Amos 2

There is no good in sin; it is the spirit and quintessence of evil. Sin is worse than hell; for the pains of hell only are a burden to the creature, but sin is a burden to God (Amos 2:13). I am pressed under your iniquities, as a cart is pressed under the sheaves.

It is a monster of the devil's creating. 2. The torments of hell are a burden only to the sinner; but sin is a burden to God (Amos 2:13): I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. 3. In hell-torments there is something that is good.

And it was a curse and judgment of God upon Jehoiakim that he must not be buried, but like a dead donkey be drawn and cast out of the gates of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 22:19). And so the Lord threatens a curse upon the Moabites, because they did not bury the king of Edom, but burnt h…

The devil buys many at a very easy price, he needs not carry them so high as the mountain, they are contented with a little gain that is got by a fraudulent bargain in the shop: if we stand in our window, or at our doors, we meet with temptations enough to carry us away. He need…

To God: for the hypocritical and ceremonial service of the Jews, was such a burden to him, that he was weary to bear it (Isaiah 1:14). Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves (Amos 2:13). To the creatures, who groan under this burden, being b…

By this time it may be the reader may be wearied with reading, as I am with thinking and writing of London's sins. But how has the Lord been wearied with the bearing of them, how has he been pressed with the weight of them, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves (Amos 2:13…

Should not every drop of sweat which I see trickle from their brows, fetch (as it were) a drop of blood from my heart? who am thus convinced and reproved of shameful laziness, by their indefatigable diligence. Do they pant after the dust of the earth (Amos 2:7), and shall not I…

APPLICATION. Afflictions in themselves are evil, Amos 2. 6. Very bitter and unpleasant, See Hebrews 12:11. Yet not morally and intrinsically evil, as sin is; for if so, the holy God would never own it for his own act, as he does, Mic. 3. [•]2. but always disclaimeth sin, Iam. 1.…

1. When the temptation is so small and inconsiderable, that it should not sway with any reasonable man. It is said, in (Amos 2:6): They sold the poor for a pair of shoes. And for a piece of bread will that man transgress (Proverbs 28:21).

Sin is the Spirits of Mischief distilled, it puts a Sting into death, 1 Corinthians 15:56. It is worse than Hell. 1. Hell is a burden only to the sinner, but sin is a Burden to God, Amos 2:13. 2. There is Iustice in Hell, but sin is the most unjust thing.

It is a rare thing to find a Joseph, or a Samuel, or a Josiah, that seek God betimes. Go to the universities, and you will find that those that should be as Nazarites consecrated to God, live as those that have vowed and consecrated themselves to Satan (Amos 2:11). And I raised…

Saul's sin persecuted Christ Jesus (Acts 9:4). God complains of their iniquity, as a burden, as if they made a cart of God, and loaded him with sins as with sheaves (Amos 2:13). Again, when we suffer for God, he has promised to help and assist us with counsel and comfort, with s…

This is the thirst of covetous men; they desire mammon, not manna. Amos 2:7: That pant after the dust of the earth. This is the disease most are sick of — an immoderate appetite after the world.

Mephibosheth caught a fall and became lame (2 Samuel 4:4); since Adam's fall men are lame on their feet — they walk not in the ways of obedience. Men know covetousness is a sin; the Greek word for covetousness signifies an immoderate desire of getting, like Midas who desired eve…

Those that degrade their souls. Those who set the world above their souls; who pant after the dust of the earth (Amos 2:7). As if a man's house were on fire and he took care to preserve the furniture but let his child burn in the fire.

A second sort would have heaven, but like him in Ruth, ch. 4. v. 2, 3, 4. who had a minde to his Kinsman Elimelechs land, and would have paid for the purchase, but he liked not to have it by marrying Ruth, and so missed of it: Some seem very forward to have heaven and salvation,…

Sin is a burden where-ever it comes. Sin burdens God, (Amos 2:3). I am pressed with your sins, as a Cart is pressed under the sheaves.

Sin is the Devils creature. 2. The torments of Hell are a burden only to the sinner, but sin is a burden to God. (Amos 2:13). I am pressed under you, as a Cart is pressed with sheaves.

2. As sin is a blackness contrary to the innocency that the Law requires, and as it blots and defiles the soul, it is a Macula, a spot, a filthy and deformed thing, abasing the creature, making the creature black, crooked, defiled, like the skin of the Ethiopian, or spotted like…

This is the only reason why he does not execute the fierceness of his wrath, and consume men, because he is God and not man, not subject to the same passions, changes, and impotencies as men are (Hosea 11:9; Malachi 3:6). If a house be very weak and ruinous, and clogged with a s…

A man may make himself like these things, he may debase himself into the vileness of an idol, "They that make them are like to them;" he may under-value and uncoin himself, blot out God's image and inscription, and write in the image and inscription of earth and Satan, he may tu…