God not only thunders by threatening, but lets his thunderbolt fall. He inflicts judgements on a person so that he may read his sins in his punishment, and yet he sins. His sin was uncleanness, by which he wasted his strength, as well as his estate. It makes the sin greater to sin against an enlightened conscience. It is full of obstinacy.
Men give no reason, make no defence for their sins, and yet are resolved to hold fast iniquity.
Though there be death and hell at every step, we will march on under Satan's colours. To sin against convictions and illuminations, is joined with rejection and contempt of God. Every sin displeases God, but sins against an enlightened conscience reproach the Lord. To condemn the authority of a prince, is a reproach done to him. It is accompanied with impudence.