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…

AGGRAVATION OF SIN.

AGGRAVATION OF SINNE.

ROM. 7. 13. Was that then which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good: that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

ROM. 7. 13. Was that then which is good made death unto mee? God forbid. But sinne, that it might appeare sin, working death in mee by that which is good: that sinne by the commandement might become exceeding sinfull.

WE find our Apostle in the 9. verse to have been alive, but struck upon the sudden dead, by an apparition presented to him in the glass of the law, of the sinfulness of sin. Sin revived, says the 9. verse, appeared to be sin, says the 13. verse, looks but like it self, above measure sinful: and he falls down dead at the very sight of it: I dyed, says he in the 9. it wrought ⟨p. 2⟩death in me, says the 13. that is, an apprehension of death and hell, as due to that estate I was then in. But yet as the life of sin was the death of Paul, so this death of his was but a preparation to a new life, I through the Law and dead to the Law, that I might live to God, Gal. 2. 19. and here he likewise speaks of Gods work upon him at his first conversion; for then it was that he relates how sin became in his esteem, so above measure sinful.