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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

come to know what trouble of conscience for sin is and what the power and authority of the word is and how then doth the soul prise the word no man or woman ever comes to prise the word tell they have felt the pow●er of the word troubling their conscience then they come to prise the word You have a famous place for this Job 33. 16. Then he opens the ears of man and seals their instruction That is God coming upon men in times of affliction opens their ears and seals their instructions that is makes the word come with power and authority As a thing sealed comes with more authority than a blank or a writing not sealed Sealed that is when the word comes with power That I may with-draw man from his purpose and hide pride from man That is Having Sealed instruction ●he humbles the heart First he causeth the word to come with power and then he humbles the heart He keepeth back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing he is chastened also with paine upon his bed and the multitude of his bones with strong pains and so forth And in vers 23. If there be a messenger with him an interpreter one among a thousand to shew unto man his uprightness Then he is gracious unto him and saith Deliver him from going down unto the pit That is when God comes to ●eal Instruction and to humble the heart ●and to cause pains to be upon the man and so make them sensible of their sin then let a messenger an Interpreter be found one of a thousand such a one doth account a Messenger and Interpreter that shal be able to declare the way of Righteousness and shew him a ransom how to be delivered from sin he accounts him a man of a thousand Oh he is a man of a thousand wheras if he should come thus before ●he were no body and the Word nothing a meer silly business but now he is a man of a thousand Oh such a Messenger let such a one come and welcome And therefore you shall have many men slight a consciencious Minister in their health and prise those that preach slightly but in their sickness when conscience is open they will not send to a slight vain Minister that preach and never touch conscience but they will have those that have preached most to Conscience they shall be most prised by them upon their sick and death beds when Conscience is awake such a one will be one of a thousand then This is the Sixt. Seventhly and lastly and indeed one of the Principallest and I desire all those that have had slight thoughts of trouble of conscience for sin to attend to it it is this Those slight thoughts of thine about trouble of conscience for sin they are a high degree of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost If I make this plain that they be guilty of a high degree of Blasphemie against the Holy Ghost this should ●…we the hearts of men and women and make them take heed● what they do in giving way to these vain thoughts about trouble of Conscience yea such a degree I will not say it reacheth the highest degree of blasphemie yet I shall make it out to you that they come neer it It is a high degree of blasphemie against the Holy Ghost it appeareth thus Because trouble of Conscience for sin it is an especial work of the Spirit of God upon the Soul of a man or woman wheresoever it is such a work of the Spirit of God as from thence the Spirit of God the Holy Ghost hath the denomination so as he is called the Spirit of Bondage no God hath no denomination from any light and slight work there must be some especial and great work of God in which God doth much glorie that he hath a denomination from it now Rom. 8. 15. the Spirit of God hath this denomination it is called the Spirit of Bondage For you have not received the Spirit of Bondage again to fear but you have received the Spirit of Adoption crying Abba Father Ye have not received the Spirit of Bondage again to fear as if the Holy Ghost should say there was a time when you had the Spirit of Bondage and what was this Spirit of Bondage It was no other but the Spirit of God discovering unto and setting upon the heart of a man or woman that bondage that they be in under the Law and corrupttion and Satan This is the Spirit of Bondage when Gods Spirit shall come to enlighten a man and convince the Conscience and so lay this upon the conscience of any man or woman thou art by reason of sin a bond-slave to the Devil under bondage of all the Curses of the Law by reason of sin yea a bond-slave to thy Lusts this the Spirit discovering and making the Soul sensible of this bondage is that which causeth this denomination to the Spirit of God to be called the Spirit of Bondage Now for thee to attribute that to foolish melancholly conceits that is one of the especial works of the HOLY GHOST in the SOUL and is the Spirit of Bondage Is not this Blasphemie against God This is Gods work and it is a work of Gods glory for all the works of God be his glory and that which the Spirit of God glories in as that work proper to him thou saiest it is but folly and melancholly conceits and the like is not this blasphemie and reproach to the Spirit God Certainly it is no other but reproach and blasphemy against the Holy Ghost in attributing the trouble of conscience to these conceits 2 Nay further It is a great degree towards the unpardonable sin if ye do it out of malice and knowledg by it you come to the unpardonable sin Take for that this one place of Scripture Mark 3. compare the 22. verse with the 24. 30. Verse 22. when Christ cast out Devils the Text saith of the Scribs and Pharisees that came from Jerusalem that they said he hath Belzebub and by the Prince of the Devils casts he out Devils they attributed the work of Christs casting out Devils to the power of the Devil he casts out Devils by the Devil But now it was by the Finger of God well Christ calls them to him and said How can Satan cast out Satan There he convinceth them Satan could not cast out Satan and told them it was by the Spirit of God they were cast out Mark how he goeth on in the 28. verse Verily I say unto you all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men and Blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness but is in danger of Eternal Damnation Because they said he hath an unclean Spirit Christ tells them other blasphemies shall be forgiven but the blasphemies against the Spirit of God shall never be forgiven Why doth Christ speak of this how comes it in Mark the

