Chap. zo. 4nExpofîtion upon the Booke of J O B, Verf 14. 509 Secondly, Note; Sin bath not only bitternefe in it, but there is death in it. MI gall is bitter, but the gall ofAfps is deadly. Sin is a dead- ly poyfon for though it be pleating a while, yet 'tis killing in the end ; The bitterneffe that floweth from finis the bitternefe ofdeath : If after it hash yeelded us a little unfatisfying plea- fure, it fhould onely conclude in paine, this might not onely difcredit it in our opinion, but provoke us to call it for ever both out ofour affeetion and praElife ; how then fhould our hearts be turned from it, and rife agausít it, whenwe are allu- red that this paine is as a poyfon, and that this poyfon is unto; death ? Thirdly , Note;, Though fin be deadly,yet it leaves thefirmerfenfelef e of death. Sin deftroyes, and the man knows not what hurts him. Every Evil! is by fomuch the worfe, byhowmuch it leaves us leffe ap., prehenfiveof theevil! it doth us. Thofe wounds may be molt. mortal!, ofwhich at prefent we feele leaft paine. Laftly , Obferve ; It is a dangerous thing to keepfins counfell, or to, conceale it. The wages elfin( committed) is death. But thewages offin concealed, is theworft of that death. Every fin tolled bath in it the feede ofdeath, but fin hidden under the tongue; andkept in the mouth, by denying, diffembling,. or excufing it, is a dead" ly poyfon. TheGofpell hath a remedy againit that death which isdeferved by the aping offin, but it bathno Antidote againft the poyfonofa ftudicd and continued concealement of.finne 9 , Tit the gallofAges within him.
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