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The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises
The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ...The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ...
London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657
Title page typeset from the transcription.
SIN THE GREATEST EVIL▪ › USE.SINNE THE GREATEST EVIL▪ › USE.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
USE.
Now if it be so, Then see what need we have to Aggravate sin to the utmost in our confessions of sin; because all we can say of it, will fall infinitely short of the Heinousness of sin.
Now if it be so, Then see what need we have to Aggravate sin to the utmost in our confessions of sin; because all we can say of it, will fall infinitely short of the Ha•nousness of sin.
You can aggravate no sin so high, as to raise it above it self as to make sin greater than it is. You can have No Magnifying Glass, to greaten sin above the Greatness of it. You have such Glasses: to make greater other things above their own highness; which are able to present small things great; mean things, of vast bigness: But you have no Glass to multiply sin, and make sin appear Bigger than it is.
You can aggravate no sin so high, as to raise it above it selfe as to make sin greater than it is. You can have No Magnifying Glass, to greaten sin above the Greatness of it. You have such Glasses: to make greater other things above their own higness; which are able to present small things great; mean things, of vast bigness: But you have no Glass to multiply sin, and make sin appear Bigger than it is.