See here, 1. How wicked people are hardened in their wickedness: they
make a mock at sin. They make a laughing matter of the sins of others,
making themselves and their companions merry with that for which they
should mourn, and they make a light matter of their own sins, both when
they are tempted to sin and when they have committed it; they call evil
good and good evil (Isa. v. 20), turn it off with a jest, rush into sin
(Jer. viii. 6) and say they shall have peace though they go on. They
care not what mischief they do by their sins, and laugh at those that
tell them of it. They are advocates for sin, and are ingenious at
framing excuses for it. Fools make a mock at the sin-offering (so
some); those that make light of sin make light of Christ. Those are
fools that make light of sin, for they make light of that which God
complains of (Amos ii. 13), which lay heavily upon Christ, and which
they themselves will have other thoughts of shortly. 2. How good people
are encouraged in their goodness: Among the righteous there is favour;
if they in any thing offend, they presently repent and obtain the
favour of God. They have a goodwill one to another; and among them, in
their societies, there is mutual charity and compassion in cases of
offences, and no mocking.