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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…
Aggravation of sin and sinning against knowledge. Mercy. Delivered in several sermons upon divers occasions. By Tho: Goodwin B.D.Aggravation of sinne and sinning against knowledge. Mercie. Delivered in severall sermons upon divers occasions. By Tho: Goodvvin B.D.
London: printed by M. Flesher for John Rothwell, 1637London: printed by M. Flesher for Iohn Rothwell, 1637
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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.
Thirdly, sin defiles it totally: it rests not in one member only, but beginning at the understanding, eats into the will and affections; soaks through all. Those diseases we account strongest, which seize not on a joint or a member only, but strikes rottenness through the whole body.
Thirdly, sinne defiles it totally: it rests not in one member onely, but beginning at the understanding, eates into the will and affections; soaks through all. Those diseases we account strongest, which seaze not on a joynt or a member onely, but strikes rottennesse through the whole body.
Fourthly, it defiles eternally, it being aterna macula, a stain which no nitre or soap, or any creature can wash out, Jer. 2. 21. There was once let in a deluge of water, and the world was all overflowed with it; it washed away sinners indeed, but not one sin. And the world shall be a fire again at the latter day, and all that fire, and these flames in hell that follow, shall not purge out one sin.