Chap. 20 .fin Expofition upon the Book of J o B. Verf. 12. 495 late; fweetneffeto the taste is nothing but this fuitaMe.neffe : wickedneffe is fuitable to corrupt nature, therefore wickednee is Tweet, and bath a pleafant tafle, as thole meats which are moft congruous to appetite ; Though it be frreet in his mouth : The mouth is added, bccaufe fenfarion is made there : for when the meare is paled from the mouth to the flomack, there's no more tafle of it, unleffe it fend back fumes to the mouth, which are efually unp'.eafant and diflaflfull. The fenfitive part of the foule o r6né et of which is affected with the pleafure of fin, is here"compared to figpni atú os the mouth : fo that, whatfoever internal delight a man takes !unto+ inferior in the committing ofany iniquity,or in any iniquity committed, appeti ur that is the fweetneffeof it in his mouth : while the inferior fa- culties of the foule are pleafed and takecontentment in fin, they Pen r ve>fat m!u n in ore [so dum in con- cupifcentia & vo/uniate lofe- riórí jib dek= !atur. Bold. may be laid to tafle it. From the Similitude in General Obferve ; That, fen is al food to thefouleofa naturalsor carnali man. Yea it is as food to the natural! part of a regenerate man, Sin is the food of lufl. The fitft fin was committed by eating the forbidden fruit, and now every fin is the eating of force for- bidden fruit. Sin is meate and drinke to the inner not onely in reference to the effe&, becaufe it brings in the bread which force men ease ; as Solomon fpeaks (Pro 4. 17.) They eate the dreadof wickedneffe, anddrinke the wine of violence ; that is, they eate and drinke that bread and wine, which bath been gotten by wickedneffe andviolence, now (I fay ) fin is food, not only in the effec`l and confequence ofit,but alfo(as obedience anddoing the will ofGod is to godly men) in the very aft ; The adopted Tonnes of God fay (in their proportion) as Çhriit faid john the 4-h, This is my meate anddrink, to doe the will of my Father which is in Heaven ; Wicked men fay allo, 'tis their meate and drinke to doe the will of Satan, who is indeed their father Nature is as hungry and thirfly after wickedneffe ; as grace is after righteoufneffe. As there is a hunger and thirft after fpiri- tualls, fo after carnails. The naturali man is not content, till he have his fill ofthem.. The reafon why there is fo much la- bouring paints taken to commit finne, is, becaufe there is a hun- grirg pai,oe provoking to it.: we fay of natural! hunger, It braelec
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