If you now ask me what these sins are: I answer, They are, as denominated from the Point or Term from which men turn, all comprised in this one Unwillingness of God, or the turning of the heart from God; or not loving God But as we denominate them from the Term or Object to which they turn, they are all comprised in this one, Carnal self-love, or turning to and preferring our carnal self before God, and as it inclineth to action, all or most of it is comprehended in this one word Flesh-pleasing. But because there are a Trinity of sins in this Unity, we must consider them distinctly. Three great Objects there are about which this sin of Flesh-pleasing is exercised: 1. Credit or Honour. 2. Profit or Riches. 3. Sensual Pleasure, more strictly so called, consisting in the more immediate Pleasing of the senses; Whereas the two first do more remotely please them, by laying in Provision to that end: Otherwise all three are in the general but Flesh-pleasing. The three great sins therefore that do most directly fight ⟨p. 289⟩against God himself in his Sovereignty, are 1. Pride or Ambition. 2. Worldliness or Love of Riches. 3. Sensuality, Voluptuousness, or inordinate Love of Pleasures. There are in the Understanding indeed other sins as directly against God as these, and more radical (as 1. Atheism, denying a God. 2. Polytheism, denying our God to be the Alone God, and joining others with him. 3. Idolatry, owning false Gods. 4. Infidelity, denying Jesus Christ our Lord-Redeemer. 5. Owning false Saviours and Prophets, in his stead, or before him, as do the Mahometans. 6. Joining other Redeemers and Saviours with him, as if he were not the alone Christ. 7. Denying the holy Ghost, and denying Credit to his Holy and Miraculous Testimony to the Christian faith, and blasphemously ascribing all to the devil: which is the sin against the Holy Ghost. 8. Owning and believing in devils, or Lying spirits in stead of the Holy Ghost: as the Montanists, Mahometans, Ranters, Familists do. 9. Owning and adjoining devils or Lying spirits in coordination or equality with the Holy Ghost, and believing equally his doctrine and theirs, as if he were not sole and sufficient in his Work. All these are sins directly against God ⟨p. 290⟩himself, and if prevalent, most certainly damning; three against the Father, three against the Son, and three against the Holy Ghost.
If you now ask me what these sinnes are: I answer, They are, as denominated from the Point or Term from which men turn, all comprised in this one Ʋnwillingness of God, or the turning of the heart from God; or not loving God But as we denominate them from the Term or Object to which they turn, they are all comprised in this one, Carnal self-love, or turning to and preferring our carnal self before God, and as it inclineth to action, all or most of it is comprehended in this one word Flesh-pleasing. But because there are a Trinity of sinnes in this Unity, we must consider them distinctly. Three great Objects there are about which this sinne of Flesh-pleasing is exercised: 1. Credit or Honour. 2. Profit or Riches. 3. Sensual Pleasure, more strictly so called, consisting in the more immediate Pleasing of the senses; Whereas the two first do more remotely please them, by laying in Provision to that end: Otherwise all three are in the general but Flesh-pleasing. The three great sinnes therefore that do most directly fight ⟨p. 289⟩against God himself in his Sovereignty, are 1. Pride or Ambition. 2. Worldlines or Love of Riches. 3. Sensuality, Voluptuousness, or inordinate Love of Pleasures. There are in the Ʋnderstanding indeed other sinnes as directly against God as these, and more radicall (as 1. Atheism, denying a God. 2. Polutheism, denying our God to be the Alone God, and joyning others with him. 3. Idolatry, owning false Gods. 4. Infidelity, denying Jesus Christ our Lord-Redeemer. 5. Owning false Saviours and Prophets, in his stead, or before him, as do the Mahometans. 6. Joyning other Redeemers and Saviours with him, as if he were not the alone Christ. 7. Denying the holy Ghost, and denying Credit to his Holy and Miraculous Testimony to the Christian faith, and blasphemously ascribing all to the devil: which is the sinne against the Holy Ghost. 8. Owning and believing in devils, or Lying spirits in stead of the Holy Ghost: as the Montanists, Mahometans, Ranters, Familists do. 9. Owning and adjoyning devils or Lying spirits in coordination or equality with the Holy Ghost, and believing equally his doctrine and theirs, as if he were not sole and sufficient in his Work. All these are sinnes directly against God ⟨p. 290⟩himself, and if prevalent, most certainly damning; three against the Father, three against the Sonne, and three against the Holy Ghost.
