A77976:326
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.
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.
Fifthly, Sin is more opposite to mans good than Affliction because tis a defilement of the Soul. 1 It defiles all a man meddleth with. 2 Sin is the matter the worm shall gnaw upon to all eternity.
Fifthly, Sin is more opposite to mans good than Affliction because tis a defilement of the Soul. 1 It defiles all a man medleth with. 2 Sin is the matter the worm shall gnaw upon to all eternity.
Fifthly, The evil of Sin against a mans good appeareth in this, In that it is the defilement and corruption of the Soul, a rottenness in the Soul. Affliction is not the filth and corruption of the Soul, the Soul may be as clear from filth and corruption, notwithstanding Affliction, as it was before man sinned. Sin, it is the rottenness of the Soul, and therefore such a kind of defilement, As,
FIfthly, The evil of Sin against a mans good appeareth in this, In that it is the defilement and corruption of the Soul, a rottenness in the Soul. Affliction is not the filth and corruption of the Soul, the Soul may be as clear from filth and corruption, notwithstanding Affliction, as it was before man sinned. Sin, it is the rottenness of the Soul, and therefore such a kind of defilement, As,
1 It defiles all things a man meddles withal, and all his actions; it makes a man vile, and defiles every thing that comes from him. To the unclean all things are unclean and impure, Tit. 1. 15. It defiles the Creature and every thing he hath to do withal, and every thing he meddles withal.
1 It defiles all things a man medles withal, and al his actions; it makes a man vile, and defiles every thing that comes from him. To the unclean all things are unclean and impure,