A choice Bed of Spices. 263 manner of wickednefs. A iinful motion, if it be not rejea- ed, will procure content, and content will break forth into aol, and one as will procure another act, until the multi- plying of aais have begot a habit, and that habit hath ch,oakt and flifled-confcience, and when on:e confcience is Rifled and benummed, it will be ready upon all occasions to lay the foul open, andto prof rate it to the.batell and ivora of fins, i 0 !, there is a prodigious evil in the leafy of fins,it will quick- Ilv multiply it felt- into all manner of evils; Lintels fin be cut 'off in the firft motion, it will proceed to a6tion, and from anion to deleaation, and from delight to cuflom, and from cuflom to a habit ; and fo t I will be in eminent danger .ttle thief put in at the win- of being undone for ever. dow, may open the door ronger and greater to come in, that may take away bothlife and treafure at once. A lit- tle wedge makes way for a greater, and fo do little fins make way for greater. Satan and our own hearts will be model} at Eft, and therefore they are often in a combination, fir(} to draw us to feller fins, and then to greater, and fo erom fins lets obnoxious to fins more fcandalous,, till we come to be a- bominable to God, hateful to others, and a terror to our (elves. Such as live in one fin, God will in juflice give over to other fins. The Gentiles gave up themfelves to idolatry, Rom. 1. 23. And God gave them np to nncleanners, ver .24. 'T is ,impoffible for any manto take one fin into his bofom, and to ffliut all others out; he that lives but in the allowance of him- felt in one fin , will find that fin at !all to Phut the door of heaven againft him; and therefore the true penitent turns 11.from fin univerfal I y. Fourthly, The reafons of turningfrom fin, are univerfal- y binding taa penitent foul. There are the fame reafons and grounds for a penitent man's turning from every fin, as there is for his turning from any one fin, Do you turn from this or that fin, becaufe the Lord has forbid it ? why upon the fame ground you mut} turn from every fin, for God has forbid eve- a Harp to- ry fin as well as this or that particular fin; there is the fame As m make the mufick good and.harmo- authority forbidding or commanding in all and if the autho- b 5 mous, a Is nos J'lt i
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