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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

fitted to their hearts and dispositions that he finds his own sin come to be discovered and the man is smitten as he in 1 Cor. 14. 25. the ignorant man that comes into the Church and hears there the Saints prophesie He is convinced and falls down and saith verily God is among them of a truth God is in them it is a remarkable Text what ever he thought before it may be he heard strange Stories of the Church of Christ of prophane Meetings That Gods People when they met together they blew out the Candles and committed Uncleanness and Wickedness As there be notorious lies reported abroad of such Sects in the world for certainly there is no such Sect in the world but such reports are raised meerly to make the Meettings of Gods Saints odious in the esteem of others As the Jesuite said Do you but Calnmniate strongly somewhat will stick though nothing be true Well what ever thoughts they had of the Assemblies of the people of God for it is like the Heathens had strange thoughts but when he came in and heard what was done he is Convinced and Judged and the secrets of his heart came to be discovered the text saith The man falls down and Worships God and reports God is among them So many people hear great Relations of such Men and such Preachers and Sermons and they go to hear what they can say and what they do and may be go with an intention to scorn as I have known some come and sit close to a Pilar and with an intention to jeer and scorn but before they have been gone God hath darted some truth into their Conscience and they have been struck with the word and gone away with terrors in their Conscience this cannot be melancholly As Paul when God converted him God comes and meets him with light from heaven and strikes him from his horse and he stands trembling and cries out Lord What wilt thou have me to do There is a great deal of difference between this and melancholly A Third Difference is this Melancholly is exceeding Confused they are exceeding Confused in their thoughts and the trouble of their Spirit And many times they have troubles and sinkings but they can give no account of it at all yea their troubles be beyond their ground the grounds that they be troubled about are very confused that they understand them not themselves but troubles of Conscience are a great deal more distinct and there the soul seeth ground for the trouble beyond the trouble As in Melancholly the trouble is beyond the ground of trouble so in affliction of Conscience the ground is beyond all trouble I am troubled indeed but I see cause to be troubled more and this is a great part of many mens trouble That they can be troubled no more A Fourth Difference is this The more melancholly there is in any man or woman the less able are they to bear any outward affliction that befals them but the more trouble of Conscience the more able shall they be to bear afflictions that befals them Those who feel the trouble of Sin heavie do account all other afflictions light but melancholly people do feel all Afflictions heavie they cannot bear the least cross their hearts are ready to sink upon any thing and the more melancholly increaseth the more weak are their spirits and the less able to bear any cross But now trouble of Conscience the more sin and the heavier the butthen of sin lies upon the Soul the more slight thoughts hath the soul of outward crosses Alas it may be he hears of some that have some grievous diseases in their bodies Oh saith he that is troubled in conscience Oh if it were no worse with me than so it were but a flea bite but it is another manner of matter if God would change my trouble I could easily bear that As Francis Spira hath this expression Oh! saith he were I but released and set free as before from trouble of spirit my thinks I could scorn all the threatnings of cruel Tyrants and with undaunted resolution bear all torments So that the height of this trouble makes the other less It was a good Speech of a reverend Divine of our times when he heard any impatient under afflictions he used to say thus Surely the Reason why Affliction is heavie upon you is because Sin is light Those that be impatient under Afflictions it is a●sign Sin is light because Afflictions are heavie troubles of Conscience would make all Afflictions light Melancholly wil not Fifthly A principal Difference above all that hath been named is this Melancholly doth mightily dull the spirit of any man or woman wheresoever it prevails it makes them heavie and dull and unapt But now trouble of Conscience for Sin it puts a mighty quickness in men it puts an activity another manner of activity and stirring in the spirit than ever was before You shall have many men and women sit dully under a Minister many years under the word and never act but when God comes to stir and awaken Conscience for Sin their Spirits be active and stirring then in another manner than they were before Whereas poor people overwhelm'd with melancholly they sit moping and heavie and dull and lumpish and no activity of spirit at all but trouble of Conscience for sin is as fire in his bones As Jeremiah said He would speak no more in the Name of the Lord but the word of God was as fire in his bones and made him active and stirring so trouble in Conscience makes them active and stirring now they can pray they could not pray before now they be active and working As Acts 9. When God troubled Paul the text saith Behold Paul Prayes Go saith the Lord to Annanias to Saul Behold he prayes as if Paul never prayed in all his life before Certainly you that cannot pray that never prayed but read a prayer or prayers your mothers taught you you cannot Pray but if ever God troubles your Consciences for sin then you will Pray as if you were in heaven Oh mighty Prayers then Oh for Christ Oh Pardon of Sin and Peace then there is another manner of acting and stirring of his spirit in Prayer than ever was before But melancholliness will not do it but makes a man heavie and dull in the very act of Prayer There is a notable example of the actings of Spirit in troubles that come from Sin whereas the other makes them dull 't is that in the Book of Ezra Chap. 9. vers 3. and 5. Verse 3. And when I heard this thing I rent my garment and my mantle and pluckt off the hair of my head and of my beard and sate down astonied This you will say made him dull mark what follows Verse 5. And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness and having rent my garment and my mantle I fell upon my knees and I spread forth my hands unto the Lord my

