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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 7
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3. So opposite is sin to God, that if God should be but the cause of any sin in any other; He would instantly Cease to be a God. It strikes at the very life of God, He would cease to be God, he could be God no longer if he should be the Cause of any sin in any other. We had need take heed therefore how we father sin upon God, that he should be the cause of sin, for such is the evil of sin that God must cease to be, if he should be but any cause to give any efficacy to sin in us. Indeed for Afflictions God will own that, he saith in Amos 3. 6. Is there any evil in a City and the Lord hath not done it? and in Mich. […]. 3. it is said there that God deviseth evil: If there be no evil in the City but God doth it, yea (saith the Prophet) God deviseth evil; there is no evil of punishment, but God deviseth it, God will be content to own it, to be the Author of all the torments, of the damned in hell, God will own; God will say I have done it, and I am the Author of all the torments of all the damned in hell; but such is the evil of sin, if God were the Author of that, He could not be God any longer but would cease to be God.
3. So opposit is sin to God, that if God should be but the cause of any sin in any other; He would instantly Cease to be a God. It strikes at the very life of God, He would cease to be God, he could be God no longer if he should be the Cause of any sin in any other. We had need take heed therefore how we father sin upon God, that he should be the cause of sin, for such is the evil of sin that God must cease to be, if he should be but any cause to give any efficacy to sin in us. Indeed for Afflictions God will own that, he saith in Amos 3. 6. Is there any evil in a City and the Lord hath not done it? and in Mich. 〈…〉. 3. it is said there that God deviseth evil: If there be no evil in the City but God doth it, yea (saith the Prophet) God deviseth evil; there is no evil of punishment, but God deviseth it, God will be content to own it, to be the Author of all the torments, of the damned in hel, God will own; God will say I have done it, and I am the Author of al the torments of al the damned in hel; but such is the evil of sin, if God were the Author of that, He could not be God any longer but would cease to be God.