No sin startles less—or damns surer!',

Back to John Flavel's "The Method of Grace"

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Unbelief is man's great sin, and condemnation is 
his great misery. How dreadful a sin is the sin of 
unbelief, which brings men under the condemnation 
of the great God. No sin startles less—or damns 
surer! Unbelief is a sin which does not affright the 
conscience as some other sins do, but it kills the soul 
more certainly than any of those sins. Other sins could 
not damn us were it not for unbelief, which fixes the 
guilt of them all upon us. Unbelief is the sin of sins; 
and when the Spirit comes to convince men of sin, 
He begins with this as the capital sin.