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A77976	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.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6063; Thomason E819_1; ESTC R207405	254,421	485

of the Law when it was first given That was only to set forth thus much to us That if the Law that God gave be broken that then God will be very dreadful to those that break it therefore he gives it at first in such a dreadful manner It may be many bold presumptuous sinners think it nothing to break the Law of the infinite eternal God but in that God gives the Law in such a dreadful manner as you may read in the 19. of Exodus how dreadfully God gave the Law God doth thereby declare to all the world how dreadful sinners are to expect him to be if they do break the Law But especially consider that dreadful Curse annexed to the Law Cursed is every one that abides not in every thing that is written in the Law to do that which the Law of God pronounces to be done a curse to every one that doth any thing at any time that shall break it That there should be such a dreadful Curse annexed this manifests the sore displeasure of God against sin Fourthly A fourth Manifestation of the sore displeasure of God against sin all this but to shew you further how Sin is a greater evil than Affliction the Manifestation I say of Gods displeasure against sin is seen in that we find in Gods word God hath so severely pun●sh'd some sins that do appear to us to be very smal little sins and yet God hath been exceedingly severe against those sins which appear to us to be exceeding smal To instance in three 1 In 1 Sam. 6. 19. there you have this example that the men of Beth-sh●●esh when the Ark came to them they did but look into the Ark out of curiositie for ought we know for no other end but meerly out of curiositie Now because the Ark was a holy thing and none but the Priests of God were to meddle with it God did presently at an instant slay fiftie thousand and three score and ten men of them Upon this the text saith these men beholding this severitie of God for this offence they all said Oh! who shall stand before the holy God! If God be so holy that he cannot bear so smal a sin as this did appear to men that but for looking into the Ark so many thousands shall be slain presently who can stand before the holy Lord Many of you have slight thoughts of the Lord and his Holiness and think you may be bold and presumptuous you venture upon greater offences than this was but these men upon the venturing upon this one thing above fiftie thousand are slain presently This is the displeasure of God against sin though very smal to our thoughts 2 Again A second example you have in Uzzah that did but touch the Ark out of a good intention as being ready to fall yet that not being according to the Law God struck him with death presently it cost him his life he was struck with sudden death We are terrified when we see one fall down suddenly now upon that offence though he had a good meaning and good intention yet God brake in upon him with his wrath and struck him dead presently Consider this you that think you have good meanings and good intentions yet not doing according to the Law the least breach of the Law though we have a good meaning doth provoke the wrath of God and God when he pleaseth lets out this his wrath 3 A third example you have in that poor man that we reade of who did but gather sticks upon the Lords day and by the Command of God from Heaven this man must be stoned to death You would think these things little matters Alas poor man he might have need of them How many of you venture upon other manner of things upon the Lords Day profaning of it and yet God speaks from Heaven and gives command to have this man stoned to death Now Brethren though it be true that God doth not alwaies come upon men for such little sins it may be to make known his Patience and long-suffering Perhaps the Lord doth let others go on for a long time in greater sins but yet God by a few such examples doth declare to all the world what the evil of the least sin is and how his displeasure is out against the least sin If he do forbear that is to be attributed to his patience and long-suffering but not to the littleness of the sin or the littleness of the evil that is in that sin This is a Fourth Fifthly A fifth thing wherein God manifests his displeasure against sin is in those dreadful and hidious Judgments that the Lord executes abroad in the world that we have the stories of in the Scripture and all Ages As that God should come and drown a whol world except eight persons all the whol world swept away and drowned And so that God should command fire and Brimstone to come down from Heaven and burn and consume whol Cities Sodom and Gomorrah and the Cities adjoyning yea and all the men women and children but only Lot and those few with him And so the fire to come down upon those Captains and their Fifties 2 Kings 1. And the Earth swallowing up Corah Dathan and Abiram There is no Age but hath some one or other dreadful example of His Judgments against Sin The wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all unrighteousness Now Brethren though some people have scaped and these manifestations of Gods Judgments are not so general and ordinary yet when they are but now and then God manifests what his displeasure is against Sin and what might be to all that Sin against him Sixthly A sixt manifestation of Gods displeasure against Sin is in those eternal torments and miseries in Hell that the Scripture speaks of the worm that never dies and the fire that never goes out when you hear Ministers speak of fire that never is quenched for poor people to lie burning in fire thousands of thousands of years in eternal flames scalding under the wrath of God you stand agast at the dreadfulness of these expressions Certainly these are only to reveal the displeasure of God against sin because there is no finite time can be sufficient to manifest to the full the displeasure of God against sin therfore those that perish must perish eternally CHAP. XXIII A Seventh discovery of Gods displeasure against sin opened from the sufferings of Christ First See the several expressions of Scripture 1 He was sorrowful to death 2 He began to be amazed 3 He began to be in an Agony Secondly See the effects of Christs being in an Agony 1 He fell grovelling on the ground 2 He swet drops of blood 3 He cries to God if it be possible to let this cup pass from me Thirdly There is eight Considerations of Christs sufferings SEventhly And that is greater than all that hath been said Put all the former six together His dealings with the Angels and with

