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3. Else a man will live and continue in sin. If sin had been a greater evil to Pilate then the loss of Caesars friendship, he would never have crucified Christ. If sin had been a greater evil to Jehu then the loss of his Kingdom, he had never kept up the two calves. If sin were a greater evil then poverty, shame, grief in this world, many a Professor would never lose Christ and a good conscience too, for a little gain, profit or honour. Beloved, the great curse and wrath of the Lord upon all men in the world almost is this, that the greatest evils should be least of all felt; and the smallest evils most of all complained of. What is death that only separates thy soul from thy body, to sin that separates God blessed for ever from thy soul? and therefore the Lord Jesus will remove this curse from those he saves.¹

3. Else a man will live and continue in sinne. If sinne had been a greater evill to Pilate then the losse of Caesars friendship, hee would never have crucified Christ. If sinne had been a greater evill to Iehu then the losse of his Kingdome, he had never kept up the two calves. If sinne were a greater evill then poverty, shame, griefe in this world, many a Professor would never lose Christ and a good conscience too, for a little gaine, profit or honour. Beloved, the great curse and wrath of the Lord upon all men in the world almost is this, that the greatest evils should be least of all felt; and the smallest evils most of all complained of. What is death that onely separates thy soule from thy body, to sin that separates God blessed for ever from thy soule? and therefore the Lord Jesus will remove this curse from those he saves.¹

1. 1Acts 3.26.

¹But you will say, What is that evil the soul sees at this time in sin, that thus affects the heart with it, as the greatest