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And thus I have done with the Doctrinal Part of the Text; I now come to make some Application of it.

Use 1 And the First Use shall be by way of Corollary: If so be that little Sins have in them so much danger and guilt as hath been demonstrated to you, what shall we then think of great and notorious Impieties? If Sands will sink a Man so deep into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, how deep then will their Hell be that are plunged into it with Talents of Lead bound upon their Souls? Whilst I have been setting forth the Aggravations of the great Evil that there is in little Sins, possibly some profane Spirit or other may thus argue; if little Sins be so dangerous and damning, then, since it is utterly impossible to keep our selves free from all Sins whatever, what need I scruple the greatest Sin more than the least? I am stated down under a necessity of sinning, and I am told that the rate that every Sin will stand me in, is eternal Death; the least is not less, and the greatest is no more: It is but ridiculous Folly for a Malefactor nicely to ⟨p. 83⟩shun the Dirt, and pick out the cleaner •ath, when he is going to Execution: •nd so it is but a Folly for me to go the •raiter and severer way to Hell; and •herefore since there is no difference between Sins in the end, but all alike lead •own to the same Destruction, I will put •o difference between them in my practice. But let such presumptuous Sin•ers know,

Ʋse 1 And the First Use shall be by way of Corollary: If so be that little Sins have in them so much danger and guilt as hath been demonstrated to you, what shall we then think of great and notorious Impieties? If Sands will sink a Man so deep into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, how deep then will their Hell be that are plunged into it with Talents of Lead bound upon their Souls? Whilst I have been setting forth the Aggravations of the great Evil that there is in little Sins, possibly some prophane Spirit or other may thus argue; if little Sins be so dangerous and damning, then, since it is utterly impossible to keep our selves free from all Sins whatever, what need I scruple the greatest Sin more than the least? I am stated down under a necessity of sinning, and I am told that the rate that every Sin will stand me in, is eternal Death; the least is not less, and the greatest is no more: It is but ridiculous Folly for a Malefactor nicely to