Reason 1. Because sinners alwayes abuse the goodnesse of God.
2. They spare not the glory of God, but themselves.
Vse 1. This may serve to instruct us, to ascribe it unto the grace and mercy of God, that he hath hitherto spared us.
2. To exhort us, not to contemne this long-suffering of God, but thereby to be led unto repentance, Romans 2.4.
Doctrine 4. By sinne a sinner is cast downe from the place and condition which he had before.
This is gathered from these words; cast down to hell.
Reason. Because sin is an aversion from God. Now as the communion which we have with God, makes us to ascend into a high condition, even into Heaven it selfe, so that our conversation is in heaven, as it is Philippians 3.20. So also aversion from him makes us to descend, even untill we come unto hell it selfe.
Vse. This may serve to admonish us, not to trust the devill, nor our own imaginations, as if we could ever attain any good by sinning. For so our first parents were deceived, when they thought to make themselves like unto God by sin, they were made like unto the devill.
Doctrine 5. The darknesse of misery followes the darknesse of sinne.
This gathered from these words; delivered them into chaines of darknesse.