DEPTIIS OF SIN. 31 of these sins, or any like them. There is no provision of mercy made for such sinners. These are sins, which, in their own nature, without the considera- tion of aggravating circumstances, plunge a soul into depths : these sins cut the locks of men's spiritual strength; and it is vain for them to say, We will go, and do as at other times. Bones are not broken with- out pain, nor great sins brought on the conscience without trouble. But I need not insist on these. Some say that they deprive even true believers of all their interest in the love of Godbut unduly ; all grant that they bereave them of all comforting evidence and well- grounded assurance of it. So they did David and Peter, and herein lies no small part of the depths we are searching into. But There are sins, which, though they do not rise up in the conscience with such a bloody guilt as those mentioned, yet, by reason of their aggravations, God makes them a root of disquietness and trouble to the soul all its days. He says of some sins of ungodly men, " As I live, this iniquity shall not be purged from you until ye die." If you are come to this height, you shall not escape, I will not spare you. And there are such provocations in his own people, that he will not let them pass before he hath cast them into depths, and made them cry out for deliverance. Let us con- sider some of them. 1. Sins under signal enjoyments of love and kindness from God are of this sort. When God bath given un- to any one expressive manifestations of his love, con- vinced him of it, made him say, in the inmost parts of his heart, this is undeserved love and kindness ; then, for him to be negligent in walking with God, is an ag- gravation that shall not be forgotten. It is a remark upon the sins of Solomon, that he fell into them after God had appeared unto him twice ; and all sins under,
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