of Gods working towards him 'T is thus with man There is no wise man that doth any great work manifests any great skill or layes out great cost but will do it for such an end as that end if ever it be attained shall be worth all his cost and skill and pains For a wise man to bestow much cost skill and pains upon a mean thing is absurd and ridiculous And no wise man but if he bestow much cost and pains and manifest much skill but he will be sure it shall be for that which if he attain to that he aims at it shall be worth all If a man be at a great deal of Charge in a Voyage he aims at such an end as may be worth his Charge So when God above all things layes out his wisdom power and mercy goodness faithfulness and sets at work all his Counsels to be laid out upon such a business as to get man to attain to his last end then certainly mans end and happiness must be worth it all And it must needs be a glorious thing God intends for the Children of men to make them happy withal when the great Counsels of God and wayes of Gods wisdom and power be so about this business of bringing man to happiness Now if there be such a glorious happiness for mankind then that which is most opposite to this great happiness must be very evil Now sin directly opposeth mans happiness the end man was made for and thus you see the evil of sin When God comes to awaken mans Conscience and inlighten mans Soul to see how sin crosseth their happiness more than any affliction they will chuse rather to be under the greatest affliction than the least sin Object I but it may be you will say it doth not s● cross mans happiness but that he may come to be happie for all sin Answ I Answer Of its own nature it directly crosseth mans happiness quite undoes man and if God by his Power fetch it about another way this is no thank to sin but to God CHAP. XXVIII Fifthly Sin is more opposite to mans good than Affliction because t is a defilement of the Soul 1 It defiles all a man medleth with 2 Sin is the matter the worm shall gnaw upon to all eternity FIfthly The evil of Sin against a mans good appeareth in this In that it is the defilement and corruption of the Soul a rottenness in the Soul Affliction is not the filth and corruption of the Soul the Soul may be as clear from filth and corruption notwithstanding Affliction as it was before man sinned Sin it is the rottenness of the Soul and therefore such a kind of defilement As 1 It defiles all things a man medles withal and al his actions it makes a man vile and defiles every thing that comes from him To the unclean all things are unclean and impure Tit. 1. 15. It defiles the Creature and every thing he hath to do withal and every thing he medles withal 2 And especially it appeareth in this That it is no other than the matter for the worm to breed in that shall gnaw upon the Soul of the wicked to all eternity You reade in Scripture That the damned shall be punished with fire that shall never go out and the worm that shal never dye What is that worm that shall never dye The worm of Conscience that shall gnaw upon their Spirits to all eternity Now what breeds this worm and supplies it with matter No other but the corruption of sin in the soul For as with worms as the Holy Ghost makes use of that Meatopher that breed in the corruption and filth in a mans body there are some worms that breed in the body which are deadly But out of what do those worms breed Out of the filth and corruption of the Body and the corruption of the body supplies matter for the worm to gnaw upon And so in Trees and Timber there breeds worms upon what do they breed but upon the corruption of the Timber when it begins to rot So then worms breed out of corruption and live upon Corruption so that worm of Conscience that shall lye gnawing upon the souls of those that perish to al eternity is nothing else but that which breeds from the filth of their hearts while they live here the worm breeds Therefore you that live a long time in sin old sinners gray headed sinners though you do not feel the worm gnaw for the present yet ever since you were born the worm was breeding and it will be a great and a dreadful worm hereafter and know you supply abundance of Corruption for to feed that worm that will gnaw another day You feel it not now but the longer you be before you feel it the dreadfuller will it be then All those that have corrupt hearts and have this worm breed if God would make the worm gnaw now it would be wel for them for there be wayes to kill it here to kill the worm of Conscience If it gnaw there is a Soveraign Medicine the bloud of Christ And certainly there is no Medicine in the world to kill this worm but the bloud of Christ and those that God doth intend to kill this worm in and those that shall not have it gnaw to all eternity God lets it gnaw now the Ministery of the Word makes it gnaw and pain them and they feel such pain that wheresoever they go or whatsoever they do yet the worm lies gnawing upon their hearts they cannot sleep or eate their meat Alas what should I eat and have my worm gnaw there And they can never be at rest till God apply the bloud of Christ and then they void the worm as it were How will you rejoyce when your Children if the worms be great and put them to pain if the Physitian give them that which makes them void them how do you rejoyce to see the worm that would have been the death of your Child It might have grown bigger and bigger if it had not been taken away So I dare say there is never a Soul here before the Lord but hath or had a worm in their breasts I say There was a time you had this worm in your breasts that without it were cured would lie gnawing to all eternity it is that which breeds of the filth and corruption of your hearts Suppose a man had a little dirt on his face this endangers not the life of the body but when there is corruption within and defilement of the Body within that breeds diseases and will breed worms it may be it wil breed the wolf that lies gnawing at their breasts many women have had it in their breasts that lies gnawing upon their flesh but know your sins breed another manner of worm or wolf that will gnaw worse than ever that did And this is the evil of sin it is not only the defilement of the soul but such a defilement that