jg6. Aug de c'coZri- na chrifi.lib 4, .2ur.d minirr,ù eft minimum e;î, fed in mini. mo;4'd ele n eft magnum eft. Nam freut ratio rotunditatis ea- dem en innum- mulo exigue, qtt,e e3, in mag- no difco, ita ubi parva ju({ege- r¡rntur non mi- nsìtur ju(titiæ m,zgnitudo;tnde Apoßolus. acri- ter adeo inert- pas in re parva. s Car.B. prop. cur , cllarLta'em, que in rebus quam libet parvulis znagnafunt. The deceit fulnefe of mani heart. things are more than tricks, more than matters of (-port , or jef} : for the fe thirty comes the wrath of God ztpon the children ofdifobedience.What now? are thole little fins, which bring on us the great wrath off() infinite a Majefty ? and h it now but a trick tc Eoe to Hell? whither the weight even of there little finnes, as it were (mall rand?, will fink the Ship of our fouls, as well as our greater and groffer finne's. as it were the heavier burthens of the Ship. Small leaks in Ships, and (-mall breaches in wals, being negieeced, leek both Ships and Cities. And fuch Tradefinen, as in their accounts regard not (mail fummes, will quickly prove Bank rupts. Difobe- dience, though in never fo finall matrers,asin eating of an Apple , gathering a few flicks on the Sab- bath, looking into , and touching of the Arke , are yet in Gods account,no (mall matters. For how fe- verely hath he punifhed all there' than which yet what can wee imagine fighter ? But it is not the fmalneffe of the thing , that leffens either our obe- dience or dilobedience.There is the fame reafon of roundneffe in a (mall ball, which is in a greater one : and fo of obedience, or dilobedience, in fmaller or greater matters. A little thing is little ; but faithful - refTe, and fo all() unfaithfulneffe in a little, is a great matter : Forir is Gods Commandement that ties to obedience in leffer things, as well as in greater; and that is defpiïed, as well in the breach of the leffer, a, of the greater. Let us not then think that any fin is little ; Gnce the very leafl are committed againfl to great a God , and bring upon us fo great a danger: More by far,in Tome refpeìs , than doe thofe which wee
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