418 Chap. 3r. An Expoftion upon the Booke of Jo B. Vedaa ignoble warre, feeing his greateft wound is in his honour, and the fcarre of that wound is fuch as cannot be taken out. The fcarre of reproach which that finmade in the nameof David, was nor quite wiped away, though the fin as toguilt was Pardo- ned ; God hath caufed that fin of his to be mentioned, even in thole Scriptures where he is pleated to paf a over all his other fins as if he had never find them. Thirdly As it confumes honour, fo the health and ftrength ofthe body, it leaves the man fpiritlefïe, and unfit for the la® bout of any honest orhonorable employment.Sol"mon gives this, among the former, as an argument to draw off all wandringsof affec`fion:after unlawful! pleafures ( Pro. 5. 8, 9, io, i i.) Ré move thy wayfarfrom her, andcome not nigh the doore ofber bong, left thou give thine honour unto others, and thy flares unto the cruel ; left (grangers befaded with thywealth, and tby labours be in the bou/e ofaftranger. ( Thus he urgeth the two former Topicks, poverty and difgrace, then followes this third) And thou mourn at ¡aft when thyfiefb and body are eonfumed. A whorifh woman loth not only waft the fubftance of a mans wealth, which his or his progenitors labour hath gotten, but the wafts alto the fub- iíance ofhis flefh, by which he is enabled to labour, and at laft leaves nothing but a debilitated languishing body,and a mind full ofAnguifb. Fourthly This fire confumes life, and shortens the dayes of span on earth ; it brings untimely old age , or makes a man old before his time, or makes an end ofhim before he hold. I might thew Fifthly, how this fin darkens and dulls the un- derfianding ; how fixthly,ir defiles the confcience; how feventh- ly, it enthralls the will, and makes the affetgions wild ; how eighthly, it deftroyes or weakens the memory ;howninthly, it corrupts all the fences ; how tenthly, it brings wrath, contend. on, divifion and confufions into the family. And Lally , Which is worft ofall, it is fuch a fire as devoures the peace of the foule, andeates up the hopes ofeternal life. Adulte- ry confumes not only toa temporali but to eternal] deftrucion ; Negithia of Thoughwe deny the Popifh diftináionof fins intomortal! and gut to non fiat venial!, yet fame fins ( and this above many) are fpeciallymarkt ejfo J`nem: in Scripture asmortal! fins. Every fin bath death in is the vra- fd. l r, i raft, ges offin as fin (not asgreat) is death .(Rom.6, 23 .) yet this is
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