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An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of…
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols.
London: printed by W.B. for Will. Hope, 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. The third difference of sin of Commission;
Is,1 when any Man sinneth upon knowledge, but yet of infirmity, as when a Man fearing some eminent danger, or when a Man amazed at the horror of death, doth against his knowledge deny that truth, which otherwise he would acknowledge and embrace: Such was the fall of Peter, arising from the rashness of his mind, mingled with some fear.
Is,1 when any Man sinneth upon knowledge, but yet of infirmity, as when a Man fearing some eminent danger, or when a Man amazed at the horrour of death, doth against his knowledge deny that truth, which otherwise he would acknowledge and embrace: Such was the fall of Peter, arising from the rashness of his minde, mingled with some fear.
- 1Sin of knowledge.
Thus do men offend by the strength of the corruptions of their flesh, provoking them to that which their heart doth detest, Rom. 7. 19.