Chap. 6 sin most opposite to God the chief Good
mark what I say, and see whether I do not make out these things I undertake.
CHAP. VI.
Sin most Opposite to God the chief Good Opened in four Heads: 1. sin most opposite to God's Nature 2. sin opposite in its working against God. 3. sin wrong God more than any thing else. 4. sin strikes at God's Being.
First, It is most opposite to God who is the chief Good. The meanest Capacity may easily understand, That which is most opposite to the chief good, that must needs be the chief evil: I suppose the weakest in this Congregation will understand this way of Reasoning, that evil that is most opposite to the chief good, that must needs be the chief evil; but sin is that which is most opposite to God, who is the chief good, and therefore must needs be the chief evil. That then is that I must make good.
Quest. How does it appear that sin is most opposite to the chief good?
Answ. Brethren, When I have made out this, I shall shew sin to be very sinful, and the greatest venom of sin lies in this one thing I am now opening. Should I tell you never so much of the evil of sin, in the danger that comes by it, Hell that follows it: should I write a Book about Hell and Damnation for sin, it has not so much to humble the Soul in a saving manner, as this I now treat about.
Perhaps I might scare you in preaching of Hell and damnation, but discovering this I now speak of, the opposition sin has unto God; it has more in it to humble the Soul in a saving manner, and to cause