A choice Bed of Spices. Fourthly, When men Ordinarily, habitually, commonly, are very careful, ftudious and laborious, to make provifion for fin, then fin reigns, RoW. 13. ult. Make no provijion for the flefb, to fulfil the lofts thereof ; or as the Greek has.it, Ike noprojeils for t* he flefh, or cater not,for the fief') ; when a mans head and heart is full of .projects, how to gratifie this lull, and how to fatisfie that lull, and how to fulfil t' other lull, then fin reigns, then 'tis iii its throne, Yam-. 4. 3 . re ask and receive not, becaNire you askamifs, that ye may con.fome it upon your' lulls. Both the Law of God and nature, requires me to make provifion of raiment, food and phyfick for my body, and for theirs that are under my charge ; but it May coil me my life, my eflate, yea my veryfoul, to make proyifion for my lulls. Such as ask =ifs, Shall be Cure to ask_and mifs ; he that would make God a Baud to his lulls, may ask long enough' before God will anfiver ; of all affronts- there is none to this.. of making God a fervant to onr lulls, and where thi5 frame of fpirit is, there fin isin dominion. He that abufes mercies to ferve his lulls, 'fight's againfl Goct with his own weapon's; as David did againft Go/iah, and as:Benhadack did againft Ahab, with that very life that he had newly given him ; fuch a. foul, like the waters of Jordan will at laft certainly drop into the dead lake. But, Fifthly, \Alien fin iscoMmonly; halaitually fweet, and the Cola takes a daily plealVe and delight in it,-then it s'eigns; as you may fee by comparing the Scriptures in the IlTargent together ; when a man daily takes as joyful contentation and fatisfaa,Iion in his lulls, and in walking after the wayes of his own heart; ashy does in his highell,:oiltward enjoyments,.01 in hisneareit and deareft relations;thenitertainly lin is. in do - inionsach men as can go conflantiv on in a way of wicked- nefs, rneerly to delight and content the flefh, fuch men are certainly under the power and reign - of fin. Many of the Heathens, who knew, what rational delights' were, fcorned fenfual delights as inferior to/hem : Thefe will one day rife iii judgment againfl many of the P-r-ofeffors. iin our dayes. know there is no real pleahre delight: in fin=; if intern G 2 perance David in an hoar of temptation, once made provi- lion for his kilts, 2buStatinhisi. wias4n? his courfe, his trade, &c. 5. job 20.1 2,i3. Prov..2..r 4. Amos 6. 13. zeph.3.II. 2 Tlaef. $.12.
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