Gospel-conversation

Answ. Hence then, your own reason cannot but make a consequence from this that the Gospel holds forth. Hence then, Cast away all sin as an abominable thing from you; What have I to do any more with Idols? Hence then, Call no sin little which so much provokes the Lord. Indeed if you were only acted by the light of reason, reason perhaps will tell you that such things are but little and small, and you need make no such great matter about them. But now, Art not thou a Christian? A follower of Christ? A friend to the Gospel? For shame call no sin little; for in the Gospel you see the infinite hatred of God against all sin, yea, there is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction whatsoever (that's a point that hath been long since opened to you at large, and this will show it clearly, there is more evil in any sin than in the greatest affliction, by the dealing of God the Father with his Son) and therefore if you will be willing to live as becomes the Gospel of Christ, rather be willing to bear any affliction in the world than wilfully to commit the least sin: Are these two in the balance? Here is a great and a sore cross, you think, how shall I endure that? On the other side, Here's a sin to be committed; if I venture upon this sin, it may be I shall be delivered from this affliction? Now would this become the Gospel of Christ, for one that professes that he doth believe that God the Father dealt thus with His Son, that had sin but by imputation upon Him, that He let out the vials of His wrath upon Him, and made Him a curse for sin; and if Christ had but undertaken for to have satisfied for one sin, though the least sin, He must have died for it, For the wages of sin, is death! of sin indefinitely, it's death: And do I ⟨p. 83⟩believe this, and yet shall I rather choose the commission of a sin than the bearing of any affliction? Oh this is infinitely unbeseeming the Gospel of Jesus Christ: do I believe this, and is it real unto my soul? Oh let me then manifest in my whole course and life that I tremble at the very thought of a sin, at the appearance of evil, and am as much afraid of the least spark of lusts as of the fire of Hell:

Answ. Hence then, your own reason cannot but make a consequence from this that the Gospel holds forth. Hence then, Cast away al sin as an abominable thing from you; What have I to do any more with Idols? Hence then, Call no sin little which so much provokes the Lord. Indeed if you were only acted by the light of reason, reason perhaps will tell you that such things are but little and smal, and you need make no such great matter about them. But now, Art not thou a Christian? A follower of Christ? A friend to the Gospel? For shame call no sin little; for in the Gospel you see the infinit hatred of God against all sin, yea, there is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction whatsoever (that's a point that hath been long since opened to you at large, and this will shew it cleerly, there is more evil in any sin than in the greatest affliction, by the dealing of God the Father with his Son) and therefore if you will be willing to live as becomes the Gospel of Christ, rather be willing to bear any affliction in the world than wilfully to commit the least sin: Are these two in the ballance? Here is a great and a sore cross, you think, how shall I endure that? On the other side, Here's a sin to be committed; if I venture upon this sin, it may be I shall be delivered from this affliction? Now would this become the Gospel of Christ, for one that professes that he doth beleeve that God the Father dealt thus with His Son, that had sin but by imputation upon Him, that He let out the vials of His wrath upon Him, and made Him a curse for sin; and if Christ had but undertaken for to have satisfied for one sin, though the least sin, He must have died for it, For the wages of sin, is death! of sin indefinitly, it's death: And do I