Abuse of God's Goodness
God will hardly show those mercy who sin because mercy abounds. [TDOR]
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‘Tis unnatural to abuse love, to abuse love is a villainy condemned of all, yea, to abuse love, is the most inexcusable sin of all. It is next to the sin of devils to abuse love, the love of God in Christ. [ALE]
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This is wickedness at the height, for a man to be very bad because God is very good. [PRASD]
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A man may as truly say, the sea burns, or fire cools, as that free grace and mercy should make a truly gracious soul to do wickedly. [PRASD]
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There is nothing in the world that renders a man more unlike to a saint, and more like to Satan, than to argue from mercy to sinful liberty; from divine goodness to licentiousness. This is the devil’s logic, and in whomsoever you find it, you may write, ‘This soul is lost.’ [PRASD]