Demon. 1. Sin is the greatest Evil. There is not, nor can there be another Evil, so evil as Sin is. The Scripture calls it by the Name of Evil. Psal. 34 13. Keep thy tongue from evil, that is from Sin. And Vers. 14. Depart from evil, and do good. The good there spoken of is moral good▪ And the Evil is moral Evil, i e. Sin, which by way of Eminency is said to be evil. Yea, it is not only an Evil, but the Evil. Joh• •• 15. I pray not that thou wouldst take them out of the world, but that thou would it keep them from the evil: viz. from Sin, which is the evil the evils. It is Sin which has made all other things evil. It has made the best and most excellent Creatures in the world to become the worst. It has made the Fallen Angels to […] Evil Angels: Whereas in their First ⟨image ?⟩[…] ⟨image ?⟩[…] ⟨image ?⟩Estate they were Glorious Creatures Sons of God, and Morning Stars. How great must that Evil be, which can turn an Angel into a Devil? Sin has done this, and that as to millions of them. There are more Devils then there are men in in the World; since there is no man, but there are Devils to Tempt him unto sin; and we read in the Gospel of thousands of Devils possessing one miserable man. It is Sin that has made so many Devils. Man was a glorious Creature before he was a Sinner. The most glorious Creature that ever was made, next to the Angels. Psal. 8.5. thou hast made him a little lower than the Angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour; but Sin has made him the worst Creature on the Earth. It has made him to be worse, nay, to be more irrational than the beasts that perish. How often are Sinners charged with acting more unreasonably than the beasts do. Isa. 1.3. The Ox knows his Owner, and the Ass his Masters Crib, but Israel doth not know, my people doth not understand. Alas! they were worse then brutes, who will pay some acknowledgement to their Fee•er. A Beast wont meddle with that which he knows by an instinct of natu•• ⟨p. 7⟩is poysonful and hurtful to him; yet thus irrational are men. Although' they are told, and cannot but know that Sin is deadly poison, and that if they commit such Sins, their Souls must die for it; for all that they will venture. Sin has made men to be thus unreasonable. Nor is there any Creature on earth an enemy to God, but only man, and Sin has made him so. It is Sin that has made this World to be an Evil World. Gal. 1.4. This present evil world.
Demon. 1. Sin is the greatest Evil. There is not, nor can there be another Evil, so evil as Sin is. The Scripture calls it by the Name of Evil. Psal. 34 13. Keep thy tongue from evil, that is from Sin. And Vers. 14. Depart from evil, and do good. The good there spoken of is moral good▪ And the Evil is moral Evil, i e. Sin, which by way of Eminency is said to be evil. Yea, it is not only an Evil, but the Evil. Joh• •• 15. I pray not that thou wouldst take them out of the world, but that thou would it keep them from the evil: viz. from Sin, which is the evil the evils. It is Sin which has made all other things evil. It has made the best and most excellent Creatures in the world to become the worst. It has made the Fallen Angels to 〈…〉 Evil Angels: Whereas in their First ⟨image ?⟩〈…〉 ⟨image ?⟩〈…〉 ⟨image ?⟩Estate they were Glorious Creatures Sons of God, and Morning Stars. How great must that Evil be, which can turn an Angel into a Devil? Sin has done this, and that as to millions of them. There are more Devils then there are men in in the World; since there is no man, but there are Devils to Tempt him unto sin; and we read in the Gospel of thousands of Devils possessing one miserable man. It is Sin that has made so many Devils. Man was a glorious Creature before he was a Sinner. The most glorious Creature that ever was made, next to the Angels. Psal. 8.5. thou hast made him a little lower than the Angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour; but Sin has made him the worst Creature on the Earth. It has made him to be worse, nay, to be more irrational than the beasts that perish. How often are Sinners charged with acting more unreasonably than the beasts do. Isa. 1.3. The Ox knows his Owner, and the Ass his Masters Crib, but Israel doth not know, my people doth not understand. Alas! they were worse then bruits, who will pay some acknowledgment to their Fee•er. A Beast wont meddle with that which he knows by an instinct of natu
