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…

For first, all other evils God proclaims himself the author of, and owns them all; though sin be the meritorious cause of all, yet God the efficient and disposing cause. There is no evil in the City but I have done it. He only disclaimeth this, Jam. 1. 13. as a bastard of some others breeding, for he is the Father of lights, ver. 17.

For first, all other evills God proclaimes himselfe the author of, and ownes them all; though sinne be the meritorious cause of all, yet God the efficient and disposing cause. There is no evill in the City but I have done it. He onely disclaimeth this, Iam. 1. 13. as a bastard of some others breeding, for he is the Father of lights, ver. 17.

Secondly, the utmost extremity of the evil of punishment God the Son under-went, had a cup mingled him of his Father, more bitter than if all the evils in the world had been strained in, and he drank it off heartily to the bottom; but not a drop of sin, though sweetened with the offer of all the world, would go down with him.

Secondly, the utmost extremity of the evill of punishment God the Sonne under-went, had a cup mingled him of his Father, more bitter than if all the evils in the world had beene strained in, and he dranke it off heartily to the bottome; but not a drop of sinne, though sweetned with the offer of all the world, would goe downe with him.

Thirdly, other evils the Saints have chosen and embraced as good, and refused the greatest good things the world had, as evil, when they came in competition with sin. So Moses those rather to suffer, much rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin,