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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
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This is the sum of the Gospel, and this I present and Preach it, and offer it to you, and this not only to the least sinner, but to the greatest sinner in the world, this I present, as in the name of God, that is the message we have in the name of God to deliver unto you; and now whatsoever your sins have been heretofore, God only requires that your souls should now stand admiring at the infinite riches of his Grace in his Son, and that your souls should be taken off from the Creature, and Sin, and live upon Christ, surrender your souls to him, and cast your souls on that infinite rich grace of God in him, and upon that instant, every one of your sins, though never so ⟨p. 486⟩great and heinous, yet I pronounce in the Name of the Lord, every one of them is pardoned, and all done away, as if they had never been committed, This is the Sum of the Gospel unto those that come to see their Sins, and be sensible of their need of Christ by their Sin.
This is the sum of the Gospel, and this I present and Preach it, and offer it to you, and this not onlie to the least sinner, but to the greatest sinner in the world, this I present, as in the name of God, that is the message we have in the name of God to deliver unto you; and now whatsoever your sins have been heretofore, God onlie requires that your souls should now stand admiring at the infinite riches of his Grace in his Son, and that your souls should be taken off from the Creature, and Sin, and live upon Christ, surrender your souls to him, and cast your souls on that infinite rich grace of God in him, and upon that instant, every one of your sins, though never so ⟨p. 486⟩great and hainous, yet I pronounce in the Name of the Lord, everie one of them is pardoned, and all done away, as if they had never been committed, This is the Sum of the Gospel unto those that come to see their Sins, and be sensible of their need of Christ by their Sin.
Object. But you will say, This makes all you have done, but a little matter; if Sin may be done away thus, what need all this discovery of the evil of Sin? it is not so great an evil, if it may be thus washed away?