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t9,fòtiuertoperivade
vs-to haf1erkourrepentance.
ouercome ofidleneffe,
it
made
way for
-
adulteries and
adul-
terie formurther.
So
Herod
entertained
incefl,. and
that
o-
pened
a
doore
in his
heart
to
let
in
murther,
and
both
thefe
made open way
for
all
hellifh
impietie;
fo
Iglu
retaining
Rill
his couetoufneffe was
mooned thereby to
betray
his
mailer;
and this
finne
brought
him
firft
to defperation,and
then to
hang
himfelfe;
yea
the
Apofile
Peter
after
that iee
ioyned
himfelfe
in.companie with the
wicked
feruants
of
the
more
wicked high prieft,
at
firft
was
mooned hereby
to
denie
his
mafter, and
vs'hen
bee
had gone
thus
farre,
then
hee
denieth him
againe
with
an
oath,
and when
hee
had
thus
farre
proceeded
in
the
courfe
offinne,
hee maketh no
confcience
of
redoubling
his
oathes, curling
himfelfe
if
hee
knew the
man;
fo
that
the
'longer
wee
let
finne
haue
do-
minion in
vs,
the more
it
will
increafe
it
felfe
in
ftrength
and number,
till
our hearts bee
full
of
finne
and wicked
-
neffe. As
therefore thole citizens were
to
bee accounted
moll foolifh, who
when they
law
an
hundred
enemies
en-
terd into
the.citie,
fhould
deferre the
beating
of
them
out
or killing
of
them,till
they had opened the gate to let' in
tent
thoufand more
better
armed and more
flronglyprouided,
thinking
then to
haue
better
opportunitic,
and
more
abi
litie to giue them
the repulfe;
fo
alike
foolifh
are
thofe who
finding
it
hard and
difficult
to
fubdue fome few
firmes,
to
which they
are
now
giuen, doe
deferre
it
till
the
time
to
cotne, when
as
they are increafed
in
huge multitudes,imagi-
ning
then
to
doe
it with
more
'cafe.
Sinne,
it
is
the
poifon
ofthe
foule,
as
therefore poilons
being
drunke
are
prefently
to
be call
vp
again; otherwife they
dilperfe
themfelues
in
the
veines,and
fo
going
to
thel
wauf
;.death;
fq.this
pçyfon
of
finne
ifit
be
long
kept
in vs,
it
will
difperfe'itfelfe ouer
the
whole
bodie and
foule,
and leafing vpon
the hart,wil plunge
vs
into
euerlafling death
and
deflru
&ion. Sinne
it
is an
hea-
uie
burthen,
and vpon whomfoeuer
it
lieth it
wil
prefle
them
downe
veto hell;
as
therefore
the
way
to
cafe
a
man
of
his
burthen
is
not to
adde more
vnto it,but to
call
it
off,
fo
the
way to
cafe
vs
of
the beanie
burthen
of
finne,
is
not
ro in
create
the waight
by.adding
f
}ill
moreand more vnto
it,but