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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

was his Tyrany If you should have a dead man or woman tied about your bodies may be the face of a dead man is hidious to you but if they should be tied about you so that when you lie in bed and when you rise when you sit at meat it should be alwaies with you and you should indure the stink and putrefaction what a sore evil would this be now if in the presence of a dead Carkass there is so much evil than in the presence of the devil there is much more Now sin any one sin tied close to your hearts that you carry about with you wheresoever you go know there is in that a greater evil upon you than if a dead Carkass should be tied to you yea than if the devil should haunt you wheresoever you go because the presence of the devil is not so much as turning of the souls of men and women into the nature of the devil and making the Souls of men and women so like to him CHAP. XLVII The Fourth Corollarie It s worse to be given up to any way of Sin than to be given up to the Devil Quest How the Delivering up to Satan can be for the saving the Soul A Fourth Corollarie hence is this That for any man or woman to be left to one Sin it is worse than to be given up to the Devil I say it is a greater evil a greater judgement for any man or woman to be left to any way of Sin than to be given up to Satan is thy soul given up to the power of any one Sin I dare here as I stand in the presence of God To speak the truths of God I dare avow it you are in a worse condition than if you should be given up to the devil I make that good thus In Scripture 1 Cor 5. 5. we have an example of one that was given up to the Devil and that in a right way there is an Incestuous person that committed that horrible wickedness not named among the Gentiles that had his fathers wife and committed Incest with her the Apostle commands him to be delivered to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that his spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus He was delivered to Satan but for the destruction of the flesh but to the end that he might have his Spirit saved in the day of the Lord Jesus So that the delivering up to Satan was a means appointed by God to save his soul But to deliver up any one to the power of Sin is no means to save his soul that is a means to damn the soul and not to save it So then you see the reason grounded cleerly upon Scripture That it is worse to be delivered up unto any sin than to be delivered to the Devil for he that was delivered to Satan it was for the saving of the soul but he that is delivered to Sin it is for the damning of his soul This requires a little opening Quest You will say How can the delivering up to Santan be for the saving of the soul Answ It will be needful for cleering of this to tell you what this delivering up to Satan was and the truth is this delivering up to Satan or excommunication from the Church this was a most dreadful thing when done in a right way it was done when the Church was gathered together by the power of Jesus Christ As certainly where there are a company of Saints that at least outwardly so appear a Church that in a solemn manner is gathered together through the power of Jesus Christ having their Elder going before them the Officer of the Church when they in a solemn manner in the power of Christ shall cast out any one deservedly from Church Communion this is a delivering a man or woman to Satan this is another manner of business than ordinarily we were wont to have by the Ordinary or Commis●ary and Dean in the Prelates Courts certainly they were but wooden Daggers in comparison of this dreadful Sword to cut off from the Communion of the Church it was when the Church was Assembled not the Commissary and Officers but when the Church was gathered together to cut such a one from the Church of Christ for some vile act not for not paying of their Fees or the like these things only scared people but if this Censure of Excommunication were in a right way executed it were the most dreadful thing in the world it is that which hath awed and terrified the most proud and stout sinners the very sight of anothers Excommunicating it hath terrified the conscience of those that have been by It is a delivering them to Satan and putting them from under the protection of God giving them up to the devil to take power over them except they come in and repent and this is a way to save the soul because if there be any way in the world to cause men to see their sin and repent and be humbled and come in this is it and when no other way would do it this many times hath done it And therefore those people that live in such a condition that want this Ordinance of Excommunication in the right way want an especial means to keep off sin both to keep them from sin before they are fallen and of delivering of them from sin when they have fallen into it But to be given over to the power of sin is a greater evil than to be delivered to Satan CHAP. XLVIII The Fifth