Preached at Lincolns Inne

              preached preachedat Preachedat esat at Lincol lincolns ns inne second sermon on PSAL 38.4 384 384 FOR MINE iniquities ARE GONE OVER MY HEADASA hedd HEAD AS A HEAVY BURDEN THEY dre dre ARE TOO HEAVY FOR ME AS THE IE philosopher thephilosopher says if a man could see vertue he would love AIAI1ittsoifamancouldseesinhewouldhateitbutastheeye sees every thing but it selje selfe so does sinne too it sees beauty and honour and riches but it sees not it selfe not the sin full coveting and compassing of all these to make though not sin yet the sinner sinner to see himself himselfe seifee for the explication and application of these words we brought you these two lights first the multiplicity of sin in that elegancy of the holy ghost super supergresso supergressce gresso sunt mine iniquities are gone over my head and the weight and oppression of sin in that Grav grao gravatte gravatce Gravat atee ce nimis As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me in the first how numerous how manifold they are in the other how grievous how insupportable first how many hands then how fast hold sinne lays upon me the first of these two was our exercise the last day when we proposed and proceeded in these words in which we presented to you the dangerous multiplicity of sinne in those pieces which constituted that part but because as men how many soever make but a multitude or a throng and not an army if they be unarmed so sin how manifold and multiform so ever might seem a passable thing if it might be easily shaked shacked off we come now to imprint in you a sense of the weight and oppression thereof As a heavy burthen they are too heavy for mee the par- ticular degrees whereof we laid down the last day in our generall division of the whole text and shall now pursue them according to our order proposed then