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…

To begin at the very beginning of thy being: how much riches of goodness were there laid and buried in thy foundation? when the first corner stone was laid, when thou wert made a man, (besides the cost which hath been spent upon this building since) and, cursed as thou art, even that very foundation was laid in bloody iniquities, in which thou wert conceived; and the very materials of soul and body, thou consistest of, being tempered with sin,¹ like the stone in the wall, and beam out of the timber, cry out every moment to God against thee,² as Edom did, Raze it, raze it, even to the very ground.

To begin at the very beginning of thy being: how much riches of goodnesse were there laid and buried in thy foundation? when the first corner stone was laid, when thou wert made a man, (besides the cost which hath beene spent upon this building since) and, cursed as thou art, even that very foundation was laid in bloody iniquities, in which thou wert conceived; and the very materialls of soule and body, thou consistest of, being tempered with sinne,¹ like the stone in the wall, and beame out of the timber, cry out every moment to God against thee,² as Edom did, Rase it, rase it, even to the very ground.

1. 1Hab. 2. 10, 11.
2. 2Psal. 137. 7.

Consider how but the other day thou were mere nothing, and when an infinite number that never were nor shall be, were in as great a possibility of being as thou, (for when he made this world, he could have laid it aside wholly, and created millions of other worlds) yet he chose thee to have a room in this, but one world, (for he means to make no more) and this world could