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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.
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.
CHAP. XXXIV.
XI. Sin is more opposite to mans good than affliction, for that sin make all the Creatures of God at enmity with a sinner.
XI. Further, in the next place, The evil that sin hath beyond all the evil of Affliction is this: That sin, it doth make all the Creatures of God to be at an enmity with a sinner: I say, sin puts a sinner in this condition, that all the Creatures of God are Enemies unto the sinner; they be all as the Host of God that come out against a sinner, ready armed with Gods wrath, ready bent to execute the wrath of God against a sinner: the Creatures of God are called Gods Host, not only because they be armed with Gods wrath, but because there is in them a propensity to destroy those sinners that sin against the God of their Being. Every Creature is ready and doth as it were cry to God, Oh Lord, when wilt thou give me commission to take away such a wretch, Lord, such a one is a ⟨p. 289⟩filthy, wretched Blasphemer, a Sabbath breaker, a drunkard, and thou livest all this while, and hast been at peace, and yet they are still crying, Lord, shall I go and take him away, and send him to his own place? If thou couldest hear it, all the Creatures in the world cry thus, and they be all desirous to send thee to thy own place, and take thee away. My thinks when I see a sinner, I hear all the Creatures cry as he in the […] Sam. 16. 9. Abishai the son of Zerviah; Abishai was one of Davids Soldiers, when Shimei cursed David: Shall I go and cut off this dead Dogs neck? So he saith concerning Shimei, Let me go over I pray thee, and take off his head; why should this dead Dog curse my Lord? So when thou art blaspheming God, the Creatures look upon thee with disdain, and they rise against thee, and all the Creatures say, Oh this dead Dog, this wretched Creature, how long shall he live to blaspheme God? shall I cut off his head? shall I go and send him down to his own place? It would terrify thy heart if thou shouldest hear every Creature crying to God to be thy Executioner from him. And certainly when God gives commission, and God falls upon thee, every Creature will fall upon thee: As you read in the