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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 59
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this ads as great dishonour unto God as the former Sin did. When a man or a woman commits Sin, they dishonour God in that; but being not sensible of it after committed, is a greater dishonour to God than the commission of it was: and the longer they continue unsensible of their sin, the more desperate their Sin against God grows: for if thou hast not any sense of Sin, but goest on, in a little time thou mayest come to be past feeling, as the Scripture hath the Phrase, being past feeling: So many men and women, first they begin not to be troubled for sin, and put it off; at length they come to be past feeling, and if thy heart be unsensible of the evil of it, then sin grows exceedingly: So saith the Scripture, Being past feeling they give up themselves with greediness to all lasciviousness, and wantonness. What is the reason men and women give up their souls to sin, to lasciviousness and wantonness with greediness? Because they be past feeling. Oh the hardness of the heart in Sin; the stone in the heart, is worse than the stone in the bladder.
this ads as great dishonor unto God as the former Sin did. When a man or a woman commits Sin, they dishonor God in that; but being not sensible of it after committed, is a greater dishonor to God than the commission of it was: and the longer they continue unsensible of their sin, the more desperate their Sin against God grows: for if thou hast not anie sence of Sin, but goest on, in a little time thou maiest come to be past feeling, as the Scripture hath the Phrase, being past feeling: So manie men and women, first they begin not to be troubled for sin, and put it off; at length they come to be past feeling, and if thy heart be unsensible of the evil of it, then sin grows exceedingly: So saith the Scripture, Being past feeling they give up themselves with greediness to all lasciviousness, and wantonness. What is the reason men and women give up their souls to sin, to lasciviousness and wantonness with greediness? Because they be past feeling. Oh the hardness of the heart in Sin; the stone in the heart, is worse than the stone in the bladder.
Object. But you will say, If I labour to bring the weight of sin upon my soul, you have told us there is so much evil in sin, that if God should but bring, and set it upon my heart, it would sink my heart, and bring me to despair; we had need labour to put off the weight and