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

1. The greatest and vilest sins in themselves •ay be forgiven. Our Catechism tells us, that •me sin• are in themselves more heinous than others; •nd the Scripture is full for it. Not but that all •s are equally transgressions of the Law, and consequently incur the guilt of Eternal Death: •et if we consider and compare some with o•ers, there is in the things themselves more of •e malignity of the heart discovered in some •an in others: God therefore tells the Prophet, •at he will show him greater abominations, Ezek. […] 6, 13, 15. It is a sin to be angry without cause; •ut greater to commit actual Murder; a sin to murmur against God, but greater to blaspheme; •c. Now the greatest and most abominable of lose are not out of the reach of a pardon: and •e may well argue, that if Gods forgiveness ex•nds to those that are greater, it is not out bid •y those that are lesser; there are scarlet and •imson sins, and yet these may be washed away, •a. 1. 18. I might here instance in those that are ⟨p. 30⟩deservedly reputed the most odious and scandalous, and point you to such as have been horrib• guilty of them, and yet obtained mercy, and a• now glorified Saints in Heaven: we have […] whole heap of them numbered together, a• such an observation made on them,