I4' PRoVERBS. Cbap.2- ./p4kÇ aright : no min repented him of his wickednej7e, ftyin' What haw done ?.,Euery one turneth to hù race, as the horte rulbet h into the battaile,ler. 8, 6. DoUrine° Very kw Adulterers are áoundlycuredofthat fanne, and repent to faluation. All that tall into it doe not certainely perifh : for thera- D iuid could not haue beene faucd, nor thole Corinthians, whom the Apof$le tel$.lfieth to haue beetlewa/hed,fanailied and lufified: but not many which beoncccorruptedthere- with, are throughly cleanCed from it:, and none without rroo. , a 7= great difficul rie. e,1 whore is adeepe ditch, and aflranne zvo.; man is as a narrow pit: that is, the cuílome of conuerling with her is an inextricable intanglement, and filch as is al- nmof$ impofl blc for a man to rid hirnfelfe of. 11 thedcepe Dungeonwere wide, or the narrow. hole (hallow, there were more likelihood of climbing vp, and creeping out : but depth and firaitneffe íoyned together, are two luch impe- diments, as whereby the imprifoncd [inner bccommeth, well-neare hopelcífcand helpletT'e. (iron FiriT, the Harlot bath n fpeciall Art b.Tth to allure men unto her, like a skilful! Fowler, with a call, and to hold them raft from departing away, when thee hath caught them, according to that laying of the Wife-man : I finde, more bitter than death the woman whore heart is as nets, and [hares , and her hands as bonds hee that isgood before God fhall be de/mitred from her , but the fanner fball bo taken- by here Secondly,mans corrupt nature is veryprone to this linne of incontlncncie, and this finne of incontinencie is fo de- lec4able to mans corrupt nature, that after theyareacquain ted together, it is not cane to alienate the one from the other. They which haue beene once inchanted with the baites,offilthy lu[l,had, rather be bond -men than firangers vntO 3, Thirdly, it is a Panne that not oncly bereaueth men of their Palliation, but of their modeflie, and all good dif cretionoic alalseth them lhameleffeand impudcnt:it maketh them
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