Sin . . .
is the plague, the leprosy, the death of intelligent
creatures;
infects and poisons all their faculties;
plunges them into the lowest depths of guilt and
wretchedness;
pollutes them with a stain . . .
which all the waters of the ocean cannot wash away,
which all the fires of Hell cannot remove;
from which nothing can cleanse them,
but the blood of Christ.
---Edward Payson