The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

2. The pressure that men have been under by reason of one sin laid upon them. God sometimes, by Conscience, chargeth one particular sin upon a man, and when he doth it •ome, it is too much for him, especially when it is some great •nd horrid sin; or if the Conscience doth so re•ent it; and we find not that Cain was in distress •n account of any other sin but his Murder, or Judas for any thing besides his betraying his inno•nt Master; and yet how Tragical was it to •em? what then must it be to be under the •ad of innumerable Sins? to have the first •reat transgression charged on them, and that Original Sin which hath all abominations in it, and ⟨p. 50⟩a life full of uncountable and aggravated actual prevarications: certainly every one must add its proportionable weight.

2. The pressure that men have been under by reason of one sin laid upon them. God sometimes, by Conscience, chargeth one particular sin upon a man, and when he doth it •ome, it is too much for him, especially when it is some great •nd horrid sin; or if the Conscience doth so re•ent it; and we find not that Cain was in distress •n account of any other sin but his Murder, or Judas for any thing besides his betraying his inno•nt Master; and yet how Tragical was it to •em? what then must it be to be under the •ad of innumerable Sins? to have the first •reat transgression charged on them, and that O•ginal Sin which hath all abominations in it, and