Aggravation of sin and sinning against knowledge. Mercy. Delivered in several sermons upon divers…Aggravation of sinne and sinning against knowledge. Mercie. Delivered in severall sermons upon divers…

A regenerate man is, and must needs be supposed guilty of more known sins, than an unregenerate man: and yet he commits fewer against knowledge, than he.

A regenerate man is, and must needs be supposed guilty of more knowne sinnes, than an unregenerate man: and yet he commits fewer against knowledge, than he.

First,¹ I say, he is guilty of more known sins: For he takes notice of every sinful disposition that is stirring in him, every by-end, every contrariety unto holiness, deadness to duty, reluctancy to spiritual duties: and when regenerated, beginneth to see and know more evil by himself, than ever he did before: he fees as the Apostle says of himself, Rom. 7. 10. all concupiscence: and the holier a man is, the more he discerns and knows his sins: So says the Apostle, Rom. 7. 18. I know that in me dwells no good thing. And ver. 21. I find when I would do good, evil is present with me. And 23. I see another law. All these, he says, he perceived and found daily in himself: and the more holy that he grew, the more he saw them. For the purer and clearer the light of Gods Spirit shines in a man, the more sins he knows: he will see lusts steaming up, flying in his heart, like moats in the sun, or sparks out of a furnace, which else he had ⟨p. 50⟩not seen: the clearer the sun-beam is which is let into the heart, the more thou wilt see them.

First,¹ I say, hee is guilty of more knowne sinnes: For he takes notice of every sinfull disposition that is stirring in him, every by-end, every contrariety unto holinesse, deadnesse to duty, reluctancie to spirituall duties: and when regenerated, beginneth to see and know more evill by himselfe, than ever he did before: he fees as the Apostle sayes of himselfe,