The greatest evil in all the world – Thomas Brooks

Sin is the greatest evil in all the world.
Sin is the only thing
which God abhors,
which has brought Jesus Christ to the cross,
which damns souls,
which shuts heaven, and
which has laid the foundations of hell.

Oh, sin is the pricking thorn in my eye, the deadly arrow in my side, the two-edged sword that has wounded my conscience, and slain my comforts, and separated between God and my soul. Oh, sin is that which has . . .
hindered my prayers,
embittered my mercies,
put a sting into all my crosses.
Therefore I cannot but disapprove of it, and disallow of it, and condemn it to death, yes, to hell, from whence it came.