A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

(1.) The greatest evil is taken away, sin, and the dreadful consequents of it. Other evils are temporal, but those know no period in a doleful Eternity. There is more evil in sin, than good in all the creatures. Sin stripped the fallen Angels of their Excellency, and dispossessed them of the Seat of Blessedness. It fights against God, it disparages all his Attributes, it deforms and destroys the creature, Rom. 7.13. Other evils may have some mixture of good to make them tolerable, but sin being exceeding sinful, without the mixture of any good, engenders nothing but destruction, and endless damnation. Into what miseries, afflictions, sorrows, hath that one sin of Adam hurled all his posterity? what screechings, wounds, pangs, horrors, doth it make in troubled Consciences? How did it deface the Beauty of the Son of God, that created and upheld the World, with sorrow in his Agonies, and the stroke of Death on the Cross? How many thousands, millions of poor creatures have been damned for sin, and are never like to cease roaring under an inevitable Justice? Ask the damned, and their groans, yellings, howlings, will read thee a dreadful Lecture of sins sinfulness, and the punishment of it. And is it not then an inestimable blessedness to be delivered from that, which hath wrought such deplorable Executions in the World?

(1.) The greatest evil is taken away, sin, and the dreadful consequents of it. Other evils are temporal, but those know no period in a doleful Eternity. There is more evil in sin, than good in all the creatures. Sin stript the fallen Angels of their Excellency, and dispossessed them of the Seat of Blessedness. It fights against God, it disparages all his Attributes, it deforms and destroys the creature, Rom. 7.13. Other evils may have some mixture of good to make them tolerable, but sin being exceeding sinful, without the mixture of any good, engenders nothing but destruction, and endless damnation. Into what miseries, afflictions, sorrows, hath that one sin of Adam hurl'd all his posterity? what screechings, wounds, pangs, horrours, doth it make in troubled Consciences? How did it deface the Beauty of the Son of God, that created and upheld the World, with sorrow in his Agonies, and the stroak of Death on the Cross? How many thousands, millions of poor creatures have been damned for sin, and are never like to cease roaring under an inevitable Justice? Ask the damned, and their groans, yellings, howlings, will read thee a dreadful Lecture of sins sinfulness, and the punishment of it. And is it not then an inestimable blessedness to be delivered from that, which hath wrought such deplorable Executions in the World?