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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
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CHAP. XXXVII.
XIV. Sin is worse than affliction, because it hardens the heart against God and the means of Grace.
The opposition Sin hath to our own good, It hath more evil against our selves than any Affliction; & for the manifesting that we have opened Thirteen Particulars: Thus far we have gone. There is two Particulars more to discover the evil of sin as against our good more than afflictions.
THe opposition Sin hath to our own good, It hath more evil against our selves than any Affliction; & for the manifesting that we have opened Thirteen Particulars: Thus far we have gone. There is two Particulars more to discover the evil of sin as against our good more than afflictions.
XIV. Sin is worse than Affliction as against our selves, For it is that which hardens the heart against God, and the means of Grace more than any Affliction. I do not speak now of hardening the heart against God in opposition to him; but ⟨p. 298⟩as in opposition to our own good that we should receive from God, in the use of the means of grace; and so Sin is more opposite to our good than Afflictions Affliction rather, usually, doth further the means of grace, and prepare the heart for the entertaining of the means of grace; affliction doth: But Sin hardens the heart against it, and hinders the efficacy of the means of grace upon the souls of men and women;