Bex aims Ointment: , pe, arc c4.1id af-lord mo,.e pleaare than temperance, then fliiioD gbalus" flould have been more happy than A law i n Pa- raolf-e yea, if there were the Ina. real delight in fin, there could be no perfea hell where men fhall perf.,..Ctly fin, and moll perfectly be tormented with their fins. /hark Scholar, faid tie Harlot to Appilcipir, 'tis but a bitter fweet that you are fo fond .of. When an Afp flings a man, it doth at &II tickle him, and make him laugh till the poyfon by little and little gets to his heart, and then it pains him more than be- fore it delighted him. 'Tis fo with fin, it may tickle the foul at firfl, but it will painit at WI with a witnefs. T have read of a Gallant addieted to uncleannefs, who at laft meet - ing with a beautiful Dame, and having injoyed his fiefhly de- fires of her, he found her in the morning to be the dead bo- dy of one that he had formerly been naught with, which had been acted by the Devil all night, and left dead again in the morning ; fo that the Gallant's pleafure ended in no fmall terror. And thus 'tis doubtlefs with all finful pleafures What fin is there fo fvveet or profitable, that is worth burn- ing in hell for , or worth (hutting out of heaven for? &c. But, 6, Sixthly, When men commonly take part with fin, when they take up arms in the defence of fin, and in defiance of the commands of God,ithe -motions of the fpirit, and the checks of confcience, then fin is in dominion he that rea- dily, refolvedly and habitually fights fins battels, is fins fer- vant, and without all peradventure under the reign and domi- nion of fin. Look, as we groundedly conclude, that filch men are under the reign and dominion of that King, that they readily, refolvedly and habitually take up arms to fight for ; fo when the inward faculties of the foul, and the outward members of the body, do readily refolve and habitually take up arms to fight for fin, then and there fin is in dominion, as you may plainly fee by confulting the Scriptures in the. mar-I Rora.6.,0. Eph,a.z,3. gent ; but where the foul readily, refolvealy and habitually ,tus 3.3. - thing Againit it, confii &s with it, and makes war againft it, there 'tis not in dominion, there it reigns.not, as you may fee bye , 11
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