Corollary It is worse to be given up to one sin than to be actually possessed by the Devil FIfthly Shall I say further and this will make it pla●●ly appear what abundance of 〈◊〉 ●ere ●s i● Sin more than in Affliction for though ●…oken abundance of it yet all this 〈…〉 draw the Point higher and higher and ●…ve the nail deeper and deeper that this Truth of God might settle upon your spirits and therefore a Fifth is this which follows from this reference sin hath to the Devil That it is worse to be given up to any one Sin than to be actually possessed by the Devil than for the Devil to come and actually possess us as those poor Creatures were in the Gospel and this is worse than to be given up to Satan There is a spiritual possession of Satan as in Judas and that is a spiritual possession of their hearts to rule them but there is a temporal possession spoken of in the Gospel and that is of their bodies that the Devil possest them and caused them to rage and foam at the mouth and rend and tear and the men we reade of in the Gospel that lived among the graves and dead people and cut themselves with knives and stones this was a grievous thing to see men thus possest Many men have extraordinary fits of the Convulsion and the like and men think they be possessed we ordinarily mistake and it is but a meer fit of

and when that comes against the Creature it must needs make them miserable it s another manner of matter than afflictions when all in God comes out against the soul and there is not any one sin but endangers this CHAP. XXXIV XI Sin is more opposite to mans good than affliction for that sin make all the Creatures of God at enmity with a sinner XI FUrther in the next place The evil that sin hath beyond all the evil of Affliction is this That sin it doth make all the Creatures of God to be at an enmity with a sinner I say sin puts a sinner in this condition that all the Creatures of God are Enemies unto the sinner they be all as the Host of God that come out against a sinner ready armed with Gods wrath ready bent to execute the wrath of God against a sinner the Creatures of God are called Gods Host not only because they be armed with Gods wrath but because there is in them a propencity to destroy those sinners that sin against the God of their Being Every Creature is ready and doth as it were cry to God Oh Lord when wilt thou give me commission to take away such a wretch Lord such a one is a filthy wretched Blasphemer a Sabbath breaker a drunkard and thou livest all this while and hast been at peace and yet they are still crying Lord shall I go and take him away and send him to his own place If thou couldest hear it all the Creatures in the world cry thus and they be all desirous to send thee to thy own place and take thee away My thinks when I see a sinner I hear all the Creatures cry as he in the 〈◊〉 Sam. 16. 9. Abishai the son of Zerviah Abishai was one of Davids Soldiers when Shimei cursed David Shall I go and cut off this dead Dogs neck So he saith concerning Shimei Let me go over I pray thee and take off his head why should this dead Dog curse my Lord So when thou art blaspheming God the Creatures look upon thee with disdain and they rise against thee and all the Creatures say Oh this dead Dog this wretched Creature how long shall he live to blaspheme God shall I cut off his head shall I go and send him down to his own place It would terrifie thy heart if thou shouldest hear every Creature crying to God to be thy Executioner from him And certainly when God gives commission and God falls upon thee every Creature wil fal upon thee As you read in the 2 Sam. 18. when Joab fell upon Absalom presently the ten men fell upon him and slue him too as soon as Joab gave the stroke So as soon as God gives the stroke against the sinner certainly all other Creatures be ready to fall upon the sinner also so that sin brings a man to such a condition that all Creatures are at enmity with him whereas when once the soul is reconciled to God and sin pardoned all Creatures be at Peace with you you are then in League with all the Creatures We should account it an evil condition to be in such a place where all the men in the Nation are our Enemies and stand ready to murder us Certainly all the sinners in the world are in the middest of the Creatures of God that stand ready armed with GODS wrath against them Hence it is That when once God inlightens I beseech you observe it the Conscience of a sinner he feareth every thing The wicked flie when none pursueth them It is very observable of Cain after he had committed that sin of slaying his Brother then saith Cain Every one that meets me will slay me Who was there then in the world No body but his Father and Mother and yet every one that meets him will slay him he was afraid of every thing and every one because he had sinned against the Lord. So every inlightened Conscience that knows what sin means when he comes to have Conscience awakened they be afraid of every thing If there be thundrings lightenings storms tempests it sees the wrath of God in this Storm and Tempest Thunder and Lightening any stirs abroad in the world be but as Messengers of Gods wrath against me saith the awakened Conscience This is the misery of a sinner and then how much is the evil of Sin greater than Affliction CHAP. XXXV XII Sin is a greater Evil to man than Affliction because it puts a man under the Curse of God XII NAy further It puts the Creature under the Curse of God it doth separate the Creature for evil Psal 4. 