The Fountain of Life Opened

¹If the death of Christ was that which satisfied God for all the sins of the Elect, then certainly there is an infinite evil in sin, since it cannot be expiated, but by an infinite satisfaction. Fools make a mock of sin, and there are but few souls in the world, that are duly sensible and affected with its evil; but certainly, if God should damn thee to all eternity, thy eternal sufferings could not satisfy for the evil that is in one vain thought.² It may be you may think this is harsh and severe, that God should hold his creatures under everlasting sufferings for sin, and never be satisfied with them any more. But when you have well considered that the object against whom you sin, is the infinite blessed God; which derives an infinite evil to the sin committed against him; and when you consider how God dealt with the Angels that fell, for one sin, and that but of the mind; for having no bodily ⟨p. 175⟩organs they could commit nothing externally against God; you will alter your minds about it. O the depth of the evil of sin! If ever you will see how great and horrid an evil sin is, measure it in your thoughts; either by the infinite holiness and excellency of God, who is wronged by it; or by the infinite sufferings of Christ, who dyed to satisfy for it; and then you will have deeper apprehensions of the evil of sin.

¹If the death of Christ was that which satisfied God for all the sins of the Elect, then certainly there is an infinite evil in sin, since it cannot be expiated, but by an infinite satisfaction. Fools make a mock of sin, and there are but few souls in the world, that are duly sensible and affected with its evil; but certainly, if God should damn thee to all eternity, thy eternal sufferings could not satisfie for the evil that is in one vain thought.