uptm the Epiflle of JAM li s. ture are dircflly repugnant to the love ofCjod, or our. N cighbeur. But alas l aU this is to be \\'ife 111ithout the Wor.d: 'Tts true yod bath expreOy declared more of his di(pleafare againfr thefe Sins then others, and therefore we are more bound and engaged to avoid II9 them, but they are all Mtrrtal in their Merit. . . It te:acheth us how to il:op the violence of Lufi , thts Will b€ V fe T. Death andDamnation. Qh, confider it, and fee it as a fl a--rrJing Swod in the way of your C,;rrnal delights. Obferve how wifely God hath ordered it,much ofiln ispleti{{mt, I, but there's Death ir; tl1e pot, and fo Fear may counteroallance 'Delight; an"other parr ofGn isj"tri~tu, as wordlinefs, in which there is oo grofs Act, and fo there beingnothing joule to work upon fharne, there is fame– thing Dreadful to work upon Fear : Well rhen, awaken the Soul, conf1der what wifdome faith, Prov. 8. tdt. He that forfak..eth me loveth death; 'cis againfi nature for a Creature ro love its own death, all naturall motions are for felf- prefervation : Oh,w'hy then !hould I fatisfie rny Ae0:1, to endanger my foul~ God himfelf puts on apaffion, and reafoneth thus with us, E :tck.:. I I. why V. 7 ill ye d]e, 0 mufe ofljrae!? Why will you wilfully throw away your own Souls? Why will ye for a fuperfluous Cup,adventure to drink a Cup ofwrath unmixed? · For alittle efiace in the world,make hell your portion? •fis fweet for the p~efent, but 'cwillbe Death;fm's beft is foon fpent, the "Worft is alwaie~ behind. It fheweth what r~afon we have tomortifiefin,lefr it mortifie us; Vfe z, no fins are mortal,but fuch as are not Mortified,eitber fin rn1,1fi qye, or the finner: The life of fin, and the life ofafinner , are like two Buckets in aWell, if the one goeth up, the other mufi go down; when fin liveth, the (inner muft dye; there is an rrvil in fin, and an evil after fin : the evil in fin, is the violation of Gods Law, and the e?Jil aft erfin, is the jufi puni!hmem ofit. Now thofe chat are not fenfible of the evil infin, tlull be fenfible of the evil «[ter fin. 1_' o the regenerate perlon,all Gods difpenfations are to fave the perjo;q., and defiroy thefin, Pfal. 99· 8. Thott waft a (jod that f~rgaveff them, and took.§ft vengear_Jce ~'ftheir inventions. God ~.eared the (inner, and took vengeance on the fin ; but the unmorttJied . perfon fpareth his fins, and his life goeth for it, as "the ApofileTaut fP.ettketh ofhimfelf, when the power of the word came firit upon htm , Rom, 7• 9· Sin revived, and I dyed. Sin was exafperated, andhe felt nothingbut terror and condemnation. Oh, then con.. .fider
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