Spiritual Peace and Comfort. zi to have a Covetous, Woridly,Ambitious heart, ever damnably fuck, that yet havewit to carry it fairly without ; yea and fowl truly Religious to them felves and others. 3. Becaufe thefe fins are the moft common : For though they reign only in hypo- crites and other unfanctified ones, yet theydwell too much in all men on earth. Ifyou now ask me what thefe fins are : I anfwer, They are, as denominated from the Point or Term fromwhich men turn, all comprifed in this one VJn willingnefs ofGod,or the tr.rning ofthe heart from god; or not loving God. But as we denominate them from the Termor Object to which they turn, they are all comprifed in this one, Carnal felf- love, or turni4g to, and preferring osr carnal felfbefore God, and as it inclineth to action, all or moft of it is com- prehended in this one word Fle/hpleafing.But be- caufe there are a Trinity offins in this Unity,we muff confider them diftinctly. Three great Objects there are about which this fin ofFlefh-pleafng is exercifed: 1. Credit orHonour. 2. Profit or Riches. 3. Senfual Picafure, more ffrictly fo called, confiffing in the more immediate Pleating of the fenfes ; Whereas the two firft do more remotely pleáfe them by lay, ing in Provifion to that end : Otherwife all three are in the general but Fiefh-ple4ing. The three great fins therefore that do moff directly fight againft God himfelf in his Soveraignty, are 1. Pride or Ambition. 2. Worldlinefs or love ofRiches. 3. Sen- fuality, Voluptuoufnefs, or inordinate love ofPtea- fures. There are in the Vnder, anding indeed other fins as diretcly again God as thefe,and more radical (as i. rytheifm, denying a God. Polutheifm, de- nying
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