it labour after a more intense degree of hatred to have our Hearts more set against Sin O Christians as you love the Lord and as you love your selves and as you love England hate evil 1. If you love the Lord how can you but hate Sin If we have the love of God shall we not then fear to offend him And shall we not hate that which we know to be an Offence to him And shall we not be grieved to see others dishonour and provoke him And shall not our Hearts rise at any indignities offer'd to him As it was with the Prophet Isa 7.13 Will ye weary my God also And if we love him then shall we not hate Sin as that which formerly separated betwixt God and our Souls And as that which would obstruct or interrupt our Communion with him and may provoke him to withdraw may deprive us of his most comforting presence And are we not like to lose the sense of his love if we are abating and more remisse in our hatred of Sin And if we love him then shall we not count his Enemies our Enemies And be heartily displeas'd at the wrongs done to him as at any injuries done to us 2. If you love your own Souls must you not then hate Sin Why you have no such Enemy in all the World again We suffer more by Sin than by all other Enemies Men or Devils All that they can do would but Exercise us not really hurt and endamage our Souls so long as we are not instigated or drawn to Sin by them But this is most certain till we hate Sin we are Enemies to our own Souls We are in league with our Souls utter Enemy And without turning from our Sins we shall die in our Sins Now there is no real turning from Sin without having our Hearts turn'd against it without hating it While the heart goes out secretly after any Lust in Gods sight and account we live in that Sin tho' our outward carriage may be such that Men may not have the least suspicion of our being guilty of it And then except we hate Sin our iniquity surely will be found to be hateful When the Lord shall at last reckon with us reprove us and set our Sins in order before our Eyes Oh! then we shall see how we did but flatter our selves and see how wofully Sin deceived us see how hateful and odious a thing Sin is notwithstanding we were very fond of it or though we thought there was no great harm in it 3. If you love the Land and Nation if you wish well to England hate Evil. Alas do not our great culpable Evils our high provocations threaten to return upon our Heads and fall upon the Land in sad penal evils in sore and heavy Judgments 'T is a notable passage that Bishop Hall relates of a noble Captain who was earnestly sollicited to take on him the Defence of a strong City stored with Plenty of Ammunition and fortified with impregnable Walls Yea but says he have you any covering betwit it and Heaven Have you any defence against the Vengeance of that God whom your Sins have provoked The Application of the story is this In vain shall we think to secure our Selves and our State from Earth if we irritate Heaven And let me tell you Englands Sins are more dangerous and likely to be more mischievous

find Grace and Favour with the Lord to the preventing or removing of judgments and for the continuing and further conferring of His mercies That as it is Jer. 31.23 The Lord bless thee O Habitation of Justice and Mountain of Holiness the Blessing of the Lord should be on such a People 1. To begin with the first of these That 't is Gods express charge and command that we hate evil Quest 1. What kind of evil are we to understand here Answ Not meer Natural or Penal evil but Moral or culpable evil We must kiss the Rod accept of the Punishment of our Iniquity Lev. 26.41 but hate those ill manners that are displeasing to the Lord and are wont or likely to bring us under the Rod. Hate Sin which is the evil of evils the greatest evil Quest 2. How are we to hate it Answ There is a twofold hatred 1. An hatred of Aversation Thus we must hate sin as having an Antipathy unto it Hate it so as to shun and avoid it all we can 2. An hatred of Opposition From an enmity to sin not barely shunning it but striving earnestly against it Setting our selves against Sin as real enemies to it both in our selves and in others And surely they that are reconciled to God and at peace with Him they that are Friends to Christ cannot but be Enemies to Sin Now this and the two following Duties are included in the very Law of Nature These are common Principles of Natural Religion But we who have Gods will more clearly revealed to us in his written word shall be left more inexcusable if we conform not to his will herein What can be more plain than that Psal 97.10 Ye that Love the Lord Hate Evil So then none should have a face to say They love God