made them strangers and aliens to Him.
3. Sin has robbed them of divine friendship--and made them
enemies to God.
4. Sin has robbed them of communion and fellowship with God--and
made them strangers and aliens to Him.
5. Sin has robbed them of their glory--and made them vile and
miserable.
It has robbed many a oration of the gospel, and many a parish of
many a happy guide, and many a Christian of the favor of God, the
joys of the Spirit, and the peace of conscience.
Oh! the health, the wealth, the honor, the friends, the relations—
which sin has robbed thousands of.
More—It has robbed many of their gifts, their arts, their parts, their
memory, their judgment, yes, their very reason, as you may see in
Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Ahithophel, Haman, Herod,
and those Babylonish princes that accused Daniel.
And so Menippus of Phoenicia, who, having lost his goods, strangled
himself. And so Dinarcus Phidon, at a certain loss, cut his own
throat. By all which it is most apparent, that sin is the greatest thief
in all the world.
Oh! then, who would not break league and covenant with it, and be
still in pressing of God to do justice upon it! etc.