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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 66
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nay, some may be have thought themselves so miserable by affliction that you have made out and measured Gods intentions of good to you hereafter by that; you have your Hell here for the present, and therefore think you shall have Heaven hereafter. This is the great Argument many men and women have, because they have a Hell here, therefore they shall have Heaven hereafter. But be it known unto thee, if together with thine affliction thou still remainest sinful and wicked, thou mayest have a Hell here; and a Hell Eternal hereafter also. Mark what is said of Sodom, unclean and filthy Sodom who lived in all manner of filthiness like brute Beasts; it is said of them in the Epistle of Jude, ver. 7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Cities, about them in like manner giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of Eternal fire. Mark, Sodom suffered the vengeance of Eternal fire, and yet Sodom suffered the vengeance of present fire; there came fire in this world, and brimstone, and consumed them for uncleanness who burned in Lust; and yet for all the fire and brimstone upon them in this world, the Holy Ghost saith, that they suffered the vengeance of Eternal fire; they were sent down from fire in this world, to Eternal fire in that world to come So certainly, many people be sent from misery in this world to Eternal misery; and all the miseries on them in this world, be but the beginnings of misery, but as the per-boiling of flesh to the roasting hereafter; they have a little ⟨p. 510⟩heat of misery here, but 'tis but as the per-boiling to the roasting in Hell hereafter. Know therefore, all those that are miserable here, and sinful, and wicked; let them know, the Justice of God is an infinite stream, and there is never a whit the less to run because of all that hath run before, but his hand is stretched out still; as in Isa. 5. 25. after God had spoken of dreadful wrath against his people, saith he, Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand against them, and smitten them, and the hills did tremble, and their Carcasses were torn in the midst of the street; for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. Mark, Gods wrath is so terrible, that hills and mountains tremble at it: