A choice Bed of Spices. 291 fin lived in and allowed, will damn a man for-ever ; one wound firikes Goliah dead, as well as three and twenty did Cxfar ; one Dalilah will do Sampfon as much mifchief, as all the Philiftines ; one wheel broken, fpoyls all the whole clock ; one vein's bleeding will let out all the vitals, as well as more;one bitter herb will fpoyl all the pottage; by eating one apple, Adam loft Paradife ; one lick of honey endanger- ! ed Jonathan's life ; one Achan was a trouble to all /frac/ ; one 7onah was lading too heavy for a whole Ship : So one fin lived in and allowed, is enough to make a man miferable for ever. One milftorie will fink a man to the bottom of the Sea as well as a hundred ; fo one fin lived in and indulged, will fink a man to the bottom of hell as well as a hundred. I have read of a great Roman Captain, who as he was riding in his tr- umphant Chariot through Rome, had his eyes never off of a Curtizan that walkt along the ftreet, which made one fay, Behold how this great Captain that bath conquered fuch and fuch Armies,is himfelfconquered by one filly woman! There is never an Hypocrite in the world, but lyes under the con- queft of one bate lull Or another, but lives under the reign and dominion of one fin or another. That foul that can in fincerity of heart appeal to a heart-fearching God, that 'tis otherwife with him (vit. That he does not live nor allow himfelf in any one finful way or praolife) that foul, I dare afire in the Lord's name, is no hypocrite, Pfal. 139, 23, 24. Thirdly, As an HypoGrites heart is never throughly fub- dued to a willingnefs to part with every luft, fo neither is his heart throughly fubdued to a willingnefs to perform all known duties; fometimes he is all for publick duties, bit makes no confcience of clofet-duties, or of family-duties ; ' fometimes he is all for the duties of the firfl Table, but makes no confcience of the duties of the fecond Table ; and fometimes he is all for the duties of the fecond Table, but makes no confcience of the duties of the firft Table ' if he obeyes one command, he wiilthgly lives in the negl e. aof an- other ; if he does one duty, he will be fare to call off ano- P p z ther I Swehoiwt. Gen. 3. 1 Sam.,4. 33. Joni. 7. Jonah X.
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