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…

Thus having given such rules,¹ whereby you may estimate the sinfulness of particular acts, I will now proceed to other ways, aggravations taken from the kind of knowledge a man sins against, to sin against what kind of knowledge is most heinous and dangerous; and these are five, drawn from the ⟨p. 78⟩several qualifications of that knowledge, and the light which men sin against.² For the greater, or the more strong & efficacious the light and knowledge is, the greater is the sin of knowledge thou committest; and this I make a third general head to explain this doctrine by. All these five rules being applicable and common both to particular acts against knowledge, and also lying in an estate of impenitency against knowledge, and all other particulars which have been mentioned.

Thus having given such rules,¹ whereby you may estimate the sinfulnesse of particular acts, I will now proceed to other wayes, aggravations taken from the kind of knowledge a man sins against, to sin against what kind of knowledge is most hainous and dangerous; and these are five, drawn from the ⟨p. 78⟩severall qualifications of that knowledge, and the light which men sinne against.² For the greater, or the more strong & efficacious the light and knowledge is, the greater is the sinne of knowledge thou committest; and this I make a third generall head to explaine this doctrine by. All these five rules being applicable and common both to particular acts against knowledge, and also lying in an estate of impenitencie against knowledge, and all other particulars which have beene mentioned.

1. 13. Head. Aggravations drawn from the kind• of that knowledge we sin against, which are five.