A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

¹Sixthly, Little Sins have in them ordinarily less of Temptation than othe• Sins have, and therefore they have mo• of wilfulness in them. If it be no excu• of Sin, yet certainly it is a ground o• pity and commiseration, when those fall into the Commission of Sin, who a• assaulted and haunted with most violent and eager Temptations; when the Devi• will not let them alone for a moment time, but pursues them from place to place, and though they once and again eject and resist him, yet still he forceth his Temptations upon them: If such a• these are at length overcome by those impudent importunities of that Evil One this their yielding requires our pity, and i• may be shall more easily obtain God• pardoning Grace and Mercy. But thou that ordinarily committest those tha• thou callest Little Sins, hast no such alleviation for them. What Temptation canst thou plead? Doth the Devil continually dog thee with such solicitations and persuasions, that though thou wouldst yet thou canst not resist; no• certainly, when the Powers of Hell ar• themselves against a Soul, it is to more advantage, than the Commission of a ⟨p. 59⟩•ittle Sin, Little Sins have scarce any •ny other Temptation to enforce them •esides the commonness and customariness of committing them.

¹Sixthly, Little Sins have in them ordinarily less of Temptation than othe• Sins have, and therefore they have mo of wilfulness in them. If it be no excu of Sin, yet certainly it is a ground o pity and commiseration, when thos fall into the Commission of Sin, who a assaulted and haunted with most violen and eager Temptations; when the Devi will not let them alone for a moment time, but pursues them from place to place, and though they once and again eject and resist him, yet still he forceth his Temptations upon them: If such a these are at length overcome by those impudent importunities of that Evil One this their yeilding requires our pity, and i may be shall more easily obtain God pardoning Grace and Mercy. But thou that ordinarily committest those tha thou callest Little Sins, hast no such alleviation for them. What Temptation canst thou plead? Doth the Devil continually dogg thee with such sollicitations and perswasions, that though thou wouldst yet thou canst not resist; no certainly, when the Powers of Hell ar themselves against a Soul, it is to more advantage, than the Commission of a