Chap. 3 3. An Expofition upon the Bookof .1 o B. Verf. 27. 45 5 Hence learne. There is nothing gotten yy frn, no good is gotten by it. The Apoflle puts the queflion co finders (Rom: 6. 21. )what fruithad ye then , ¡n thofe things whereof ye are noie afhameci? Cal up your account , and tell us what you findat the foot of ir. Po.fibly fome may fay , we havegotten hundreds and thoufands, we have gotten houles and lands, our barnes are full ofcorne, our fields of cattel, and our bags are full of treafure. But is it profit tohave houle and land, gold and liver come in by fin ? Let that Scripture anfwer ( Math: i 6. 26. ) what is a manprofited if he fhaltgaine thewhole world and lóofehis ownfoule ? But fonte may fay, they that are in Chrifl cannot loofe their foules by fin. I an- fwer; Firft, though they that are inChrifl cannot be fuch finfuli foules,as to finaway their foules, though they cannot fin at fuch a rare, nor in luth' a height as to Toole their foules who have itr-- deed found ChriR, or rather who are found of him, and planted in him;, yet che.dammage which every finunrepented of and un pardoned putsmanto is the Joffe of hisfoule. Secondly,.fuppofe allot= repenteth,;what bathhe gotby fin, but the forrows of re- pentance. And though no-man shall have caufe to repent oftrue repentance for fin, . yet no man (hall have caufe toboarsof the penny-worth he bath had by fin which bath occafiorid the forrows of that repentance: Onehoures communion with God in wayes of holinefs is better then all the profitsandpleafures which any man kath got while be was committing that fin, or runningany courfe of fin , whereof he now repentech. At the belt fin difhonours Cod, troubles our confciences, and breakes our peace ; at the bell nothing is got by fin which is worth the having , at worll the foule is loll by ir, which of allahings we.have is-mofl worth the, having, Thirdly , Note. Sin is exceeding dangerous anddeffruftive tomat. Sonie would fin for the pleafures and carnal contentments- which are found infin,though they knew they Ihould make no earnings,.or get no profit by it, yea though they knewthey fhould; be and dye beggers by it. Once more, if this were all,that they tkould lodeheavenbyit,or ifthe meaningof ladingtheir foules . were
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