A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

¹Thirdly, The more quiet & calm your Affections are when you sin, the more free you are from the hurryings & perturbations of Passions when you sin, the more presumptuous ⟨p. 169⟩are your Sins. Indeed it is no sufficient excuse that you sin in a Passion, no more than it is for a Murderer to say he was drunk when he did it; but yet this takes off something from the presumption in sinning. Then a man is a •old and arrogant Sinner, when he can sin calmly, and bid defiance to God and Heaven in cold Blood. Now St. Peter's Denial of Christ, it was from the excessive Passion of Fear that then surprised him, and scattered his Graces; but when that Passion was over, he recruited again; but now Judas had no Passion; but the wickedness of his own heart wrought quietly and calmly in him to the betraying of his Master. When the winds rage violently, no wonder if sometimes the tallest Cedars are overthrown by them; but those Trees that fall of their own accord, when the Air is still and calm, it is a certain sign they were rotten: So it is in this Case; when the Tempest of Passion rageth, be it Fear, or any other Passion and Perturbation of the Mind, no wonder if sometimes the tallest and the strongest Christians fall, are cast down, and overwhelmed by it; but if men fall into Sin when their intellectuals ⟨p. 170⟩are clear, and when their Reason is calm and undisturbed, truly this is a certain sign these Men are rotten, and these presumptuous sins have gotten dominion over them, for they fall like rotten Trees of their own accord without any Tempest of Passion to sti• them.

¹Thirdly, The more quiet & calm your Affections are when you sin, the more free you are from the hurryings & perturbations of Passions when you sin, the more presumptuous ⟨p. 169⟩are your Sins. Indeed it is no sufficient excuse that you sin in a Passion, no more than it is for a Murtherer to say he was drunk when he did it; but yet this takes off something from the presumption in sinning. Then a man is a old and arrogant Sinner, when he can sin calmly, and bid defiance to God and Heaven in cold Blood. Now St. Peter's Denial of Christ, it was from the excessive Passion of Fear that then surprized him, and scattered his Graces; but when that Passion was over, he recruited again; but now Judas had no Passion; but the wickedness of his own heart wrought quietly and calmly in him to the betraying of his Master. When the winds rage violently, no wonder if sometimes the tallest Cedars are overthrown by them; but those Trees that fall of their own accord, when the Air is still and calm, it is a certain sign they were rotten: So it is in this Case; when the Tempest of Passion rageth, be it Fear, or any other Passion and Perturbation of the Mind, no wonder if sometimes the tallest and the strongest Christians fall, are cast down, and overwhelmed by it; but if men fall into Sin when their intellectuals