1. That no sin is little or small in its own nature; Though some sins have more venom in them than others, yet all are of a poisonous nature: Some sins are greater, but all are great; all are the breaches of the Law of the great, the infinite Majesty of Heaven and Earth; and that which hath an infinite object cannot be small. Est eadem ratio rotundi in nummulo exiguo, quae est in magno, there is the same reason of roundness in a small piece of money, as in the greatest: and there is the same reason of sin in small sins, that there is in the most heinous, because it is committed against the same Law of the same God. See Jam. 2. 10, 11. Wh•soever shall keep the whole Law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the Law. Though you should refrain some sins, yet if you venture to commit others, though they be less sins, and allow your selves therein, you break the Law of the same God, and are under the guilt and power of sin, and as equally liable to the punishment of sin, as those which live in the practice of those which are most notorious: And let me tell you, that it is as hard to get a pardon for those sins which you call small ones, as for the greatest; God can as easily pardon the one as the other; the smallest sins require the infinite mercy of God, and the infinite merits of Christ for their pardon; therefore no sin is in it self small.
1. That no sin is little or small in its own nature; Though some sins have more venome in them than others, yet all are of a poisonous nature: Some sins are greater, but all are great; all are the breaches of the Law of the great, the infinite Majesty of Heaven and Earth; and that which hath an infinite object cannot be small. Est eadem ratio rotundi in nummulo exiguo, quae est in magno, there is the same reason of roundness in a small piece of money, as in the greatest: and there is the same reason of sin in small sins, that there is in the most heinous, because it is committed against the same Law of the same God. See Jam. 2. 10, 11. Wh•soever shall keep the whole Law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the Law. Though you should refrain some sins, yet if you venture to commit others, though they be less sins, and allow your selves therein, you break the Law of the same God, and are under the guilt and power of sin, and as equally liable to the punishment of sin, as those which live in the practice of those which are most notorious: And let me tell you, that it is as hard to get a pardon for those sins which you call small ones, as for the greatest; God can as easily pardon the one as the other; the smallest sins require the infinite mercy of God, and the infinite merits of Christ for their pardon; therefore no sin is in it self small.
