A77976:448
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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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 hath a kind of infiniteness in it in that it is the Universal Cause of all Evil: As God appears to be an infinite good, because he is the universal cause of all good; this doth much set out the infiniteness of Gods goodness in that he is the universal cause of all good So it doth set out the infiniteness of Sin, in that Sin is the universal cause of all evil, all evils flow from it. This is the Fifth Thing.
Fifthly, Sin hath a kind of infiniteness in it in that it is the Ʋniversal Cause of all Evil: As God appears to be an infinite good, because he is the universal cause of all good; this doth much set out the infiniteness of Gods goodness in that he is the universal cause of all good So it doth set out the infiniteness of Sin, in that Sin is the universal cause of all evil, all evils flow from it. This is the Fifth Thing.
Sixthly, There is an infiniteness of Evil in Sin; it appeareth thus, That as the infiniteness of good in God is shadowed out unto us by all good things, and in as much as we and the Scripture makes use of all good things to shadow out the goodness of God, this manifests an infiniteness of good in him: So in as much as the Scripture makes use of all kind of Evil things, only to set and shadow out the evil in sin; this makes it appear there is a kind of infiniteness of Evil in it: As thus, That all those Creatures, Vipers, Serpents, Dogs, Cockatrices, Dragons, Wolves: all deadly Creatures the Scripture makes use of but to shadow out the evil in Sin. As if the Holy Ghost should say, do you see any evil in such Creatures that you account the worst: put them all together, and that is in Sin and more. So take all kinds of uncleanness, the vomit of a dog menstruous Clothes, all this doth but shadow out the evil in Sin. Look at sicknesses, leprosies, plague, and death it self, and darkness, any hideous evil, all these do but shadow out the evil of Sin. We might mention many more to show you the evil of Sin. And in that the Scripture makes use of so many evil things to show ⟨p. 354⟩the evil of Sin. This shows Sin hath a kind of infiniteness in it.