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1\TEx,
21.
phefan.r,Chap.4.
we might come to
a
new more glorious
condition.
Sting
Tufts
doe corrupt
us
throughout, we
muft
as
Peter
exhorteth,
abflaine from
them.
We
would
not
feede
upon that
this fpring,
that
we know
would breede
us
difeafcs
at the
fall
:
fo much
more
muft we
svoyd
that which
will bring
fiickneffes,
nay
death to
foule and
body.
For looke
as
holineffe
is
the beginning
of
life
everlafting,
whichgo-
eth 'until[
it
end
in
glory
:
fo
is
finne
the death
of
the foule,
which
doth
(if
the
grace
of Chrift
heale
it
not) never
flay till
it
commeth
to
everlafting
damnation;
I
mean
the body
of
finne
dwelling
in
us;
for
even
as
noyfome
favours
come from
a
putriied
body,
fo
doe thefe
motions from acorrupt
foule.if
thy
child doe fwerve
from morality,
and civil
vertue,following whores,be
a
rioter,a
theefe,
&c.when thou
feet} an
abfence
of
civili
vertue, thou fayeft, he
is
even
a
loft child:
what then
(hall
we thinke
of
our (elves,
being without
all heavenly
venue
of
faith, hope, joy
in
the
Spirit, godlineffe, temperance
t
&c.
Wherefore
learne we to confider
of
finne and
our efiate through ir,
that
we
who
have not
thought
of
it, may yet let our hearts
to
the
way
of
life;
that
we may
be thankefull
who
have efcaped from
it; that
we
may
take heede
of
it,
and
labourto be
healed
of
it more
and
more.
Should fome learned
Phyfrrian
tell you, loch or
filch
a
deadly thing
were
growing on your
body,
how would
you rhanke him and make
ufe
of
it
.
Oh
it
is
well
with thee,
if
God
make thee
wife,
that thou
heareft this
day, how thou art
in
every part
corrupt,
even
dead
in
Spi-
rit. How glad
are
we when we
efcape fome
de.fperate
bodily
fickneffee
and
if
theredwellreliquesoffickematter
with
us, we keepe rules de
[agitate taenda,
how
much more fhould
webe
wife
for
our foules
The
old
man corrupt
with
deceiveable
Infle.]
0bferve,
That
not fame
one
fngle
loft
or
finne,
but
many
lifts
befit the unregenerate
perfos.
There
.
is
in us all a
body
of
finne,and
the Apoftledoth
bid
us
crucifie
our earth-
ly
members,
naming many particular finnes, fornication, ancleannefi,
covetoufnefa
,inordinateafeclions, &c. For
as
a naturali
body hath not
one
mernberonely but divers,fo
this fpirituall
body
of
finne
bath
not
onely
one, but
many evills
to
make it
up.
Which
is
to
be marked
against filch
as
ignorantly, when they
give
entertainment
to
fome one finne, thinke
they
have
no fault but
that
one
in
which they
live.
Therefore when their
confciences
upbraid
them with
the
finne in
which they
live, thus
they
falve the
matter;
they confeffe
the
finne,
but comfort themfelves that though
it be a
faulr,yet
it
is
their only fault,they
hope if
a
man
fpeak
that bythem,he
bath fpoken
his
worft,
be
hath
Paid
all he can
fay; not knowing
that
it
is
not one
Tuft
that hangeth about
a
naturali man,
but if
the matter be
Well
examined,
a
man
is
nothing but
a
fardell
of
divers
fnfulllufts.
And
as
in
the body great
difeafes
never goe alone,
but
have pety in-
firmities
accompanying
them,
fo
iris
in
the
foule
in
regard
of
frnnes.
3.
It
is
to
be marked, That
frnfulllufis are
exceeding
deceiveableahus
the
holy Ghoft attributeth this
to
finne,
that
it
is full
of
deceitfulneffe,
'Heb.3,X3.
Exhort
one.
another,
left any
be
hardened through the de-
cettful-
531
Yfe
3.
And to obiiain
from lulls
which
fo
cor-
rupt
us.
Doit.
Anunregene-
rateman is full
of
evill
lulls.
Rom 6.6.
Col.
;.
f.
Yfe.
Unregenerate
mea
arc
..
decei-
ved who
think
they have but
forre
one fin.
Doti.
Sinfu4luf
s
a
re deceitful!.