3. It is said God separates the righteous man for himself So sin separates the Creature for evil and makes him Anathema accursed For God in Deut. 27 26. saith Cursed is every one that abides not in every thing that is written in the Law to do it he is accursed in all that he hath and doth The Curse of God is against him And here observe sin doth not only deserve a Curse that the Creature should be accursed but of its own nature it is a Curse and makes the Creature accursed in its own nature As thus you may see the evil of sin by the excellency of Grace Thus Grace doth not only bring excellency upon the Creature and brings a blessing but of it self it separates the Creature for a blessing For what is holiness but grace they be usually exprest for one and the same now what is Holiness but the Consecration of a thing for God so that when Holiness comes into the heart that is nothing else but that gracious Principle whereby the soul of a man or woman before common to Lust and sin is now come to be separated from al these things and to be consecrated and given up to God himself that 's Holiness Now sin must needs be contrary unto holiness As holiness is a separation of the Creature from other things and a consecration of it unto God so sin is a separation of the Creature from God and all good and devoting of it up unto wrath and misery and a curse and al evil whatsoever in its own nature it is not in the desert only Many men think sin in its desert deserves a Curse but they understand not how sin in its own nature separates the heart from God and so gives it up to al evil and all misery as grace doth to all good This is the evil of sin and therefore another manner of evil than there is in Affliction CHAP. XXXVI XIII Sin is the seed of Eternal evil therefore more hurtful to man than Affliction An Use therof Then see that those men are deceived that think to provide well for themselves by Sin Use 2. The Ministry of the Word is for our good as well as Gods glory XIII FUrther Sin it is a principal evil so I call it because it is a principal of Eternal evil to the Creature I beseech you observe what I mean I

goeth along with the pain and therefore it is that it might be a Note of perpetual shame and reproach So in Afflictions there is the pain of the Affliction and then there is the shame that is upon men through the affliction Let men be branded and if it be not for their sin if it be for Righteousness then their brands are honorable let them be stigmatized never so much let their Ears be cut off and branded with an S. or any other brand in the cheeks or foreheads if it be for Righteousness this is their honor and glory As the Apostle speaks in a Triumphing way I bear about with me the Marks of the Lord Jesus and he glories in it So for any man to be branded for Christ he bears the marks of Jesus Christ though there be pain there is no shame So in any Affliction God sends if there be no sin there may be pain but no shame but when God comes upon men for sin and by the very affliction God doth as it were point out the sin of man Oh! then it is not only painful but abundance of shame and confusion goes along with it And therefore in that Text Jer. 24. 9. God saith He would cast them out for a reproach and a taunt and a by-word For a reproach as well as trouble The shame of Affliction comes from Sin This is the Fourth Thing Fifthly The Eternity of all Evil comes from Sin I remember I shewed before how Sin was a Principle of Eternal Evil but this is in another regard I speak not of Sin now as than that was as it is in its own nature Sin it self was a principal evil and brought an eternal evil But thus I say here Sin puts an Eternity upon that present evil thou dost suffer if the guilt be not taken away No Creatures but only the Reasonable Creatures Men and Angels be subject to any eternity of evil What ever evil is upon any other Creature it cannot have that denomination of eternity but the evils upon a sinner may have a denomination of eternity upon them For this observe this one Note though it be high as in Grace that is in it self I told you an eternal good and brought eternal good But further Grace is not only in it self a principle of eternal good and brings eternal good but Grace doth make that very good that now we have to have an eternity upon it It dot● not only procure that hereafter it shall have eternity but makes our present good to be eternal though it be conveyed in another way As now we have abundance of Comforts from Creatures and Gods Ordinances it is true we shall not have our Comforts conveied to us from Creatures and