p gtíouo fait : oil, the very neglect gratifies Mans averfnefs from good ; in Sins of Cornmiílìon, the very violation of the Law complies with his enmi- ty thereunto. Saint aâußin in his Confeíiïons, Pays, That he (tole Apples, that he might, .Frui non re ipfa, fid furto ; that he was, Gratis maim -, e amavit defaitim fïtum; call- ing away the Apples, he feaffed on the ini- quity ; or if he took any of them into his mouth, Condimentum facinto Brat, Sin -was the only fawce thereof. Man drinketh in iniquity like water ; the very fìnfulnefs is connatural. This eligibility before Faith muff needs be very ftrong : for to Man in the pride and felf- flattery of Nature, nothing is fweeter or dearer, than to walk in the way of his Heart, as abfolute unaccountable Lord of all his Aé }ions; but when Faith comes, then it clearly appears, that the corrupt Heart, into which Sin infnuates by 'congruity, is too vile a thing to be gratified ; it fleals a- way from holy Duties,,plays fàlfe after fair promifes, hatches treafon and rebellion a- gainft God, and like a common Strumpet prollitutes it fell to every temptation that paffes by ; to gratifie it, is to feed a difeafe, or vicious humour, fatisfie a grave or gulf of inordinate defires ; put the darling Soul into the mouth of Satan , and defperately leap into the bottomlefs pit : that corruption to,which Sin is fo grateful is -an accurfed thing, deflinated by the Golpel to be cruc --- fied and Clain without mercy; and thofe re- liques 269 Lib. 2: cap. 4.
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