contrary manner : I befeechyon to begood unto mee, it is my firf offence. Lonefimplicitie,delight infcortiin, &c.] Sinne is moadan- gerous, when it is molt loucd and delighted in. The bell men, fueh as Piul was, cannot but commit it, but yet theyhate it : it is as a yoke on their Heckes, and a burthenon their backer, and not as a chaine or fumptuous garment, but the wicked, whom it moll cruelly woundeth andkilleth,are moth affe&:d therewith, preferring it t,efore all things, and likeofnothing without it, It is a fugred poy- fon that worketh deadly, when it talleth dclicioufly : and bringerhvpon them the greatcfl plagues who hathgiuen it entertainment with ; reate(} pleafure, Whenwickedne¡fe rya freer in hip` mouth (faith Zophar) andhe hid it wider histonate, ,endfanonred it, andwould not forfa'e it, but kept it eke inht. mouth, then the mente is hr: bowelsVas turned,the fall ofAles was in the mi.'ldeft ofhim. RAade lohn 3. i 9. Epher. 4. 19. Etech. 3 3. 3 1. P/gal.73.6. i lohn 2. 15. 16. lames 4.4. Firtt, fo much as wickednetTe is Ioucd,the Lord and fiis Law is hated,as may partly appeateby the end of this (n. tence,end more fully by thole places quoted our of Slone: and S.lo.hn. Secondly,whercLoue is depraued and fit on cuill obied,. all the red of the affections, Feare, Elope, boy, &c. mu needes be corrupted with it, yea, the whole feule is out of order, and therefore alfo the aaions and ways will be all perverted. Thirdly, theywhole heartsare let on finne, are hardly re. claymed from it, for Loue is a Urong band, whether it rye the minde to good or cuill : friends will not cafily be per- fwaded ro part company. See Verf. 16. and Chap. 20.23. Fooles, &c.] They are greater looks that delpile fpirituall vnderflanding, thanwhichare deftitute ofnatural! capacitic. 'See Vcrf.7. andChap. i z, Verf. Y. D,il. 2. Verle. Docir.'3, Reafon, I, Z. . bolir.q,;
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