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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 51
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Object. But we see by experience men and women troubled for Sin, be very melancholy, and heavy.
Object. But we see by experience men and women troubled for Sin, be very melancholly, and heavy.
Answ. To speak to this: True, sometimes God may be pleased to sanctify, even that humour of melancholiness, so as to further such a work as this; yea, God may cause a work on Conscience to be furthered by melancholy, and yet a great deal of difference between melancholy and this.
Answ. To speak to this: True, sometimes God may be pleased to sanctifie, even that humor of melancholliness, so as to further such a work as this; yea, God may cause a work on Conscience to be furthered by melancholly, and yet a great deal of difference between melancholly and this.
1 As first, God may make use of melancholy to bring in trouble of conscience: as thus; If it be not too prevailing, to besot men and women, as sometimes it doth; but if it be no more prevailing but thus, to make men seriously consider, and ponder, and weigh things, then God makes use of a degree of melancholy, to make men and women to know themselves; and sin, and the things of their Eternal Estate, and such a melancholy is a blessed melancholy, and you have cause to bless God for it. Melancholy in some inferior things is very useful; and the Philosophers say, That the most Eminent men in the world for great matters, were melancholy, because they were serious in their thoughts; whereas other men be of slight, vain, frothy Spirits. Many that never had melancholy, they conceive of things, and it passeth, and they never •ay any thing to heart, they never knew what it was for one half hour to be serious in their thoughts all their lives: Many that be Sanguine, be of a light, vain spirit, and it is a