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had to know God and his will, the greater is your sin, if you be ignorant, impenitent, and disobedient.

The number of sins, according as they are multiplied, do increase the guilt and punishment, Isa. lix. 12, 13. Ezek. xvi. 51.

The more bonds are broken in sinning, as, committing it against the law of God, of nature, and nations, Jude 10. Jer. xxxiv. 18, against conscience, promises, and vows; the greater the sin and punishment.

All these things known and considered, now judge yourself, 1 Cor. xi. 31; pass a condemnatory sentence against yourself: whence will, through the grace of God, follow affliction of soul. Now you will see that you are base and vile, and that you may justly fear God's judgments; now you will see cause to be grieved, ashamed, yea, even confounded in yourself, and to conceive an holy indignation against yourself.

You will now think thus: Ah! that I should be so foolish, so brutish, so mad, to commit this, to commit these sins (think of particulars) to break so holy a law, to offend, grieve, and provoke so good and so great a majesty! So ill to requite him, Deut. xxxii. 6; so little to fear him, vile wretch that I am! That I should commit not only sins of common frailty, but gross sins, many and oft against knowledge, conscience, &c. (but still mind particulars.) Jesus Christ my Saviour shed his precious blood for me, to redeem me from my vain conversation, and do I yet again and again transgress, O miserable man that I am! What am I in myself, at best, but a lump of sin and pollution, not worthy to be loved, but worthy to be destroyed; one that may justly look to have my heart hardened, or my conscience terrified, and that, if God be not infinitely merciful, he should pour upon me all his plagues. Wherefore remembering my doings that they are not good, but abominably evil, I loath myself for mine abominations, Ezek. xxxvi. 31, and abhor myself, and repent, as in sackcloth and ashes, Job xlii. 6.

Now set upon the work of reformation and of reconciliation; general or particular, as you find