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…

A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS OF the Aggravation of sin.

The subject is the sinfulness of sin. page 2. The mischievous effects of the evil of sin. ibid. 1. It hath debased the soul. ibid. 2. It defiles the soul 1. In an instant. 2. Totally. 3. Eternally. 3 3. It robs the soul of the image of God. 4 4. It robs a man of God himself. 5 5. It was the first founder of hell. 6 The essence of sin is the cause of all these evils. ibid. Sin an evil that contains all the evils in the world. 7 1. It is the cause of sorrows, and diseases, and all evils. ibid. 2. There is some peculiar mischief in sin, not found in other evils, as appears in divers instances. 8 Quest. What transcendency of evil is in the essence ⟨image 4⟩of sin, that makes it above all other evil. 10 Answ. It is contrary to God and all that […] 1. It is contrary to his […] being. ibid. being. ibid. 2. It is contrary to all his attributes which are his name, is to himself, and what ever is his. ibid. 1. To his laws and ordinances. 2. To his favourites. 3. To his image in mans own breast. 11 Sinfulness of sin aggravated from the person suffering, being God and man. 12 The least sin virtually more or less contains all sin in the nature of it, proved. ibid. Every sin inclines our nature more to sin. 13 Sin contains not only all other evils in it, but also all of its own kind. ibid. Sin a perfect evil. ibid. Reasons why sin is the chiefest evil. 1. Because it is simply to be avoided for its self. 2. Because there can be no worse punishment than it self 3. Because it cannot have a worse epithet given it than it self. 14 Use. Wonder at the abounding nature of sin. 15 Examine our own estates. ibid. Quest. When a mans sins may be said to be his own? Answ. 1. Then he commits sin out of his own. 2. Then he hates it not, but loves it. 3. Then he nourisheth it, & cherisheth it. 4. Then he provides for it. 5. Then he lives in sin. 17 ⟨image 4⟩