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A28173	The sinners sanctuary, or, A discovery made of those glorious priviledges offered unto the penitent and faithful under the Gospel unfolding their freedom from death, condemnation, and the law, in fourty sermons upon Romans, Chap. 8 / by that eminent preacher of the Gospel, Mr. Hugh Binning ...	Binning, Hugh, 1627-1653.	1670 (1670)	Wing B2933; ESTC R6153	246,575	304

when men have already deserved infinit punishment at his hand and may alwayes look within and find an answer to all the murmurings of their hearts as having sinned so often against him yet then to ●ise up against his good pleasure and a●ter we have so often sinned to repine at any thing coming from him And this certainly is a high provocation of the most high God it puts a kind of necessity upon him to inflict that which thou indeed deserves and then this inward heart burning against God it breaks out often in words against that most high and holy one so vers 40 41. and vers 56 57. Provoking which is the plain expression of murmuring in the margent is rendered rebelling against Him and so in vers 8. When a short account is given of them when the Character or An●gram of such a people is expressed it s set down thus A stubborn and rebellious generation Therefore Paul considering this woful and wretched posture of the soul set in opposition to the alwayes blessed will of God and the madness and folly of it he exhorts us neither murmure ye as some of them murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer for these things happened for ensamples c. 1 Cor. 10.10 11. Truly there is nothing either more deformed and vile in it self or more disquieting and tormenting to the soul or more dangerous in the consequents of it then such a posture of spirit a discontented humour against Gods providence Whether it be in withholding that good thing ●rom us which we desire or sending that which crosseth our humour whether sicknesse or want or reproach or disrespect whatsoever it be that the heart is naturally carried to pursue or eshew What more abominable and ugly visage then the countenance of an angry and furious person but when this is against God it adds infinitly to the deformity and vileness of it I do well to be angry is the Motto of a discontented soul. It erects an imaginary soveraignty against true soveraignty it sets up an Antiprovidence it establisheth another Divine power and wisdom and brings the Majesty highnesse and holiness of God down to be tread upon by the creature And then it is its own tormenter a sin that needs no punishment but it self the insurrection and mutany of the heart against Gods will sets all the powers of the soul out of course vexes pains and disquiets all There is no peace and tranquility but in the complacency of the heart with Gods heart as Ephraim was like a bullock unaccustomed with the yoke Jer. 31.18 The more he fretted and spurned at his yoke the more it galled him and g●ieved him till he was instructed and then he was eased This fills the soul with hideous tormenting thoughts and cares this feeds upon its own marrow and consumes it as some have made the Emblem of envy which is a particular kind of this enmity as if you would imagine a creature that did waste and consume all its moisture and marrow and feed upon the destruction of it self Now this is but the prelude of what follows this self-punishment is a messenger to tell what is coming● That the most high God is engaged in his power against such a person and shall vent his displeasure to their eternal displeasure that is the fruit of this enmity SERMON XXI Rom. 8.7 8. The carnal mind is enmity to God and cannot be subject to his Law So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God IT is not the least of mans evils that he knows not how evil he is therefore the Searcher of the heart of m●n gives the most perfect account of it Ier. 17.12 The heart is deceitful above all things as well as desperatly wicked Two things superlative and excessive in it bordering upon an infinitnesse such as sin is capable of Wickedness and Deceitfulness and indeed that which makes the wicked heart desperatly and hopelesly so is the deceitfulness of it there are many specious coverings gotten to palliat this wickedness and enmity and so many invisible and spiritual wickednesses in the heart that it is no wonder that they lu●k and dwell without observation Sin is either covered with some deceivable pretext of another thing or altogether escapes the dim eyes of men because of its subtil and spiritual nature Both are in this business the enmity of mans heart against God is so subtil a thing in many and it is shrouded over with some other pretences in all that few get the lively discovery and sense of it It is true it is very grosse and palpable in most part of men visible I mean upon them though not to themselves Any whose eyes is opened may behold the black visage of rebellion in the most part of the actings and courses of men as the Apostle Gal. 6. speaks the works of the flesh are manifest Truly this enmity against God is too too manifest in most part the weapons of your warfare against God being so carnal and visible your opposition to his holy will and wayes being so palpable There is an enmity acted by many in the tenour of their conversation without God in the world and against God as appears in all your inveterat and godlesse customs of lying swearing cursing drunkenness railing Sabbath-breaking neglect of prayer and such like which carry in their fore-brow this inscription Against the known God opposite to that of the Athenians altar The God whom you pretend to know and wo●ship His Name is every day blasphemed His word slighted His will disobeyed as if you had proclaimed war against him But there is in some and I fear a great many not only an acted but an affected enmity too Enmity rising up to the maturity and ripness of malignity and hatred of the Image of God in all his children Some are not willing to go to Heaven yet they do not disturb others in their juorney they can let others be religious about them and rawly desire to be like them but others there are who will neither enter into Heaven themselves nor let others enter as Christ speaks of the Pharisees Matth. 23.13 They hate the light of anothers conversation because their own deeds are evil and are reproved and condemned by it It s said Rev. 11.10 The witnesses tormented them that dwelt on the earth It is strange what a torment it is to the world that the godly are in it piety is an eye-sore to many if they could extirpat all that bears that image they would think it sweet as bread Psal. 14. This is a more open and declared enmity against the God of Heaven and yet I know it lurks under the mask of some other thing you pretend to hate hypocrisie only Alas what a scorn is it for profanity to hate hypocrisie sure it is not because it is a sin but for the very shaddow of piety it carries you hate the thing it self so perfectly that you cannot indure the very picture of it Do