A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

The two great Arguments by which •e Devil prevails in all his Temptations, •he Pleasure and Profit; now both of •hese do usually attend the big and more •ulky Sins; but Little Sins have usually •is aggravation left upon them, that if Men will commit them, they shall be•ome Sinners for nothing. Tell me what profit hath the Profane Spirit to be continually stewing and soaking a lust in his •wn thoughts. What profit or pleasure •ath the Common Swearer for to think himself to be but a Little Sinner in •apping out his Oaths against God and Heaven. (Were I an Epicure says one •oth piously and ingeniously) I would •ate Swearing: Were Men such as sold themselves unto all manner of sensual Delights, yet is there so little can be •trained from this common Sin that it can hardly bear the countenance or presence of a Temptation. Now if it be not the violence of Temptation that makes you •o Sin, it can be nothing else but your ⟨p. 60⟩own wilfulness that makes you thus to Sin. Now wilfulness is the measure o• all guilt, according as your Sins are more or less wilful, so are you the more or le• sinful. Now it is not the Devil's Temptations, but your own wilfulness that run• you upon the Commission of Little Sins; and this is it that aggravates and heightens them; you Sin voluntarily without compulsion, and so by Mystery of Iniquity you make your selves Great Sinners by committing Little Sins.

The two great Arguments by which •e Devil prevails in all his Temptations, he Pleasure and Profit; now both of hese do ususally attend the big and more ulky Sins; but Little Sins have usually is aggravation left upon them, that if Men will commit them, they shall beome Sinners for nothing. Tell me what rofit hath the Profane Spirit to be connually stewing and soaking a lust in his wn thoughts. What profit or pleasure ath the Common Swearer for to think imself to be but a Little Sinner in apping out his Oaths against God and Heaven. (Were I an Epicure says one oth piously and ingeniously) I would ate Swearing: Were Men such as sold hemselves unto all manner of sensual Delights, yet is there so little can be trained from this common Sin that it can ardly bear the countenance or presence of a Temptation. Now if it be not the iolence of Temptation that makes you o Sin, it can be nothing else but your