The application of redemption

1 To lighten the evil of sin, that it is not so heinous and dangerous a matter as Ministers seem to make it. 2 If it were so dangerous, yet the danger may easily be prevented. 3 If it cannot be prevented, yet it may be suffered without any such extreme hazard, as many fear, and others would bear the world in hand.

1 To lighten the evil of sin, that it is not so hainous and dangerous a matter as Ministers seem to make it. 2 If it were so dangerous, yet the danger may easily be prevented. 3 If it cannot be prevented, yet it may be suffered without any such extream hazard, as many fear, and others would bear the world in hand.

To remove these out of the way, that so the Work of Conviction may go on with more success, we shall shortly speak to all of them in the Order propounded.

To remove these out of the way, that so the Work of Conviction may go on with more success, we shal shortly speak to all of them in the Order propounded.

It's incident to all men naturally to have a slight apprehension §1of their sin; partly they do not know it, partly they are loth to be troubled and disquieted with it; and therefore out of their own ignorance and security they would easily persuade themselves, it's not so heinous and dangerous, that so they may not fear so much to commit, nor care so much to reform them when once they are fallen, nor yet suffer themselves to be overborne with terror and discouragement, though they continue in them. This lessening of the heinousness and dangerousness of sin issues upon a four-fold Ground for the most part.