Christ said to the Pharisees Who hath forwarned you to fly from the wrath to come So God will say Why what is the matter who told you this I hope some poor soul will have experience of this when you go to pray for Christ and you shall Pray after another manner than formerlie when your Prayers shall be even cries to heaven when God shall say Why what is the matter why cry you more than before I hope some poor souls can give a good account of it and say I see my self lost and undone without Christ better be a Dog or a Toad or anie thing than a man if I have not Christ because they are not capable of sin and my heart is full of sin and I have heard the evil of it and therefore Oh give me Christ or I am undone Oh! such a Soul will be exceeding acceptable unto God And therefore to such a soul I propound in the name of the Lord the Doctrine of Life and Salvation and Peace be it known therefore to you God the Father looking upon the sinful Children of men and seeing them all in a perishing condition by Sin out of infinite bowels of tender compassion he hath provided a glorious way of Mediation of Propisiation for Sin and to that end he hath sent his onlie beloved Son out of his bosom that hath taken mans Nature upon him united in a personal union to that end that he might be a fit Mediator to stand between a provoked God and sinful souls and this Christ hath born the full vials of the wrath of his Father the curse of the Law due to sin satisfied infinite divine Justice made a full Attonement between God and sinful man Onlie upon these terms now he doth tender and offer to everie poor wearied distressed soul al that his Son hath purchased by his blood all his merits that they might be an attonement for thy sin a Propisiation for thy soul to discharge all thy sin that thou mightest come through him to stand acquited before the father for ever more This is the sum of the Gospel and this I present and Preach it and offer it to you and this not onlie to the least sinner but to the greatest sinner in the world this I present as in the name of God that is the message we have in the name of God to deliver unto you and now whatsoever your sins have been heretofore God onlie requires that your souls should now stand admiring at the infinite riches of his Grace in his Son and that your souls should be taken off from the Creature and Sin and live upon Christ surrender your souls to him and cast your souls on that infinite rich grace of God in him and upon that instant every one of your sins though never so great and hainous yet I pronounce in the Name of the Lord everie one of them is pardoned and all done away as if they had never been committed This is the Sum of the Gospel unto those that come to see their Sins and be sensible of their need of Christ by their Sin Object But you will say This makes all you have done but a little matter if Sin may be done away thus what need all this discovery of the evil of Sin it is not so great an evil if it may be thus wash't away Answ Ah poor carnal heart that speaks thus Is this a light or little matter True it is in a few words in the end of a Sermon but be it known to you There is more in these words I have spake in this last half quarter of an hour there is more of the glorie of God in them than in Heaven and Earth beside not because they come from me but because I have spoken that which is the Sum of the Gospel and in truth in one Sentence of the Gospel there is more of the glorie of God than in all Heaven and Earth besides You must be convinced of this and know it is so and if ever you come to be partakers of the good of the Gospel you will see it to be so Oh Brethren in that I have said there is the glorious Mysterie of Godliness great is the Mysterie of Godliness God manifest in the flesh the great Counsel of God working from all Eternitie is in this in the Sum of the Gospel The greatest work that ever God did was in sending his Son and in the offer of his Son to Sinners that their sins might be pardoned Therefore think it not a smal thing and hear when I call upon Sinners to come and cast their souls upon Christ It is one of the gloriousest works that ever was done for a sinful soul to come and close with Christ the Mediator and if once you come in your hearts will be so full of the glorie of God that presentlie all the glorie of the Creature will be darkned in your eyes and you will be so filled with the glorie of God that you wil come to see the filthiness of Sin this way as much as in anie way All the Sermons I have delivered concerning the evil of sin will not set out the filthiness of Sin to you as that glorie of God that your hearts will be filled withal as soon as you come to close with God in this Mysterie of the Gospel Perhaps it is not so apparant to everie soul but wait a while and there will more of the evil of sin be discovered in this than in anie way Vse XI And then the Use that I shall make of it is this If there be such evil in sin then bless bless God for Christ Blessed is that man and woman whose sin is pardoned Psalm 32. Oh blessed is he whose sin is forgiven Certainly it is a blessed thing that sin should be forgiven this requires a whol Sermon by it self I shall but name it now because I shal it may be hereafter speak of this particularly of the great Blessedness of the Pardon of Sin onlie take notice of it any that hath a comfortable assurance of their sin being pardoned go away rejoycing Son Daughter rejoyce your sins are pardoned there is enough in that word to bring comfort and joy to your souls CHAP. LXII Use 12. If there be so much evil in sin then it is of great concernment to be Religious betimes and there by prevent much sin Use XII AGain One Use more If there be such evil in Sin Then it is of great use to begin to be Godlie and Religious betimes for yong ones to come to be godlie betimes why Because they may come to prevent so much evil and so much Sin Oh happie those that begin to be godlie when yong you prevent a thousand sins that others commit by their not knowing sin betimes True if there were no other use of Godliness than meerlie to bring you to Heaven then you might stay till your sick and death beds and then be Religious it were enough but besides bringing

