46 The Evil of Evils, Or the Witchcraft. Why (might Saul fay) Lord, have mercyupon me, is this fuch rebellion ? I did it for the honor of God, I did it to facrifice to God; and yet the Prophet ofGod in Gods Name chargeth saidwith rebellion. Now Brethren, Sinyou fee hath that in its own Nature that is . not intendedby men in their finning: Therfore while I (peak ofthe Nature of f n, fame may fay, Indeed this my be true of (inful,wicked, notorious wretches ; but is this true of me ? Yea, it may be true of the mofi civil manorwo- man in Gods prefence this day; God may charge -themwith hatred and rebellion. Thirdly, Sin is a difpifing of God. Who would acknowledg in the way of fin they de- Cpife God ? Scarce any in theworld is fo wicked as to acknowledg they deCpife God. And yet mark, God chargeth David with this for the commiflionofthat one En : fec the 2 Sam. 12.9. Daviddid defpiíeGod. Well, ifhatred,and re- bellion, and defpifingofGod, though neither of them all be in the intentionof the man in cotn- tnittingofthem, yet God Teeth it in the Nature ofthem. So then if fin be a defpifingofGod, rebellion againfi God, walking contrary,and en mity, &c. iftherebe all this in fin, though in e- very fin the Creature intend not this, but God feeth this in the rootofevery fin, in thevenom of-every fin : Therefore then, you that have goneón in the courfe of fin, lay but this fecond thing toheart, That you are thofe, who have walked in thecourfe ofyour lives in an oppofi- tion againft the infinitedreadful God ofall the World
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