A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

¹Secondly, Consider, what a corrupt and depraved Nature these little Sins • flow from. When at any time we are sensible of a vain and sinful Though rising up in our Hearts, we should trace • along to the Fountain of it, even Original Corruption from whence it bubble• up: If we would but do so, we should se• great cause to be deeply humbled for that fruitful seed-plot of all manner of Sins that is in our Hearts. Many thousands of Lusts lie crawling and knotting together there that never yet saw the light; the Damned in Hell have not worse Natures in them than we have: There is no Sin how horrid so ever that they committed on Earth, or can be supposed to commit now in Hell, but we also should run into it, did not God's powerful restraints with-hold us. Now do little Sins proceed from such a Corrupt and cursed Fountain, and have we not then great cause to be humbled before the Lord for them and say, Lord, ⟨p. 97⟩here is Sin, a little Sin it is, but yet it proceeds from a Heart that hath in it the Spawn of all the greatest and vilest Sins that ever were or can be committed; and that it is but a vain Thought, and not Blasphemy, Murder, or Adultery, or any of the greatest and most crying Sins that ever were committed in the World, is to be acknowledged and attributed only to the powerful restraint of thy free Grace: For the same corrupt Fountain that sends forth this vain Thought and that idle Word, would have sent forth Blasphemy, Adultery, Atheism, or any of the vilest Abominations; but it is thy free Grace only that hath restrained us.

¹Secondly, Consider, what a corrupt and depraved Nature these little Sins • flow from. When at any time we are sensible of a vain and sinful Though rising up in our Hearts, we should trace • along to the Fountain of it, even Original Corruption from whence it bubble• up: If we would but do so, we should se• great cause to be deeply humbled for that fruitful seed-plot of all manner of Sins that is in our Hearts. Many thousands of Lusts lie crawling and knotting together there that never yet saw the light; the Damned in Hell have not worse Natures in them than we have: There is no Sin how horrid so ever that they committed on Earth, or can be supposed to commit now in Hell, but we also should run into it, did not God's powerful restraints with-hold us. Now do little Sins proceed from such a Corrupt and cursed Fountain, and have we not then great cause to be humbled before the Lord for them and say, Lord,