A77976:407
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.
Secondly, Sin brings a Curse upon all: I opened before how it puts man under a Curse; but now I am to show how it brings a Curse upon the whole World, Gen. 3. Cursed shall the Earth be for thy sake; and so by the same reason upon the whole World that thou hast to do withal: not only the Sinner, but through mans sin the world is under a Curse; and therefore it is a most dangerous thing for any man or woman to seek after happiness in the things of the world, when as the whole world is under a Curse, and wilt thou seek thy happiness in that which is under a Curse? no marvel though the Devil himself be called the god of this World; why? because the world is accursed through the Sin of man: Sin brings a Curse upon the whole World.
Secondlie, Sin brings a Curse upon all: I opened before how it puts man under a Curse; but now I am to shew how it brings a Curse upon the whol World, Gen. 3. Cursed shall the Earth be for thy sake; and so by the same reason upon the whol World that thou hast to do withal: not only the Sinner, but through mans sin the world is under a Curse; and therefore it is a most dangerous thing for any man or woman to seek after happiness in the things of the world, when as the whol world is under a Curse, and wilt thou seek thy happiness in that which is under a Curse? no mervail though the Devil himself be called the god of this World; why? because the world is accursed through the Sin of man: Sin brings a Curse upon the whol World.
Thirdly, Sin is a burden to Heaven and Earth, to all Creatures: Rom. 8. 22. The whole Creation groans and travels in pain to be delivered, and that through the Sin of man. Now what is the evil of Sin, when it is so weighty, that it makes the whole frame of Heaven and Earth to groan to bear the burden of it? It may be thy Sin is light to thy Soul, thou earriest it lightly, but as light as it is to thee, it is such a heavy burden to Heaven and Earth, and the whole Frame of the Creation, that if God did not hold it by his mighty Power, it would make it not only shake, but fall down.