Burroughs - BT715 B8 1654

Exceeding Sinfitfnef of Sire.. 43 fo infn, there is the fetting of thywill againfi ' the ivill of the infinite eternal God : refifting theSoveraignty, and Majeffy, and Dominion of the infiniteGod. -Yea, thou doeft refift God in his Law, thou refifleth and oppofeth God in that righteousLaw of his, which he gave thee to obey. Queft. But how is this inevery Sin ? It may be in foregreat and notorious fins this may be, but is this fighting againfi God, hiving, and riling, andwat(ing contrary to him) (and foof the refs) is this in ever; fn-? Anfw. For that I Anfwer, Y `f hat everySin comes from the fame root, and look what ve- nom there is in any one fin, for the nature of it it is inevery fin,though not for its degree : 'Tis true, one finmay have a higher degree ofevil in itè ananother, but every tin is invenomed with the lame evil : That which is thevenom ofany dl9e fin, is thevenomof all all comes from the fame root. As in a Tree, there is more Sap in anArm of the Tree, than in a little Sprig; but theSprig bath the fame Sap for kind that the Armof the Tree hath, and it al comes from the fame root. So though there be morevenom in fame grofs, crying fins, than in foreothers ; yet there is no fin but bath the fame Sap, and the fame venom, for the kind, that every fin hath, thatthe wont fin bath. 2 Yea, Confider further, That God doth not account fin only according to mans intentions in finning ; what man intends, but what the nature- ofthe fin tends unto, not what I do aim at in my K 2 finning,

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