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…

Secondly, thou wilt in sinning against knowledge be given up to greater hardness. ¹If the light that is in thee be darkness (says Christ) how great is that darkness? therefore the more light a man hath, and yet goes on in works of darkness, the more darkness that man will be left unto, even to a reprobate mind in the end.

Secondly, thou wilt in sinning against knowledg be given up to greater hardnesse. ¹If the light that is in thee be darknesse (sayes Christ) how great is that darknesse? therefore the more light a man hath, and yet goes on in works of darknesse, the more darknesse that man will be left unto, even to a reprobate mind in the end.

1. 1Such are given up to greater hardness of heart.Such are given up to greater hardnesse of heart.

Thirdly, it will procure thee to be given up to the worst of sins,¹ more than another man; for God when he leaves men, makes one sin the punishment of another, & reserves the worst for sinners against knowledge. These Gentiles, when they knew God, they worshipped him not, God gave them up to the worst of sins, whereof they were capable, as unnatural uncleanness, &c. But these are not sins great enough for thee, that art a sinner of the Christians; to be given up to drunkenness, or adultery, &c. otherwise than to discover thy rottenness, these are too small sins; but thou shalt be given up to inward profaneness of heart, (as Esau was, having been brought up in a good family) so as not to neglect holy duties only, but to despise them; to despise the good word of God and his Saints, and to hate godliness and the appearance of it; thou shalt be given up to contemn God and