262 A Box of precious Ointment : Or,. ExpnrIt. in r- yang. S. jebn, Tr4d. CAi Job, David, Sohmon and Peter,'&c. but a touch on this ftring is enough ' one fin commonly difpcfes the heart to an- other fin, a final! fin many times draws the heart to a greater, Ind one great in draws the heart to another, great fin, and that to a greater, till at laft the foul comes to be drowned in all excefs. ibffifiine relates this Flory of lilinichems, who, being tormented with 'Flies, was of Opinion that the Devil made them and not God ; why then, laid' one that flood by, if the Devil Made Flies, then the Devil made Worms and not God, 'for they are living creatures as well as Flies ; true, laid he, the Devil did make Worms : But Paid the other, if. the Devil did make. Worms, then he did make Birds, Beafts, and Man ; he granted all. And thus faith that old Father by denying God in the Fly, he came to deny God in Man ; and Co confequently the whole Creation. And thus yielding to leffer fins, draws the foul to the comm Ilion of greater, yea often to the greatePc of all. I have both heard and read a flo- g of a young man, who being often tempted by the Devil and-his own wicked heart, to commit three fins, viz,. to kill his father, to lye with his mother, and to be drunk ; the two, former his heart would not yield to, as being things abhor- rent to the light and law of nature, and therefore to free himfelf from the temptation, he yielded to the latl and leaft but when he was drunk, he killed his father and ravished his mother : Thus thefe two abominable fins, Murder and Inceft were ufhered in by one that was not of fo deep a dye. There is fomething in fin, like the radical vertue that is in the feed of Herbs and Plants ; the feed is but a fmall inconfiderable thing in it felf, yet let it be but call into the ground,andthere ref} quietly a time, and it will take root, and grow up to a great flock, and bring forth many flouriihing branches, like the grain of muffard -feed, Mat. 13. 3i, 32. which thoUgh it be the leaft of feeds, yet being call into the ground, grows up to be the greateft among herbs, and becometh a Tree, fo that the birds of the Air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Satan will be fure to Deft himfelf, to lodge, himfelf in the leaft fins (as birdsnefl and lodge themfelves in the fmalleft branches of a Tree) and there he will hatch all manner
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