grace, do good to others, or glorifie God; there may be such deceit in the heart: as thus,1 They may think such a sin will help such a Grace, and help against such a temptation, and such a sin may help my humility; and it is ordi∣nary this temptation (when in trouble of Con∣science) make away thy self, and then thou wilt sin no more; for so long as I live I shall sin a∣gainst God, & therfore make away thy self and so cease to sin: But know, if thou lay violent hands upon thy self, and think thou shalt have this good by it to sin no more; yet thy sin is wicked and abominable, though thou put this good end upon it, though it were possible to in crease Grace never so much by the least sinful thought, we must not commit this least sinful thought for never so good an end, as to help forward such a Grace.2 A Second end may be to do good to others, and I say if it were possible, if a man might be a means to save the whole world if he would commit one sin, if he could save the whole world from eternal Torments by the Commissi∣on of one sin, you should suffer the whole world to perish rather than commit one sin, there is so much evil in sin. It is the expressi∣on of Augustine in a Tractate of his concerning an officious Lye, a friend of his wrote to him to Answer this Question about telling of a Lye, Whether he might not tell a Lye, to do good to another man? Many think, What though I do tell a Lye so I do another good; indeed if I may do hurt 0