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…

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 ⟨p. 4⟩strange darknesse: this sinne did then in the soule, to which yet the sunne is but as a Taper.

Secondly, it defiles it thus in an instant. Take the most glorious Angel in heaven, and let one of the least sins seize upon his heart, he would in an instant fall down from heaven, stripped of all his glory, the ugliest creature that ever was beheld: you would count that the strongest of all poisons, that would poison in an instant; as Nero boiled a poison to that height, that it killed Germanicus as soon as he received it; now such an one is sin.

Secondly, it defiles it thus in an instant. Take the most glorious Angell in heaven, and let one of the least sinnes seaze upon his heart, he would in an instant fall downe from heaven, stript of all his glory, the ugliest creature that ever was beheld: you would count that the strongest of all poysons, that would poyson in an instant; as Nero boiled a poison to that height, that it killed Germanicus as soone as he received it; now such an one is sinne.