The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

4 Consectary.

4. If sin separately considered, be so great an Evil:¹ What then is sin circumstantiated? sin against knowledge, against means? If there be so much evil in sin, in the least sin; what then in the greatest? If Atoms be so great; How great then are Mountains? If impertinent thoughts be so sinful, as having more sin in them, than all the treasures of heaven (besides God and Christ) can expiate; what then are rebellious thoughts, contrived Murders, speculative Adulteries, contemplative wickedness, covetous Aims and Ends, contempts of God, slightings, and undervaluing of his ways? If there be so much sin and hell in a vain idle word; what a hell of sin, what mountains of wrath in your Carrion-communications, your stinking-discourses, your bloody and horrid oaths and blasphemies?

4. If sin separately considered, be so great an Evil:¹ What then is sin circumstantiated? sin against knowledge, against means? If there be so much evil in sin, in the least sin; what then in the greatest? If Atomes be so great; How great then are Mountains? If impertinent thoughts be so sinful, as having more sin in them, than all the treasures of heaven (besides God and Christ) can expiate; what then are rebellious thoughts, contrived Murders, speculative Adulteries, contemplative wickedness, covetous Aims and Ends, contempts of God, slightings, and undervaluing of his ways? If there be so much sin and hell in a vain idle word; what a hell of sin, what mountains of wrath in your Carrion-communications, your stinking-discourses, your bloody and horrid oathes and blaspemies?

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