upon and thou wouldest be glad to tamper withal couldest thou be sure it should not be known and thou shouldest not be brought to shame for it and have the displeasure of such a friend thou couldest find in thy heart to be medling with it Couldest thou Oh! know thou hast a base heart that hast no other grounds to keep thee from Sin withal Whereas know if thou be a Christian indeed and that God hath aright made known sin to thee thou wouldest rise higher Oh I am to deal with God an infinite glorious first-Being and if it be sin only that strikes at this infinite glorious eternal first-Being of all things Then I will avoid sin whatsoever become of me yea whatsoever I suffer I will not have to do with it this is a raised Spirit this heart is like to stand out against sin Alas those poor low grounds upon which many resist sin though they may stand out against sin a little against a weak temptation yet if there come a strong temptation will quickly break through the hedg Al those poor low grounds and Arguments temptation will quickly break through them But when the heart is raised to oppose sin upon such high grounds as this is Certainly this notes a true raised heart by God and such an one is like to stand out against temptations in another manner than others do And truly when the heart is possessed with this thought it cannot perhaps parley and reason with the temptation as others can yea this one principle of sinning against God will so fill the heart of a man or woman that though it doth not stand reasoning and answering every thing yet it will even burst out either in tears and fal a lamenting that it should be pestered with temptation or burst out into Resolution against it I remember an excellent Story reported in the Book of Martyrs you may find it in King Edwards life that yong Prince that died at some fifteen years of age in his time there were two Bishops otherwise good and proved Martyrs and yet you may see what the best of them were in those times they came to perswade the King to yeild to a Tolleration of the Mass and it was but for his Sister neither not for the whole Kingdom but meerly for his own Sister to yeild to a Tolleration of it in her Chappel he stood out against it though yong thought it a dishonor to God well they plead and Reason with him telling him it was best in State Policy and other grounds they use to perswade a Tolleration of Popery thus you see what kind of men these in these waies are and if you do not know yet you are like to know more in this kind about these wayes but this I bring it for when the poor King though yong having his heart possessed with this principle That he should not do any thing against God he could not answer the Bishops that came so subtilly but instead of Answering their Reasons he burst out with tears and then they were convinced and confessed the King had more divinity in his little finger than they had in all their bodies So I apply it to you yong ones perhaps temptations to that which is a sin against God comes subtilly strengthned with this Argument and the other Argument but if you have your hearts possessed with this truth it is a Sin against God Oh when you cannot Answer the particulars of temptation burst out and weep and cry either for your condition or that you should be pestered with that you know is a sin against God and say I had rather lose my life suffer any thing in the world than sin against God If your hearts be filled with this Principle when temptation to sin comes you will be ready to burst out and weep before the Lord and this will be as strong an Answer to temptation as can be and Satan will quickly avoid if you can when you find your selves pestered with temptation and it follows and dogs and pursues you if you can being filled with this Principle That sin is against God if you can get alone and fall a weeping and lamenting that your hearts are even ready to break from the consideration of this Principle this will be the strongest way and means to resist temptation that can be CHAP. XX. A Sixt Corollarie If sin be thus sinful it should teach us not only to be troubled for our own sins but the sins of others SIxtly A Sixt Corollarie If Sin be so much against God and wrong God so Hence it should teach all those that know God and have any love to God to be troubled not only for their own sins but for the sins of others for sin wheresoever they see it Oh I see the blessed God wronged fought against stroke at and this should go neer the heart of all those that have any love to God at all As with David in the 119. Psalm 136. Rivers of water run down mine eyes because they keep not thy Laws 't is true every man and woman should especially look to themselves and their hearts should especially be troubled for their own sins but mark the Saints that know how sin is against God their hearts cannot but be wonderfully troubled when they see that God so dear and precious to them thus wronged Rivers of water run down mine eyes because they keep not thy Law Oh when I put it to thee in the Name of the Lord in all thy life didst thou shed one tear for the sins of those among whom you live for the sins of thy Familie And vers 158. I beheld the transgressors and was grieved Oh I was grieved and pained at my heart yea thus it will be with thee if thou lovest God When thou in the Familie may be thou art a Child when thou beholdest thy Father or Mother Carnal and spending all their lives without the knowledg of God and in waies of sinning against God thou shouldest get alone and mourn and lament for it Oh it is that if any thing in the world that would break a Parents heart if there be a yong Child a Youth or a Maid that God begins to reveal himself unto them and the Parent speaks may be against them and Gods people and swear or profane Gods Day or speak against his Ordinances though it may be it do not become thee to speak to them but if thou canst before them let tears drop from thine eyes or get alone and fall down and lament before God if thou canst by lamenting reprove their sins that they shall see thee lament for them this may break their hearts it may be notwithstanding if it do not break their hearts it hath this in it Certainly if any thing in the world will stir us and break our own hearts this should be it To see God dishonored in the world as he is though our hearts be never so much hardened otherwise There is a Storie of a