Ordinances but those that have Grace shal have the same comforts that now they have from the Creature and the Ordinances conveyed immediatly from God as from the fountain that which thou now hast from Cisterns and Conduits of conyeyance thou shalt come to injoy the same from God immediatly and really another way So that no man or woman in Affliction if gracious need to be troubled for any thing For this is a true maxim in Divinity A Christian may have many Crosses but no Losses A Christian never lost any thing How can that be A Christian receives Good in husband and wife and Children and estate and they have losses in these as well as others No they be crost for the present but never any Christian had any loss This we may as a certain truth assent to never any godly man or woman that had Sin pardoned never had after that time any loss Grace me thinks should be very precious in your thoughts if this be true if I can make this good if I should come and tel you Marriners or Merchant adventurers in dangerous Seas wel I will come and shew you what Course you shall take and you shall never have loss more you would think this good News if it were not a fancy and deceit if you found it so you would account your time well spent if you could but find this to be true though you heard nothing but this Certainly I can tell you a way where you shall never have loss in the World the way of godliness Get but Sin once pardoned in Christ and you shall never have any loss Suppose I had a Pipe that were laid into a fountain of water that brought water to me well afterward this pipe is stopped and there comes no more water through this pipe but though this pipe be stoped yet if I come to injoy the very fountain I have no loss of Water for I have it from the fountain though the pipe be stopped yet I have the same water I had before So it is with a Christian that have any loss in the Creature For thus we are to know all Creatures be but as so many Pipes of conveyance of comfort and good from God the fountain of all good in the Creature and he is pleased with one kind of Pipe to convey comfort from one Creature and from another another way some have greater and some smaller Pipes as God shall minister in his Wisdom and Providence to his Servants But now one that is godly though the poorest man or woman in the world hath an interest in God himself the fountain of all good And therefore if any Pipe be cut off and stopped as perhaps such a time thou didst loose a thousand pound perhaps three or four thousand pound there was three or four Pipes cut off but stil thou hast a God and an interest in him and there all is made up And there is this art in godliness and the skill that still thou maiest come and injoy that immediately from God and suck that from the fountain that thou didest from the Pipes So that a Christian may loose much of his estate or comfort in friends so as he shall never receive it from them any more but he goeth to God and injoyes it in God So that that present good which he had here he makes it all up in God Thus Grace makes that good and comfort you have here now an eternal good only the conveyance is in another way more immediately from God and therefore the sweeter and the fuller So Sin puts an eternity in every evil observe sin doth not only deserve that thou shouldest have eternal evil befal thee hereafter but whatsoever evil thou hast now sorrows distresses anguish or troubles upon thee Sin wil make that sorrow and anguish and distress to be Eternal though not perhaps conveyed that way by that channel yet thou shalt have that to be immediately let out through Gods warth and Justice All that evil that ever thou didest bear here from any Creature here perhaps thou hast a grievous disease Oh! it doth it may be extreamly afflict and torment thee perhaps thou diest the strength of that evil is gone but that torment upon thee by the disease was

thee lies been a means to undo an immortal soul yea and to cause them to sin against the infinite God so that thou art guiltie of everie sin thou hast been a means to draw others to and thou art worse than those that have sinned for thy act in drawing them to it is a dreadful evil and then that which they have done is thine too Hast not thou sins of thine own enough to answer for before the Lord but thou must have the sins of another also Dost thou know what thou hast done in enticing others to sin either to uncleanness drunkenness to companie keeping and breach of the Sabbath and other sins Perhaps thou hast brought them to pilfering and purloining and many other particulars and other waies that might he named for indeed if we should enlarge our selves in this Point it might well require a whol Treatise but we must contract our thoughts It may be there are some in this Congregation that have been a means to draw others to sin and they be now in Hell at this instant for that sin thou wert a cause of What a sad thing is this for any man or woman to have this to lay to heart I know I have drawn such and such to sin I have been a means at least