The truly blessed man

PROPOSITION II.

That all kinds and degrees of Sin are to come within this Confession. The three words used in our Text, Iniquity, Transgression, and Sin comprehend all; not only bold and daring Sins, and such as are more scandalous in the eyes of men, but whatsoever hath the least obliquity in it: if it be but a warping from the Rule of obedience, it is to be acknowledged. As there is no sin so great, but a true confession of it may profit us, so there is none so little, but we are in danger if we confess it not; and indeed there is the same reason for confessing one or another. For,

That all kinds and degrees of Sin are to come within this Confession. The three words used in our Text, Iniquity, Transgression, and Sin comprehend all; not only bold and daring Sins, and such as are more scandalous in the eyes of men, but whatsoever hath the least obliqui•y in it: if it be but a warping from the Rule of obedience, it is to be acknowledged. As there is no sin so great, but a true confession of it may profit us, so there is none so little, but we are in danger if we confess it not; and indeed there is the same reason for confessing one or another. For,

1. Every Sin is a Transgression of the Law of God. For nothing else can give it that denomination; and truly this puts a black character upon it. It cannot be a light matter, which the great God put so much weight upon, as to insert it in that Law by which he Governs men to an everlasting state of Happiness or misery; and yet this respect hath every sin.