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…

The second way, collaterally, is, when knowledge is but a circumstance in our sins: so as the pleasure §2of some sin (we know to be a sin) is the thing aimed at;¹ & that our knowledge steps but in between to hinder us in it, and we commit it notwithstanding, though we do know it; here knowledge is indeed sinned against, yet but collaterally, and as a stander by, but as a circumstance only, shot at per accidens, concomitanter, and by the by, as one that steps in to part a fray is smitten, for labouring to hinder them in their sin, as the Sodomites quarrelled with Lot: they are both found in this Chapter, and therefore come fitly within the compass of this discourse.²

The second way, collaterally, is, when knowledge is but a circumstance in our sinnes: so as the pleasure §2of some sinne (we know to be a sin) is the thing aimed at;¹ & that our knowledge steps but in between to hinder us in it, and we commit it notwithstanding, though we doe know it; here knowledge is indeed sinned against, yet but collaterally, and as a stander by, but as a circumstance onely, shot at per accidens, concomitanter, and by the by, as one that steps in to part a fray is smitten, for labouring to hinder them in their sin, as the Sodomi•es quarrelled with Lot: they are both found in this Chapter, and therefore come fitly within the compasse of this discourse.²

1. 1What to sin against knowledge circumstantially only.What to sinne against knowledg circumstantially onely.
2. 2This distinction explained out of this Chapter.