A Body of Practical Divinity

I shall show what an heinous and execrable thing Sin is. It is malorum colluvies, the complication of all Evil; it is the Spirits of Mischief distilled: The Scripture calls it [Greek or Hebrew] the accursed thing, Josh. 7.13. it is compared to the venom of Serpents, the stench of Sepulchres. The Apostle useth this expression of sin, out of measure sinful, Rom. 7.13. or as in the Greek, [Greek or Hebrew], hyperbolically sinful. The Devil would paint over sin with the Vermilion colour of Pleasure and Profit, that he may make it look fair. But I shall pull off the Paint from Sin, that you may see the ugly face of it. We are apt to have slight thoughts of Sin, and to say of it as Lot of Zoar, Gen. 19.20. Is it not a little one? But that you may see how great an Evil Sin is, consider these four things.

I shall shew what an heinous and execrable thing Sin is. It is malorum colluvies, the complication of all Evil; it is the Spirits of Mischief distil'd: The Scripture calls it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the accursed thing, Josh. 7.13. it is compared to the venome of Serpents, the stench of Sepulchres. The Apostle useth this expression of sin, out of measure sinful, Rom. 7.13. or as in the Greek, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, hyperbolically sinful. The Devil would paint over sin with the Vermilion colour of Pleasure and Profit, that he may make it look fair. But I shall pull off the Paint from Sin, that you may see the ugly face of it. We are apt to have slight thoughts of Sin, and to say of it as Lot of Zoar, Gen. 19.20. Is it not a little one? But that you may see how great an Evil Sin is, consider these four things.