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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 61
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.
As God said to Adam, when God called, and he hid himself, when he comes out, he saith, I was afraid because I was naked: saith God, Who told you that you were naked? So when poor souls cry to heaven for Christ, God may say to the poor soul, Why? what is the matter? who hath told thee any thing? As Christ said to the Pharisees, Who hath forewarned you to fly from the wrath to come? So God will say, Why? what is the matter? who told you this? I hope some poor soul will have experience of this, when you go to pray for Christ, and you shall Pray after another manner than formerly, when your Prayers shall be, even cries to heaven; when God shall say, Why? what is the matter? why cry you more than before? I hope some poor souls, can give a good account of it, and say, I see my self lost and undone without Christ; better be a Dog, or a Toad, or any thing, than a man, if I have not Christ; because they are not capable of sin, and my heart is full of sin; and I have heard the evil of it, and therefore Oh give me Christ or I am undone: Oh! such a Soul will be exceeding acceptable unto God. And therefore, to such a soul, I propound in the name of the Lord, the Doctrine of Life, and Salvation, and Peace; be it known therefore to you, God the Father, looking upon the sinful Children of men, and seeing them all in a perishing condition ⟨p. 485⟩by Sin, out of infinite bowels of tender compassion, he hath provided a glorious way of Mediation, of Propitiation for Sin; and to that end he hath sent his only beloved Son, out of his bosom, that hath taken mans Nature upon him, united in a personal union, to that end that he might be a fit Mediator to stand between a provoked God and sinful souls; and this Christ hath born the full vials of the wrath of his Father, the curse of the Law due to sin; satisfied infinite divine Justice, made a full Atonement between God and sinful man. Only upon these terms now, he doth tender and offer to every poor wearied distressed soul, all that his Son hath purchased by his blood, all his merits, that they might be an atonement for thy sin, a Propitiation for thy soul, to discharge all thy sin, that thou mightest come through him to stand acquitted before the father for ever more.
As God said to Adam, when God called, and he hid himself, when he comes out, he saith, I was afraid because I was naked: saith God, Who told you that you were naked? So when poor souls cry to heaven for Christ, God may say to the poor soul, Why? what is the matter? who hath told thee any thing? As Christ said to the Pharisees, Who hath forwarned you to fly from the wrath to come? So God will say, Why? what is the matter? who told you this? I hope some poor soul will have experience of this, when you go to pray for Christ, and you shall Pray after another manner than formerlie, when your Prayers shall be, even cries to heaven; when God shall say, Why? what is the matter? why cry you more than before? I hope some poor souls, can give a good account of it, and say, I see my self lost and undone without Christ; better be a Dog, or a Toad, or anie thing, than a man, if I have not Christ; because they are not capable of sin, and my heart is full of sin; and I have heard the evil of it, and therefore Oh give me Christ or I am undone: Oh! such a Soul will be exceeding acceptable unto God. And therefore, to such a soul, I propound in the name of the Lord, the Doctrine of Life, and Salvation, and Peace; be it known therefore to you, God the Father, looking upon the sinful Children of men, and seeing them all in a perishing condition