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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.
Corollaries and Consequences from all the former Particulars. › Chapter 51
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such a one doth account a Messenger and Interpreter that shall be able to declare the way of Righteousness, and show him a ransom how to be delivered from sin; he accounts him a man of a thousand; Oh he is a man of a thousand: whereas, if he should come thus before, •he were no body, and the Word nothing, a mere silly business; but now he is a man of a thousand, Oh such a Messenger, let such a one come and welcome: And therefore you shall have many men slight a conscientious Minister in their health, and prise those that preach slightly; but in their sickness, when conscience is open, they will not send to a slight vain Minister, that preach and never touch conscience; but they will have those that have preached most to Conscience, they shall be most prised by them upon their sick and death beds; when Conscience is awake, such a one will be one of a thousand then. This is the Sixth.
such a one doth account a Messenger and Interpreter that shal be able to declare the way of Righteousness, and shew him a ransom how to be delivered from sin; he accounts him a man of a thousand; Oh he is a man of a thousand: wheras, if he should come thus before, •he were no body, and the Word nothing, a meer silly business; but now he is a man of a thousand, Oh such a Messenger, let such a one come and welcome: And therefore you shall have many men slight a consciencious Minister in their health, and prise those that preach slightly; but in their sickness, when conscience is open, they will not send to a slight vain Minister, that preach and never touch conscience; but they will have those that have preached most to Conscience, they shall be most prised by them upon their sick and death beds; when Conscience is awake, such a one will be one of a thousand then. This is the Sixt.
Seventhly and lastly, and indeed one of the Principallest; and I desire all those that have had slight thoughts of trouble of conscience for sin to attend to it; & it is this: Those slight thoughts of thine about trouble of conscience for sin, they are a high degree of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. If I make this plain, that they be guilty of a high degree of Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, (this should we the hearts of men and women, and make them take heed what they do, in giving way to these vain thoughts, about trouble