Y 12 Sellintere And Pleaftire, And hardly leave his cave, or liberty, or lite, if he were put to it, either to fin, or leave them. As he is a faithful fervant to God indeed, that will not difpleafe him in the frrialiefi matter; fo he is molt fully obedient to the flefh, that cannot deny it the haft thing that it defireth. Though I know that the fmalneis of the matter doth often fo relax the cauteloufnefseven of the godly, that they venture on a fold thing who would not on a greater yet even with them it is fome aggravation of the fin, that they cannot bear fo fmall a matter as the difpleafing of their appetites in fuch a trifle : and that they cannot deny themfelves, where they may do it at fo cheap a rate ; and that they have the hearts to difpleafe God, and wrong their fouls for a cup or a model which their appetite bath a mind to. He lets little by Heaven or the favour of God, that will venture it for fo fmall a thing. It bath oft times abatedmy compattion to dying men, when I have known that their death was caufed by a wilful( obeying their appetite againfl the perfwafion of their Phyfitian; and be the perfon never fo dear to me, I feel that there is fome- vhat in nature that inclineth us to confent to the fufferings of the wiifrill, or abateth our pittyof them in their mifery. It was an aggravation of Adam; fin, that a forbidden morfel could entice him to venture on the wrathof God, and the ruine of himfelf and his potlerity. And it will be a doubleaggravation of your (in, if you will take the fame courfe, and take no warning by him, or by the finning world, that bath followed him to this day [ when the woman taw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleafant to the eye, and a tree to be defired to make one wife, the took of the fruit thereof and did eat ] Gen.26. Thus entered fin, and death by fin. 2. A Nother part of felf-interefi to be denyed, is, the pleating a' of Willi' venereous inclinations. Not only in avoiding the grofs aft of adultery and fornication it felt; but alfo in avoiding the pleating of any of the fenfes by lafcivious salons that lead to this ; efpecially fome men that are naturallyprone to tuft, have need to fet awork both faith and reafon, and fome- time call for help from others to quench thefe dangerous hellifh flames;
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