A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

¹First, Consider these little Sins are those Sins whereby we continually without intermission offend against God, and provoke him against our own Souls. Still either the Matter of our Actions are ⟨p. 95⟩contrary to the Holy Will and Law of God, or the manner in which we perform them: If the Substance of our Actions are not evil, yet the Circumstances are, there's not a Word in Prayer, not a Thought in Meditation, but •ath the Guilt of some Sin cleaving to […]; and if it be so with us in our Holy Performances, how do you think then it •s with us in our common and ordinary Conversation? And should it not deeply humble us to consider, that there is •ot one hour, no, nor one moment of •ur Lives free from Sin, that our Pulses •eat too slow to keep an Account of our •ins by; our Thoughts are continual• in Motion without intermission or cessation, and yet, Every one of the Imaginations of the Thoughts of our Hearts are only •vil, and that continually, Gen. 6.5.² Certainly did we seriously consider what •t is we say, when we confess to God •hat our whole Lives are nothing but one continued course of Sin, those moments, every one of which brings fresh Guilt upon •s, would not slide away so pleasantly with us as they do; but because our Sins seem small to us, we regard them not; and so our Time wastes, and our Guilt increaseth, ⟨p. 96⟩till Eternity puts a period an• full end to those Sins, to which w• could never put any stop or intermission.