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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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3, This trusting in our own Righteousness and not in Christ solely is a Spiritual sin; It's a sickness not of the body but of the soul, and so the greater sin; All sins that are immediately subjected in the soul, have the greater guilt and defilement, ceteris paribus, more then any bodily sins; As the Schoolmens Rule is, The sins of the Spirit are maioris reatus, but bodily sins maioris infamiae, We see it in the Devils, Their sins are wholly sins of the Spirit, and are therefore called unclean spirits, yet they are more sinful then men; Therefore they are called spiritual wickednesses in high places, Eph. 6. Though then these sins of spiritual pride and secret confidence in our selves do not make a noise in the world, and bring reproach as bodily sins do, yet in other respects they may be of a crimson colour […] •loudy aggravation; They are a corruption of the best and choicest part •hin thee, and therefore look not only to outward but inward heart-sins.
3, This trusting in our own Righteousnesse and not in Christ solely is a Spirituall sin; It's a sicknesse not of the body but of the soul, and so the greater sinne; All sinnes that are immediatly subjected in the soul, have the greater guilt and defilement, ceteris paribus, more then any bodily sinnes; As the Schoolmens Rule is, The sinnes of the Spirit are maioris reatus, but bodily sinnes maioris infamiae, We see it in the Devils, Their sinnes are wholly sinnes of the Spirit, and are therefore called vnclean spirits, yet they are more sinfull then men; Therefore they are called spirituall wickednesses in high places, Eph. 6. Though then these sinnes of spirituall pride and secret confidence in our selves do not make a noise in the world, and bring reproach as bodily sinnes doe, yet in other respects they may be of a crimson colour 〈…〉 •loudy aggravation; They are a corruption of the best and choicest part •hin thee, and therefore look not only to outward but inward heart-sins.