who do not hate Sin in their Hearts And how plain is that Rom. 12.9 Abhor that which is evil Where the word ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is emphatical Abhor it even a Hell it self And great reason for this strict Injunction 1. Forasmuch as God hates Sin 'T is the abominable thing which he hates Nothing in the world so odious to him as Sin May it not be said that Sin in some respects is more odious than the very Devils These as they are Gods Creatures have some Natural good in them whereas there is nothing but evil in Sin And propter quod unum quodque tale est illud est magis tale It is only for Sin that the Devils are such odious Creatures in His pure Eyes Now as God hates Sin ought not we herein to be Followers of God 2. We cannot love the Lord in sincerity if we do not hate Sin Now this is the First and Great Commandment Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart Which is a thing impossible without an hatred of Sin Ye that Love the Lord Hate Evil. Sin is such an Enemy to God so contrary to His most Pure and Holy Nature and to His most Righteous will so opposite to his Interest to his Honour and Glory that if we have the love of God in us we must necessarily hate and abhor Sin for its contrariety to God 3. And certainly 't is a great Duty also incumbent on us to Fear the Lord Thou shalt Fear the Lord thy God and Serve him Fear ye not me saith the Lord If I be a Master where is my Fear But there is no true fear of God without an hatred of Sin Prov. 8.13 The Fear of the Lord is to hate Evil Psal 36.1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart that there is no fear of God before their Eyes 4. And 't is as certain that without an hatred of Sin we shall do no execution on it Now Sin is such a deadly Enemy that here we must Kill or be Kill'd Oh it warreth against our Souls And till we hate it we shall at most but Fence or Skirmish with it not Fight in good earnest against it What is it only to scratch its face to raise its skin This will not indanger its Life at all The surface of a meer outward Reformation is far short of the work of Mortification There is no wounding Sin to the Heart till we hate it Indeed the love of Sin is the very life of it But hatred seeks the destruction of its Enemy And without hating Sin we shall not be for mortifying it And if we are for sparing the Life of Sin our Lives must go for its Life 5. We cannot have the Complacential love of God till we hate Sin There is at least a Secret League with Sin till we come to hate it Never till then that our league with sin is broken And 't is certain that till our League with Sin is broken God and our Souls are not agreed While in League with Sin there 's no Reconciliation no Peace with God See Isa 1.16 18. and ch 59.2 6. Upon the whole this is a Discriminating Note and Mark necessary to distinguish true Converts such as indeed turn from Sin unto God to difference them from the wicked from Hypocrites These may abstain from many Sins but not from a right principle A wicked Man may refrain from the outward act of many Sins either upon some pang and horror of Conscience or upon some Worldly account when he is far from loathing and hating them He has a love to them still But fear of wrath to come or fear of loss shame or other punishment in this world lays a restraint upon him 'T is part of the Description and Character of a wicked Man Psal 36.4 He abhorreth not evil And 't is enough to prove one wicked still A bare abstinence from Sin will not prove one a true Convert but there must also be a real abhorrence of it Use I. That the Lord hath given such express charge to hate evil then is it not manifest that they are here condemned who indeed are direct Antipodes to this Divine Command who stand in Diametrical opposition to it I mean such as hate the good instead of hating evil Alas how many hate the Light because their deeds are evil How many that hate him that rebuketh in the Gate and abhor him that speaketh uprightly As here v. 10. How many that hate Instruction and that hate Reformation even hate both the Name and Thing How many that hate Holiness and hate Gods Saints and Servants for that for which the Holy Psalmist professeth his great delight was in them Psal 16.3 their excelling in Virtue Bear witness Sirs bear witness Are not such notorious Despisers of Gods Command Yea do not such shew themselves haters of God Oh what height of Impiety is this Use II. This should put us upon serious Self-Examination and on a strict Enquiry into our Hearts whether we indeed hate evil And great need of an impartial search here that we be not deceived and mistaken Then 1. Have we an hatred of sin as sin As 't is an