A choice Bed of Spices. 259 known lull, yea thOugh it be but in a fin of the tongue, his i Religion is in vain, and that one lufl will feparate him. from ' God for ever. If a Wife be never Co orricious to her Husband in many things, and though the gives him content feveral wayes, yet if the entertains any other Lover into his bed be- fides himfelf, it will alienate his affeaions from her, and for ever feparate him from her. The. application is eafie. To turn from one fin to another,is but to be toiled from one hand of the Devil to another it is but with Benhadad, to recover of one difeafe and die of another, it is but to take pains to go to hell. If a Ship fprinn three leaks,and only two be flopped, the third will fink the Ship ; or if a man have two grievous wounds in his body, and take order only to cure one, that - which is neglected will certainly kill him : 'Tis fo here, if a man that has divers lufts fighting againit the life of his preci- ous foul, {hall only mortihe and flay fome of them, the reft will certainly deflroy him, and all his pains in fubduing fome of them will be loft. I have read of a devout man, who had amongfl many other vertues, the gift of healing, unto whom divers made refort for cure ; among the reel, one Chromatics being lick fent for him, being come he told him of his fick- nefs, and desired that he might have the benefit of cure as - others had before him : I cannot do it (faid the devout per- ' \fon)till thou haft beaten all the Idols and Images in thy houfe to pieces. 0, that shall be done, faid Chromatius, here take ?my keys, and where you find any Images let them be defaced, 1 which was done accordingly ; to prayer went the holy man, but no cure was wrought. 0, faith Chromatics, I am as lick as ever, 0, I am very weak and lick : It cannot be otherwife, replyed the holy man, nor can I help it ; for 'certainly there is one Idol more in your houfe undifc0ered, and that mutt be defaced too. True, (ayes C hromathts, there is fo indeed, there is one all of beaten gold, it cofl zoo 1. I would fain have faved it ; but here take my keys again, you {hall find it locked ' up fall in my chef', take it and break it in pieces; ,vhicki done, the holy man prayed, -and Chromitim was healed. The moral of this Rory is this : We are all fpiritually lick, full ofwounds and putrefied fores ; Chrift our fpiritual Phy- L 1 2 fician diamond fpoyls the price of it,. one puddle it We wallow in it, will defile us, one head of garlick will poyfon a Leopard, fay the Naturalith,
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