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…

Fourthly, it hath robbed man even of God himself: Your sins separate (says God) betwixt you and me: and therefore they are said to live without God in the world: and in robbing a man of God, it robs him of all things; for all things are ours, but so far as God is ours; of God whose face makes heaven, he is all in all, his loving kindness is better than life, and containeth beauty, honours, riches, all: yea they are but a drop to him.

Fourthly, it hath robbed man even of God himselfe: Your sinnes separate (sayes God) betwixt you and me: and therefore they are said to live without God in the world: and in robbing a man of God, it robs him of all things; for all things are ours, but so farre as God is ours; of God whose face makes heaven, he is all in all, his loving kindnesse is better than life, and containeth beauty, honours, riches, all: yea they are but a drop to him.

But its mischief hath not staid here, but as the Leprosy of the Lepers in the old Law, sometimes infected their houses, garments; so it hath hurled confusion over all the world, brought a vanity on the creature, ¹Rom. 8. 23. and a curse: and had ⟨p. 6⟩not Christ undertook the shattered condition of the world to uphold it,² it had fallen about Adams cares.

But its mischiefe hath not staid here, but as the Leprosie of the Lepers in the old Law, sometimes infected their houses, garments; so it hath hurld confusion over all the world, brought a vanitie on the creature, ¹Rom. 8. 23. and a curse: and had ⟨p. 6⟩