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A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects
A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects by Stephen Charnock.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1683
A DISCOURSE OF The Pardon of Sin. › Application 3: 3 Use Of Examination.
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.
Here I shall 1. Remove false signs, whereon men rest and think themselves pardoned.
(1.) The littleness of sin is no ground of pardon. Oh may some say, my sins are little, some tricks of youth, some petty oaths or the like. The Scripture saith that Drunkards, Fornicators, Extortioners and Covetous, shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; not Great Drunkards only, but those that are drunk but now and then, as well as those that are Drunkards every day.
[1.] Dost thou know the malignity of the least sin? No sin can be called absolutely, (though it may comparatively) little. Is it a little God who is offended by sin? Is it a little wrath which is poured down on sin? Is it a little Christ that hath dyed for sin? Is it a little Soul that is destroyed by sin? and is it a little Hell that is prepared for sin? Is not the least sin Deicidium, as much as in a man lieth, a destroying of God? Did not Christ shed his blood for the least as well as for the greatest? Is not Hell kindled by the breath of the Lord for the least as well as the greatest sins? Is that little which is Gods burden, Christs wound, the Spirits grief, the penitents sorrow and the Devils Hell? Every drop of poison, is poison every drop of Hell is Hell, every part of sin is sin, and hath the destroying and condemning nature of sin. Can Angels expiate the least sin, or can a thousand worlds be a sufficient recompense for the injury that is done to God by the least sin?
[1.] Dost thou know the malignity of the least sin? No sin can be called absolutely, (though it may comparatively) little. Is it a little God who is offended by sin? Is it a little wrath which is poured down on sin? Is it a little Christ that hath dyed for sin? Is it a little Soul that is destroyed by sin? and is it a little Hell that is prepared for sin? Is not the least sin Deicidium, as much as in a man lieth, a destroying of God? Did not Christ shed his blood for the least as well as for the greatest? Is not Hell kindled by the breath of the Lord for the least as well as the greatest sins? Is that little which is Gods burden, Christs wound, the Spirits grief, the penitents sorrow and the Devils Hell? Every drop of poison, is poison every drop of Hell is Hell, every part of sin is sin, and hath the destroying and condemning nature of sin. Can Angels expiate the least sin, or can a thousand worlds be a sufficient recompence for the injury that is done to God by the least sin?