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GOD
HATES
SIN
ESPECIALLY
IN SAINTS.
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"
You only have
I
known
of
all the
families
of
the
"
earth, therefore
l
will
not
punish
you
for
all
your
ini=
"
quities."
As
if
he
had
said,
I
will
not
always
take care
to
punish
other nations
when they
are
guilty
of enormous
crimes
;
.
I
will
not take
so
much pains
to
recover
them,
let
them
sink into
destruction
:
this
is
the language
of
God
to every one here, You only have
I
known,
you
have I
favoured above
the
rest
of
the
world,
and
you
have
rebelled against
me,
therefore
I
will
punish
you
for
your
iniquities.
And this
God doth to'shewhisown
hatred
of
sin
both before
his
own
people and before the
world.
if
those
that
are reconciled
to
God
by
the
blood
of
his
son,
should commit iniquities from time
to
time,
that are
visible to
the
eyes
of
the
world,
and
there should
be
no
sensible animadversions
upon them for
them,
the wicked
would say
that God
ceases to love holiness,
he
punishes
not
his
people
when they
sin.
No,,
saith
God;
my
gos-
pel
shall;
appear
to be
a
holy
gospel
;
if
those
very
saints
that
I
have taken
into
my bosom
should
offend me,
I
will
make
it
appear
to the world
that I
hate
sin
in
them
.as
well as
I
do
in
others, and
I
will
punish
it.
There
is
a
sort
of governing justice,
which
Christ
the
king
of
the
church
exercises for the
honour of
his own
law,
and
his
own
gospel,
for the sake
of
his.own
and
his
Father's holi-
ness;
and
though it
be
not revenging
justice, yet it
is
sometimes
very
terrible
and
severe.
1
Cor.
xi.
so.
There
were several disorders
practised
by
the
Corin-
thians
in
their participation
of
the holy ordinance
of
the
Lord's supper
:
"
They
come
together,
not
for
the better,
"
but
for the
worse,
one being hungry, and
another
"
drunken,"
&c.
Well, saith
the
Lord,
by
the apostle,
"
Examine
yourselves,
lest
ye corne
together unto con-
"
demnation
;
for whosoever
shall
eat of
this bread,
and
" drink
of
this
cup unworthily, shall
be
guilty
of
the
"
blood
and body
of
the
Lord
;
yea, he
eatèth and
"
drinketh damnation
to himself:"
which
appears
by
the
context to mean
temporal judgments,
viz.
weakness;
sickness,
and death.
Another
design
of God
is
to
awaken
bis
children
out of their
security,
and
to
reclaim them
from sin';
for the
design
of
afflictive
providences
upon
the
children of God,
is to lead them back again
to
or
dinances and obedience.
isa.
xxvii. 9.
"
By
this shall
"
the iniquity
of Jacob
be
purged, and
his sin
taken
VOL.
III.
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