A choice Bed of Spices. 271 119. too, 1.28. as-that which is molt contrary to all good- nefs and happinefs.. Secondly, In the wills deteflation and hatred of all fin. When the very bent and inclination of the will is fet againfl all fin, and oppofes and et-dies all fin,, and is fet upon the ruin and deftruecion cf all fin, then the penitent is turned from all fin, Row. 7. 15, it 9, 21 23. Ile. 30. 20. Thou Oak call them am ty as a menfirous cloth, thou fhaltfay unto it, pet thee hence. Hofea i4.8. Ephraim (hall fay, what have I to do _any more with Idols. When the will hands upon fuch terms of de- fiance with all fin, as that it will never enter into a league of friendfhip with any fin) then is the foul turned from every. fin ; When the will is fet upon avenging it fell upon all fin, and upon daily endeavours to mortifie and crucifie all fin, then is the penitent turned from all his fins ; when t-hofe fins that were once to the will, as Dalilah to Sanvfon, are now to the will as Tamar to Amnon, then is the foul turned from fin with a ,'vitnefs Thirdly, in the judgments ttirning away from all fin, by difapproving;difallowing and condemning of it, Rom. 7, 15. For that which I do, I allow not ;0 for what I would, that do I not ; but what I hate, that do I. 0, faith the judgment of a Chriftian, fin is the greateft evil in all the world, 'tis the only thing that God abhors, and that brought Jefus Chrift to the Crofs, that damns fouls, that flints heaven, and that has laid the foundati- ons Of hell. 0, it is the pricking thorn in my eye, the deadly arrow in my fide, the two-edged (word that bath wounded my confcience, and Clain my comforts, and feparated between God and my foul. 0, it is that which bath kindred my pray- ers, and itnbittered thy mercies, and put a fling into all my croffes, and therefore can't but difapprove of it,' and dif-, allow of it, and condemn it to death, yea to hell, from whence it came. I thus preach, and thus think (faith Chry- fofiona) that it is more bitter to fin againft Chrift, than to fuf- fer the torments of hell. Plutarch. reports of Moram Cato that he never declared his: opinion in any matter in the Senate, but
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