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

1. Every Sin is a Transgression of the Law of God. For nothing else can give it that denomination; and truly this puts a black character upon it. It cannot be a light matter, which the great God put so much weight upon, as to insert it in that Law by which he Governs men to an everlasting state of Happiness or misery; and yet thi• respect hath every sin.

2 Hence every sin brings men under the Guilt of Death. Though there be degrees in it, yet there is but one kind of punishment put into the threatening for Sin, and that is death, which i• the wages of sin, Rom. 6. 23. So that the ma• is obnoxious, if it be but a vain thought, or an id• word, or whatever in the least falls short of the perfect Obedience required: he is laid under the Sentence, and held fast by it.

2 Hence every sin brings men under the Guilt of Death. Though there be degrees in it, yet there is but one kind of punishment put into the threatning for Sin, and that is death, which i• the wages of sin, Rom. 6. 23. So that the ma• is obnoxious, if it be but a vain thought, or an id• word, or whatever in the least falls short of the perfect Obedience required: he is laid under the Sentence, and held fast by it.