A Body of Practical Divinity

2. It is a crying Sin. Clamitat in Coelum vox Sanguinis—There are three Sins in Scripture said to cry. (1.) Oppression, Psal. 12.5. (2.) Sodomy, Gen. 18.21. (3.) Blood-shed. This comes so loud, that it drowns all the other Cries. Gen. 4.10. The Voice of thy Brothers Blood cries unto me from the Ground. Abel's Blood had as many Tongues as Drops to cry aloud for Vengeance. This Sin of Blood lay heavy on David's Conscience. Tho he had sinned by Adultery, yet that he cried out of most was, this Crimson Sin of Blood. Psal. 51.14. Deliver me from Blood-guiltiness, O God. Tho the Lord visits for every Sin, yet he will in a special manner make Inquisition for Blood, Psal. 9.12. If a Beast did kill a Man, the Beast was to be stoned, and his Flesh must not be eaten, Exod. 21.8. If God would have a Beast stoned that killed a Man, who had not the Use of Reason to restrain him, then much more will he be incensed against those, who go both against Reason and Conscience in spoiling the Life of a Man.

2. It is a crying Sin. Clamitat in Coelum vox Sanguinis—There are three Sins in Scripture said to cry. (1.) Oppression, Psal. 12.5. (2.) Sodomy, Gen. 18.21. (3.) Blood-shed. This comes so loud, that it drowns all the other Cries. Gen. 4.10. The Voice of thy Brothers Blood cries unto me from the Ground. Abel's Blood had as many Tongues as Drops to cry aloud for Vengeance. This Sin of Blood lay heavy on David's Conscience. Tho he had sinned by Adultery, yet that he cried out of most was, this Crimson Sin of Blood. Psal. 51.14. Deliver me from Blood-guiltiness, O God. Tho the Lord visits for every Sin, yet he will in a special manner make Inquisition for Blood,