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, 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.

First, one sin did it in the fall of Adam, Rom. 5. 17. one offence polluted him, and all the world. Now suppose you should see one drop of darkness seizing on the sun, and putting out that light and eye of heaven, and to loosen it out of the orb it moves in, and cause it to drop down a lump of darkness, you would say it were a ⟨p. 4⟩strange darkness: this sin did then in the soul, to which yet the sun is but as a Taper.

First, one sinne did it in the fall of Adam, Rom. 5. 17. one offence polluted him, and all the world. Now suppose you should see one drop of darknesse seazing on the sunne, and putting out that light and eye of heaven, and to loosen it out of the orbe it moves in, and cause it to drop downe a lump of darknesse, you would say it were a