to further sin in them well they be dead and gone and they manifested no repentance before they died and therfore for ought I know yea it is much to be feared that they be now in Hell and now a tormenting for that verie sin I was the cause of and if the Lord gives me wages according to my works I must thither to them What shall they be in Hell for the sins I brought them to and shall I escape is it anie way likelie and probable but that I must follow when as they be there for the sins I brought them to what shall the Accessarie be condemned and executed and shal not the Principal I am the Principal and the other is but the Accessarie Certainly there had need be a mightie work of humiliation for thou art in exceeding danger that art the cause of bringing anie other to sin for it is that must needs lie exceeding heavie upon the soul of anie man and woman if God never give you a sight of this great evil certainlie you perish but suppose God do give you the sight of so great an evil and you begin to be humbled Oh this very meditation wil cause your humiliation to be full of bitterness and will cause it to be very hard for you to lay hold upon mercie and pardon when you shall think thus Ah were it for my own sins only I were to answer for I might have greater hope but there be others sins I drew them into and they be condemned perhaps and in Hel and how shall I escape condemnation my self I do not say that there is an impossibilitie of pardon for the Grace of God is infinite and were it not infinite it were impossible for such a soul to perish and thou that art the cause of it come to be saved I say there is a possibilitie but it is as if it were through the fire if ever thou escape do but thou consider if it should be that thou shouldest die in impenitencie also as the other did and that thou didest go to Hell when you two should meet at the day of Judgment and he should see thee the cause that drew him to sin Oh what a grief it would be to thee how would he curse thee and the time that ever he saw thy face that ever he lived in that Familie where thou livedst It may be some Parents have been a means to draw by counsel and advice the Child to sin Oh the Child when he sees his Parent at the Day of Judgment how will he curse the time that ever he came from such Loyns and such a womans Womb Oh that rather he had been the off-spring of a Dragon and the generation of a Viper than from the Loyns of such a man and woman you encouraged me to such and such waies of sin to opposition and hatred and speaking evil against the People of God the Servants of God that were strict in their way and now you and I must perish eternally sure in Hell they will be readie to cast fire-brands in one anothers faces that have been the cause of sin in one another in this world and so Husband and Wife that lie in one anothers bosoms if they be the cause of any sin in one another it may cause woful terror to them and appear worse than if a Serpent had lay in their bosom for those that draw others to sin do worse mischief than any Serpent or Viper in the world can do You had need look to it betimes I shall wind it up with this one Note Whosoever hath been the cause to draw others to commit any Sin know this That the least that can be required if God do give thee a sight of thy sin and to be humbled for it if thou doest go away out of the presence of God as having an Arrow darted into thy bosom for this then I say go away with this one Note You be bound to make some restitution in a spiritual way as much as you can For this you know I shewed before in a mans temporal Estate when you have wronged you must make restitution if you will have mercie you must make up the wrong as you are able much more here when you have wronged any in their souls a Soul wrong calls for Spiritual Restitution as well as Body wrong or Estate wrong calls for a Bodilie or Estate Restitution Quest What do you mean will you say by this Spiritual Restitution Answ This I mean That if those be alive that thou hast drawn to sin thou art bound to this part of Restitution that is To go to them and to undo what possibly thou canst what thou hast done and now to tell them of the evil of that sin and to do them all the good for their Souls that possibly thou canst Now to shew to them how God hath convinced thee and what the work of God hath been upon thee and how heavie and dreadful sin hath been made to thee and to beseech them for the Lords sake to look to themselves and to consider of their estates and to repent of that their sin that you were the cause to bring them to And so if there be anie means in the world wherbie thou canst do good unto their Souls thou art bound to do it yea to them their children their friends as you are bound to make restitution unto the next friends and heirs of those that you have wronged in their goods if the partie wronged be dead So if those should be dead thou hast drawn to sin suppose when thou wast yong thou drewest such a man to drunkenness adulterie or the like and they be dead and gone thou art bound to