74 ¢CfoU ,TdttLi. the deeds of the body, you fhall lve,ifyou for untò the flefh,you mntl reap corruption,ifunto the fiiirit, life everlafling. O my foul ! be not deceived ; God and fìn,Chrift and Belial, heaven and hell, cannot mix together. Say then,O my foul,what wilt thou have ?the mefs of pottage,or the birth - right,the pleafures of fin,or thole at 'Gods right hand,the worlds trinity of lulls, or communion with the bleffed Trinity in heaven ? Thus the foul fits down and calls up the coil ; fin on and burn in hell for ever, turn to God and aline in eternal glory,fpare thy lulls and damn thy foul, flay thy lulls and fave it.Oh!what a fearful cheat is fin ? it proffers a profit or a pleafure,and asks a foul,it holds out a moment or two,and would have eternity in pawn for it ; it tickles the fenfe, and f abs the confcience;it courts and flatters like the orange woman, and leads down to hell and death.Such deliberations as thefe make way for retìgnation; an indeliberate refignation is but a flafh and away, but a deliberate one is fit to en- dure. F'ourthly,After all this the holy fpirit doth fo far prefs in the holy light, as to work a denial of a mans felfand his lulls in fome meafure.I fay,in f óme me'afure,for without fòme meafure of felf- denial,a man will never resign up himfelftoGod and Chrift. Thus our Saviour, If any man will come after me,let him deny himfelf, Mat. i 6. 2 4. firft deny himfelf,and then go to Chrift: and a- gain,Come unto me all ye that labour and are hea- vy laden, Mat.' 1.28. tiro be weary of fin, and then go to Chritl ; no man canferve two Majlere, f
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