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 what have I been speaking of all this while? Why? but of one sin in the general nature of it. There is not a man here, but hath millions of them; as many as the sands upon the Sea shore; yea, as there would be Atoms, were all the world pounded to dust, it exceeds in number also; and therefore ere we go any further, let all our thoughts break off here in wonderment at the abounding of sin, above all things else; for other things, if they be great, they are but a few; if many, they are but small: the world, tis a big one indeed, but yet there is but one; the sands, though innumerable, yet they are but small; your sinfulness exceeds in •oth.

AND what have I beene speaking of all this while? Why? but of one sinne in the generall nature of it. There is not a man here, but hath millions of them; as many as the sands upon the Sea shore; yea, as there would be Atomes, were all the world pounded to dust, it exceeds in number also; and therefore ere we goe any further, let all our thoughts break off here in wonderment at the abounding of sinne, above all things else; for other things, if they be great, they are but a few; if many, they are but small: the world, tis a big one indeed, but yet there is but one; the sands, though innumerable, yet they are but small; your sinfulnesse exceeds in •oth.

And next, let all our thoughts be wound up to the most deep and intense consideration of our estates; for if one sin abounds thus, what tongue can express, or heart can conceive their misery, who to use the Apostles phrase, 1 Cor. 15. are yet in their sins? that is, stand bound to God in their own single bond only, to answer for all their sins themselves; and cannot, in the estate wherein yet they stand of impenitency and unbelief, plead the benefit of Christs death, to take off and ease them of the guilt of one sin, but, all their sins are yet all their own, which ⟨p. 16⟩to a man in Christ they are not; for his own bonds are cancelled, and given in, and Christ entered into bonds for him, and all his sins translated upon him.