[ 1780] Wherein the poysonfull Nature of Sinne consisteth.
IT is credibly reported,* 1.1 That in some parts of Italy there are Spiders of so poyso••ous a Nature, as will kill him that treads upon them, and break a glasse if they do but creep over it; This shews clearly, that the force of this Poyson is not in measure by the quantity, but in the Nature by the quality thereof: And even so the force of Sin consists not in the greatnesse of the subj••ct or object of it,* 1.2 but in the poysonful Nature of it, For that it is the breach of the Law, viola∣tion of the Iustice, and a provocation of the wrath of God, and is a present poyson and damnation to Mens Souls; therefore as the least poyson, as poyson, being deadly to the body, is detested; so the least sin, as sin, being mortal to the Soul, is to be abhorred.