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…

And hence it is that shame attends upon it, Rom. 6. 21. Now shame ariseth out of an apprehension of some excellency debased: and by how much the excellency is greater, by so much is the shame the greater, and therefore unutterable confusion will one day befall sinners: because sin is the debasement of an unvaluable excellency.

And hence it is that shame attends upon it, Rom. 6. 21. Now shame ariseth out of an apprehension of some excellencie debased: and by how much the excellencie is greater, by so much is the shame the greater, and therefore unutterable confusion will one day befall sinners: because sinne is the debasement of an unvaluable excellencie.

Secondly, it not only debaseth it, but defiles it also; and indeed there was nothing else that could defile it, Mat. 15. 20. for the soul is a most pure beam, bearing the image of the Father of lights: as far surpassing the sin in pureness, as the sun doth a clod of earth; and yet all the dirt in the world cannot defile the sun; all the clouds that seek to muffle it, it scatters them all: but sin hath defiled the soul, yea, one sin, the least defiles it, in an instant, totally, eternally.

Secondly, it not onely debaseth it, but defiles it also; and indeed there was nothing else that could defile it, Mat. 15. 20. for the soule is a most pure beame, bearing the image of the Father of lights: as farre surpassing the sinne in purenesse, as the sunne doth a clod of earth; and yet all the dirt in the world cannot defile the sunne; all the clouds that seeke to muffle it, it scatters them all: but sinne hath defiled the soule, yea, one sinne, the least defiles it, in an instant, totally, eternally.