A77976:709
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.
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.
K Know Few men know God or sin 80, 81 Sinners know not the excellency of the rational creature 306 They know not Gods holiness 307 Four things must be known 327 Knowledge Knowledge of sin makes Christ precious 56 Kingdom —Of Christ, and of Satan, what 361, 362, 363
K Know Few men know God or sin 80, 81 Sinners know not the excellency of the rational creature 306 They know not Gods holiness 307 Four things must be known 327 Knowledg Knowledg of sin makes Christ precious 56 Kingdom —Of Christ, and of Satan, what 361, 362, 363
L Law —The glass to see sin 124 Light Common light, and saving light 150 Little Call no sin little 448, 449, 450 Lye An Officious lye 19 Lye not to save the world 20 Life Sin strikes at the life of God in man, 151, 152, 256 What the life of God in man is 253 The life of man excellent 256 Losses A Christian may have many Crosses, but no Losses 340 Liberty Prosperity gives liberty to sin 437
M Mercy Sin wrongs Gods Mercy 68 Mediator —Must be God & Man 82 ⟨image 240⟩Ministry Ministry of the Word is for our good 295 —And Gods glory ibid —It makes sin bitter ib. —Makes stomachs rise against it 296 —A great Ordinance 323 Magistracy —A great Ordinance 324 Mariners —Englands strength 324, 325, 326 Mean Mean-men, who 252 Maliciousness Maliciousness in sin 312 Means Means to crush sin 323 Melancholy —Distinguished from trouble of Conscience 387, 388, 389, 390, 391 392, 393, 394, 395 —Six Differences of it 414, &c. Misery Men freed from affliction may be in misery 426 Great misery when sin and affliction meet 504
M Mercy Sin wrongs Gods Mercy 68 Mediator —Must be God & Man 82 ⟨image 240⟩