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The Evil of Evils
The eighth book of Mr Jeremiah Burroughs. Being a treatise of the evil of evils, or the exceeding sinfulness of sin. Wherein is showed, 1 There is more evil in the least sin, than there is in the greatest affliction. 2 Sin is most opposite to God. 3 Sin is most opposite to mans good. 4 Sin is opposite to all good in general. 5 Sin is the poison, or evil of all other evils. 6 Sin hath a kind of infiniteness in it. 7 Sin makes a man conformable to the Devil. All these several heads are branched out into very many particulars. / Published by Thomas Goodwin, William Bridge, Sydrach Simpson, William Adderly, [double brace] William Greenhil, Philip Nigh, John Yates.The eighth book of Mr Jeremiah Burroughs. Being a treatise of the evil of evils, or the exceeding sinfulness of sin. Wherein is shewed, 1 There is more evil in the least sin, than there is in the greatest affliction. 2 Sin is most opposite to God. 3 Sin is most opposite to mans good. 4 Sin is opposite to all good in general. 5 Sin is the poyson, or evil of all other evils. 6 Sin hath a kind of infiniteness in it. 7 Sin makes a man conformable to the Devil. All these several heads are branched out into very many particulars. / Published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Bridge, Sydrach Sympson, William Adderly, [double brace] William Greenhil, Philip Nye, John Yates.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1654
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE EVIL of EVILS: OR, The Exceeding Sinfulness OF SIN. › Chapter 5
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
TO go on to that which remains. I am yet further to make out to you, That Sin is worse than Affliction. First I have showed, that there is no good at all in Sin; and there is good in Affliction.
TO go on to that which remains. I am yet further to make out to you, That Sin is worse than Affliction. First I have shewed, that there is no good at all in Sin; and there is good in Affliction.
Now Secondly, There is more Evil in the least Sin, than there is in the greatest Affliction.
This I am now to make out unto you in these Six Particulars.
First, Sin is most opposite unto God himself, the chiefest Good. Secondly, Sin is most opposite unto Mans good: Affliction is not so opposite to the good of the Creature as Sin is. Thirdly, Sin is opposite unto all Good in General; and so will be discovered to be an Universal Evil. Fourthly, Sin, it is the Evil of all other Evils; it is that which is the very venom and poison of all other Evils whatsoever, therefore greatest. Fifthly, There is a kind of Infiniteness in sin, though not properly Infinite, it cannot be so, yet in the Nature of it, it hath a kind of infiniteness. Sixthly, The Evil of it is discovered, In the conformity sin hath with the Devil; there is no Creature that conspires against God, but only Devils and Sinful Men.