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…

And as the person offended, aggravates the offence, as before, so also the person suffering, being God and man, argues the abounding sinfulness of it. For, for what crime did you ever hear a King was put to death? their persons being esteemed in worth above all crime, as civill. Christ was the King of Kings.

And as the person offended, aggravates the offence, as before, so also the person suffering, being God and man, argues the abounding sinfulnesse of it. For, for what crime did you ever hear a King was put to death? their persons being esteemed in worth above all crime, as civill. Christ was the King of Kings.

And yet there is one consideration more to make the measure of its iniquity fully full, and to abound to flowing over, and that is this, that the least sin virtually more or less contains all sin in the nature of it (I mean not that all are equal, therefore I add more or less) ⟨p. 13⟩and I prove it thus: because Adam by one offence contracted the stain of all, no sooner did one sin seize upon his heart, but he had all sins in him.

And yet there is one consideration more to make the measure of its iniquity fully full, and to abound to flowing over, and that is this, that the least sinne virtually more or lesse containes all sinne in the nature of it (I meane not that all are equall, therefore I adde more or lesse) ⟨p. 13⟩and I prove it thus: because Adam by one offence contracted the staine of all, no sooner did one sinne seaze upon his heart, but he had all sinnes in him.

And so every sin in us by a miraculous multiplication inclines our nature more to every sin than it was before: it makes the pollution of nature of a deeper dye; not only to that species of sin, whereof it is the proper individual act, but to all else: as bring one candle into a room, the light spreads all over; and then another, the light is all over more increased: So it is in sin; for the least cuts the soul off from God, and then it is ready to go a whoring after every vanity that will entice it, or entertain it.