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The Greatness of their Hatred against sin, the Greatness of their Care to avoid sin, the Greatness of their Sufferings, rather than they would commit sin, might be enough to discover to us, the Greatness of the Evil of sin. But pass by this.

2. The second Glass, wherein you may see the greatness of sin, is, The Glass of the Law.

A Glass which discovers sin in all its Dimensions, the Guilt, Demerit, Filthiness and Sinfulness of sin. Hence the Apostle, Rom. 7.7. saith—I had not known sin, but by the Law; that is, I had not known sin so heinous as it is, I had not known sin in the wideness and latitude of it: I had not known the sinfulness of sin, if it had not been for the Law, if the Law had not been a Glass to have discovered sin to me. This discovered sin in its Greatness: David, Psal. 119.96—I have seen an end of all Perfection, but thy Law is exceeding broad; that is, by revealing the compass of sin in proportion to its Wideness and Greatness.

A Glass which discovers sin in all its Dimensions, the Guilt, Demerit, Filthiness and Sinfulness of sin. Hence the Apostle, Rom. 7.7. saith—I had not known sin, but by the Law; that is, I had not known sin so hainous as it is, I had not known sin in the wideness and latitude of it: I had not known the sinfulness of sin, if it had not been for the Law, if the Law had not been a Glass to have discovered sin to me. This discovered sin in its Greatness: David, Psal. 119.96