one person to another Christ comes in and he puts on the Sentence of Condemnation for thee that hast it passed against thee so that the Sentence is not properly nullified but transferred to Christ Eccles 8. 11. saith the text there Because Sentence against an evil Work is not speedily executed therefore the heart of the sons of men are fully set in them to do evil Mark the Sentence against an evil work is not speedilie executed so that it appears there is a Sentence against every evil work The Sentence is out Brethren thou goest and art drunk or to the commission of such a sin I say presentlie the Sentence of death is clapt upon thee the Sentence is out against all sinners You see men go on and live in prosperitie a great while in the world but they be under the Sentence all the while sin is not removed by the blood of Christ and all the comforts I beseech you observe that that any man or woman have in the world that are in their natural condition and are not delivered from Condemnation by Christ they are all but just as meat and drink and some refreshments that are grantnd to a condemned Malefactor before Execution Suppose a Malefactor is condemned but now Execution is not till two or three daies after in that space of time he hath granted unto him libertie to have meat and drink and friends come to him and he may refresh himself in those two or three daies but he hath forfeited all his Estate and the tenure now upon which he holds any comfort it is not the same which he had before but meerly through the bountie of the Prince it is that he hath comforts So here wicked men have committed sin and the Sentence of death is out against them and they have forfeited all the comforts of their estates and of their lives only God in patience grants unto them some outward comforts here a few daies before Execution and upon this tenure do all wicked men hold their Estates I will not say that every wicked man is an Usurper of their Estates as some perhaps have held that they have no right at all before God some right he hath as you cannot say a Malefactor hath no right when he is condemned to meat and drink before Execution he hath right to what is given to him of Donation and Bountie but not that right which he had before So I say for wicked men that have Estates in this world they have a kind of right to that they have but how Just that right that a condemned man hath to his dinner or supper before Execution this is the right of wicked men to their Estates that is God of his bountie grants a little while before Execution they shall have a few comforts to them in this world And this is the evil of sin and the least sin there is not any one sin but the fruit of it is Condemnation And Brethren you must not mistake to think that wicked men are never condemned until they come before God in the day of Judgment they be condemned here mark that John 3. 18. He that beleeves not is condemned already now condemned not hereafter but a condemned man already this is a sad condition indeed If a man had the Sentence of death so past that the whol Parliament could not help him you would think that man in a sad condition Now let me speak it and God speaks it to the conscience of every sinner I say thou that standest before God in any one sin and not delivered through the blood of his Son Christ thou standest so under the Sentence of condemnation as all the Creatures in Heaven and Earth cannot help and deliver thee thou must have some help beyond the help of all the Creatures in Heaven and Earth to deliver thee When Paul would comfort the Saints against all troubles and afflictions they meet withal Rom. 8. he begins thus There is no condemnation to them in Christ Jesus as if he should say this is the comfort no Condemnation If I know I am delivered from the Sentence of Condemnation let what will fall out I am well enough but this be sure of there is Condemnation to those that are not in Christ I remember Luther had this Speech when he had got assurance of pardon of sin that he was freed and absolved by God he cries out Lord strike Lord now strike for I am absolved from my sins thou hast delivered me from sin now strike now let any affliction befal that possibly can let never so much trouble attend I am absolved from sin now Lord strike This is the Eighth Sin is more opposite against the good of man than Affliction for it brings them under the Sentence of Condemnation CHAP. XXXII Ninthly Sin is a greater Evil to man than Affliction because it breaks the Vnion between God and the Soul NInthly Sin is a greater evil than Affliction in this In that it is the very thing that breaks the Vnion between God and the Soul It is that doth it and no Affliction doth it Now Brethren this I confess might seem to be less than that of Hatred and might have come before it but now I bring it in here That it breaks the Union between God and the Soul Isa 59. 2. Your Sins have separated between you and your God! We are to know The Souls of men are capable of a very near and high Union between God and them the more spiritual any thing is the more power hath it to Unite and the more neer the Union As thus The beams of the Sun because they be very spiritual they can Unite a thousand of them into one Point as it were but grosser things cannot so Unite themselves together So Brethren God being a Spirit and our Souls being Spirits they come to be capable of a most neer Communion one with another And the Souls of men are neerer a glorious Union with God in this regard more neer than any Creature but the Angels Because the Object of mans Understanding is not any particular truth but Veritas truth in general truth it self in the whole latitude is the Object of mans Understanding So the Object of mans Will Is not this good or that good in particular but Bonitas good in general in the full latitude of it It is not so with other Creatures they have their Objects in some particular thing in such a limit and compass and they can work no further nor higher But it is otherwise with mans Soul God hath made man in such a kind that the Object of his Soul should be Truth and Goodness in the full latitude in the infinitness of it take it in the utmost extent that can be yet still it is the Object of the Soul of man Now hence it is that the Soul of man is of such a wonderful larg extent even capable of God himself of enjoyment of Union and Communion with God himself