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…

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 ⟨p. 89⟩his judgements, to trample under foot the blood of the covenant, or else unto devilish opinions; those other are too small to be punishments of thy sin: For still the end of such an one must be seven times worse than the beginning, as Christ says it shall; if thou wert a drunkard, a swearer, or an unclean person before, and thy knowledge wrought some alteration in thee, thou shalt not haply be so now at thy fall, but seven times worse; profane, injurious to Saints, a blasphemer, or derider of Gods ways and ordinances.

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 sinnes, whereof they were capable, as unnaturall uncleannesse, &c. But these are not sinnes great enough for thee, that art a sinner of the Christians; to be given up to drunkennesse, or adultery, &c. otherwise than to discover thy rottennesse, these are too small sins; but thou shalt be given up to inward profanenesse of heart, (as Esau was, having been brought up in a good family) so as not to neglect holy duties onely, but to despise them; to despise the good word of God and his Saints, and to hate godlinesse and the appearance of it; thou shalt be given up to contemne God and