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 this shows the fullness of the evil of it, in that it contains not only all other evils in the world in it, but also all of its own kind. As you would count that a strange poison, the least drop of which contains the force of all poison in it: That a strange disease, the least infection whereof brought the body subject to all diseases: yet such an one is sin, the least making the soul more prone and subject to all.

And this shewes the fulnesse of the evill of it, in that it containes not onely all other evills in the world in it, but also all of its owne kinde. As you would count that a strange poyson, the least drop of which containes the force of all poyson in it: That a strange disease, the least infection whereof brought the body subject to all diseases: yet such an one is sinne, the least making the soule more prone and subject to all.

And now you see it is a perfect evil; and though indeed it cannot be said to be the chiefest in that full sense wherein God is said to be the chiefest good; because if it were as bad as God is good, how could he pardon it, subdue it, bring it to nothing as he doth? and then how could it have addition to it, one sin being more sinful than another? Ezek. 8. 15. John 19. 11. But yet it ⟨p. 14⟩hath some analogy of being the chiefest evil, as God the chiefest good.

And now you see it is a perfect evill; and though indeed it cannot be said to be the chiefest in that full sense wherein God is said to be the chiefest good; because if it were as bad as God is good, how could he pardon it, subdue it, bring it to nothing as he doth? and then how could it have addition to it, one sin being more sinfull than another? Ezek. 8. 15.