JEREMIAH BURROUGHS THE EVIL OF EVILS PDF

This rare treatise has been out of print since Most people will do all they can to avoid affliction, but do very little to avoid sin. In 67 chapters, Burroughs. 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. Jeremiah Burroughs () – A Popular Independent Puritan Preacher and a Member of the Westminster Assembly. Taken from “The Evil of Evils”.

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In some things there may be burrouths about them; but no Divine that hath knowledg of anie thing of Scripture, but will confess this that I speak evll and if you know not this, certainlie you were never acquainted with the Scripture: Now a sinner doth what he can to darken the glory of God, doth in effect stand up and say, if I can help it, God shall have no glory in the world.

What, doest thou know God, man or woman? For God that hath wrought so wonderfully and gloriously in raising such a glorious Edifice and Frame, certainly it was, that he might have some glory from what he hath done.

The Evil of Evils, or the Exceeding Sinfulness of Sin

Bur This rare jeremiay has been out of print since Now this is the work I have to do, to make out this Conclusion to you, That any Affliction is to be chosen rather than any Sin; that there is more evil in any Sin, the least sin, than in the greatest Affliction. Josepth was a Servant, and yet this kept off that temptation from him, when he was a yong man, that is the honor of Joseph, a yong man and a Servant, when the temptation comes, Oh this breaks his heart, How jjeremiah I do this and sin against God?

Because sin is not good in any kind: As if you should say, notwithstanding there is so much said of the infinit goodness of God, and that infinite satisfaction in Him; for my part I find not enough in Him, I must ecils it elswhere.

When thou in the Familie, may be thou art a Child, when thou beholdest thy Father or Mother Carnal, and jeremixh all jefemiah lives without the knowledg of God, and in waies of sinning against God, thou shouldest get alone, and mourn and lament for it: He may take occasion to bring good out of sin committed: Because then God were not infinitely holy, and holiness is Gods Being; and if God be not infinitely holy, he is not God at all, but ceaseth to be presently.

Certainly Sin is a striking of God. This is the Third Particular, It strikes at God.

Certainly these are only to reveal the displeasure of God against sin, because there is no finite time can be sufficient to dvils to the full the displeasure of God against sin: Wherein is shewed, 1 There is more evil in the least sin, than there is in the greatest affliction.

Certainly if but one drop of sin should get into God, the infinite Being of God would instantly cease to be. I such a vile wretch, and yet out of Hell! Better be under the greatest Affliction then be under the guilt or power of any Sin: I will give you an example of each, the most remarkable in all the Book of God.

But when once the soul can come to say with David, Against thee, against thee only have I sinned; in my Evios I have gone against that God who is so infinitely above all praise and glorie: Despite the best efforts of his patron, Burroughs was suspended in and deprived in for refusing to obey the injunctions of Bishop Matthew Wren, especially regarding the reading of the Book of Sports, and the requirements to bow at the name of Jesus and to read prayers rather than speak them extemporaneously.

A Seventh discovery of Gods displeasure against sin, opened from the sufferings of Christ.

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Al those poor low grounds and Arguments, temptation will quickly break through them. This is the First general Head, nothing is so opposite to God as Sin: There is infinite Reason I should do and suffer all for God, for I have wronged God by sin, and thus we evios turn sin to grace as it were, and of Poyson make an Antidote against poyson, by taking advantage by sin to be more obedient unto God.

Wayne Vogelaar rated it it was amazing Mar 13, This is the Reason of it: Will you venture to commit sin for a groat or six pence, if there be so much opposition against God in it? How comes it to pass that there is a necessity of such a mysterie of godliness for saving of poor Souls?

Fourthly, Sin wrongs God exceedingly. Put all these six together, and yet I say all these six is not so much to manifest the displeasure of God against sin as this one that now I shall tell you of: That soul that apprehends and beleeves these particulars that have been opened unto you, cannot but justifie God when they hear the revelation, and the manifestation of the displeasure of God against sin.

That is wronged especiallie: Afflictions bring forth good: Rules and Helps to Christian Meekness Matthew 5: Secondly, Consider the Effects of Christs being in an Agony, and apprehending the wrath of his Father for sin.

But suppose now, one should come, and through ignorance, much more if knowinglie give it a blow and strike it al to pieces; what a mischievous thing were this? Oh how many have we now adaies, who think they walk cleerly in the midst of Gospel Light, magnifying and exalting free Grace, triumphing in their Christian liberty, looking upon others as kept in bondage, who come not up to their pitch and practice, and yet are no better than Solomons fools, who make a mock of sin, being conceitedly set at liberty, but really sin and Satans bond slaves: Thus you see Afflictions make not a man worse, but under them he may be as good as he was before; and prosperity makes not a man better, but he may be as vile in prosperity as he was before: Men be mightie tender of Power and Sovereigntie; sure if they be so, God may much more be tender of his, which is as the apple of his eye.