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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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Corollaries and Consequences from all the former Particulars. › Chapter 50
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Certainly if Sin be all that which you have heard, or read, well might the Holy Ghost say, A wounded spirit, who can bear? A man may sustain his infirmities, whatsoever his infirmities and troubles are in the world, it is no great matter to sustain them; but a wounded spirit who can bear? for a wounded spirit seeth it hath to deal ⟨p. 388⟩with the Infinite God, the Glorious Eternal Deity: and you must not tell such a one of Melancholiness, and such grounds of trouble; for such a one knows, the Arrows of the Almighty stick in his heart, and it is another manner of business than so. I might here have enlarged my self, and have spoken much to those that have such mean apprehensions of trouble of conscience for sin; and have showed the difference between melancholy and trouble of conscience for sin; but I shall not at present, only I shall wind up all now briefly, and prosecute it further in the next Chapter. Certainly it is not melancholiness, it is another manner of business than melancholiness. What think you of the Lord Christ himself in his Agony? that sweat drops of water and blood, which you see was the fruit of Sin? was that melancholy? certainly that was of the same nature that the troubled in conscience feel for sin. The Angels that sinned against God, the Devils themselves, they are not capable of melancholiness, they have no bodies; and yet none have such horrors for sin as they have: And so the souls of wicked men many times they have horrid apprehensions of the wrath of God for sin. But certainly, if the souls of wicked men and women go out of their bodies without pardon, the very first instant the soul is departed from the body, it hath other manner of horrid, dreadful, and dismal, apprehensions of the wrath of God for sin, then ever it had before. I remember further, Luther had such a Speech concerning trouble of Conscience ⟨p. 389⟩for Sin, in his Comment upon Genesis; It is a harder matter to Comfort an Afflicted Conscience for Sin, than to raise one from the Dead. This was a Speech of Luther, he saw what was in an Afflicted Conscience for sin.
Certainly if Sin be all that which you have heard, or read, well might the Holy Ghost say, A wounded spirit, who can bear? A man may sustain his infirmities, whatsoever his infirmities and troubles are in the world, it is no great matter to sustain them; but a wounded spirit who can bear? for a wounded spirit seeth it hath to deal