A choice Bed of Spices. 265 Fifthly, One fin allowed, wallowed and tumbled in, is 5, fuflicient to deprive a man for ever of the greateil good. Moles came within the fight of Canaan, but for one fin, viz.. not fanotifying God's name at the water of Meribah, he was file out ; for him to be fo neer the holy Land, and yet fo far Vxod. 2,31. off from entring into it, was doubtlefs of all ftroaks the harden that ever he felt. In the Law, the Leper that had the Levit, l3. fpot of leprofie in any one part of his body, was accounted a Leper , although all the reit of his body were found and whole, and accordingly he was to be Phut up, and shut out from the fociety and company of the people of God ; fo one fin, one leprous fpot, allowed and beloved, will for ever fhut a man out from t glorious prefence of God, Chrift, the Spirit, Angels, and the fpirits of jail men made perfect; one fin wallowed in, will as certainly deprive a man of the blef- fed vifion of God, and of all the treafures, pleafures and de- lights that be at God's right hand, as a thoufand. It was a fore vexation to King Lyjimacbm, that he fhould lofe his earthly kingdom for one draught of water. 0 Sirs 'twill be an everlafting vexation to fuck, who for one lutt null at laft lofe not an earthly, but a heavenly kingdom. One fin ftript the fallen Angels of 'all their glory ; and one fin ftript our firft parents of all their dignity and excellency. Satan by one Gen. 3.4, f. loud lye to Adam and Eve made fruitlefs all that God had preacued to them immediately before. To turn from force fins, but not from all, is grofs 'hypocrifie ; one fin fet up in job 20.13. the love and fervice of it, will keettChrift out of his throne; it fpeaks fin to be rampant, and Satan to be victorious ; and what can be the ifl'ue of thefe things, but ruin and damnation ? One flye in the box of precious ointment, fpoyls the whole Rom 6. IS. box ' one thief may rob a man of all his treafure, one difeafe may deprive a than of all his health, one strong wind may blow down and blow away all a man's comforts, and fo one fin delighted an wallowed in, will Make a man iniferable for ever. Though this or that particular fin be very pleafant to the flefh, and delightful to the fancy, yet he as the wifeit man, and he is the belt man, and the only bleft man in all the world, that keeps furthefl fa-omit ; and therefore the M m true ;11
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