1Not because men sin only by ignorance, as the Platonists think; but 1. It may be the holy Ghost doth of purpose do it to aggravate the hatefulness of the sin, because men use to excuse it, and make light of it. 2. Because it is a sin none are free from: If he had named whoredom, or drunkenness, &c. many unregenerate men would have pleaded not-guilty. 3. This sin serves more to taunt and reproach the rebellious nature of man: It was the knowledge of good and evil that Adam so much aspired unto, and lo now he and all his were set in gross ignorance, as the just fruit of aspiring after forbidden knowledge. 4. Because ignorance is the mother and nurse of all sorts of sins, as these places show, Eph. 4.18, 19. 2 Pet. 2.12. Psal. 36.2, 3, 4.
1Not because men sinne onely by ignorance, as the Platonists thinke; but 1. It may be the holy Ghost doth of purpose doe it to aggravate the hatefulnesse of the sinne, because men use to excuse it, and make light of it. 2. Because it is a sinne none are free from: If he had named whoredome, or drunkennesse, &c. many unregenerate men would have pleaded not-guilty. 3. This sinne serves more to taunt and reproch the rebellious nature of man: It was the knowledge of good and evill that Adam so much aspired unto, and loe now he and all his were set in grosse ignorance, as the just fruit of aspiring after forbidden knowledge. 4. Because ignorance is the mother and nurse of all sorts of sinnes, as these places shew, Eph. 4.18, 19. 2 Pet. 2.12. Psal. 36.2, 3, 4.
- 1Answ. Why ignorance of all the sins of unregenerate men is rather named.
