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3 Fudg: 5.26. Sin firſt courts, and then

kills: *'Tis firſt a Fex, and then a Lion; JS Whomloever. fin; kifleth, 1t betrates. I. Thoſe Zocyfts in the Revelations, are the perfe&t Hieroglyphicks and emblems of

fins Or their heads were as it were Crowns :

like gold. and they had hair as women. and ' their teeth were as the teeth of Lions, and they had ſtings inthezr tails, Rev. 9, 7. Sn doth jult as the Uſurer, who feeds a man with money, and then makes him mor- |! - Lage his Land: $o' fin ferds the finner

with

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'F” the worſt,*. -In other debts a * Vecabulum hoe Zen vs Anjue fignihcat rearum

|; finner may fly intoforein parts, & ebjigationem ad par- MH but here hecannot, Pſal. 139.7, nam. Chemnii. Harm,

I2,

I3.

* Hac eſt carnis licen- | tia, quz nos fica Dei manumictir , ut Diabolo manciper,

ſerviture

(alvin.

* Aug. Confefl.

js ſick of pride, another of luſt, another +

to him: ' $o the word © {ſweeter | than the CO ns caſtes |

'/bitter- to *a finner, Ia: 5. 20.': \put -| Jweet for bitter 3 and-if-fin be a wiſe 'It "5 not to'be cheriſhed, bur. rather: pred 'by Repentance.

The Doftrine of Repentance..

with delightful objects, and- then makes I him morgage his ſoul. Judas pleaſed F himſelf with the thirty preces of ſilver, but | they proved deceitful riches ; aſk him now how he likes his bargain. "3

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' 13.Sin is a ſpiritual ſickneſs : One man

of malice : 'Tis with a finner, as ir is ;. with a ſick Patient, his-pallat is diſtem-:3

pered; the ſweeteſt things taſte. bictery Io : God: which is

11h; Sin is a bonda £5 it bindyis man #1 Apprenticets the Devit #3 Of - | all conditions; fervitude 1s' the worſt, Every man is held with | - the cords of his own'fin-/Þ was |+ held before converſion. (ſaith | "Auſtin * ) not with an Jron

, Chain, but with the -obſtinacy of my_ 6.

Fi. (

"will. Sid is imperious atid tyrainca) ;- It is called n+ 4 Law: Rome. 8.05 -eauſe it hath ſuch a binding power over "a man: - have ſimi; He doth not'ſo much exjoy |

be-

'Fhe finger muft- do as fini!will

his

; F \ The DoBrin: B: Hepes: I 59 4

= his luſts-as ſerve them ; and he will have

I þ. work enough to doto gratifie then all *, -* O quam

- Eccleſ. 10. 7." T have ſeen Princes going on \—

| for. The ſonal that princely thing, which a, qui 4

- didionce fitin a chair of State, and was non haber +

. crowned with knowledge-and' holineſs , imum.

now is madea_lacky to fi in, and runs on oY

» the Devils errand. —

_ 1e53Sirv hath a ſpreading wall nity in 1t5 19s

..it doth not only hurtto a mans ſelf; but

\ t& Others > 'one' 'mans ſiy-rfay'! occafion ay

» many to ſin. *As'6ne Beaconbeing lights"

» 642 thay occafion'-all the Bedovns in T hi

"* Country to"'be- lig heed. Oneman may-

help to defile miatly *, A perſs ON - » pico jar bi. leſs

that hath the plagae,goingi int6 Ted 'dememiam ſpazgit,

S-=5 death not know how Forney oe, -

_ many have gotren the plagde' of lim,

. Thou'that art guilty of open) ins;knioweft”

- not'how many have' been infected by

|. thee*,” Thetemnay beidivers for ought * Quid al-

thou knowelt, how? in Hell; efying out, —_— that' they had never come thith r,/ Hf Tt! tuilligla-

| tad not been for'thy bad example; ouſt d-Tewak,

' £ 46.Sinis {veXatious things it brings I'6,

trouble with it. The curſe which God _

| lid'uponthe.woman, is moſttruly laid -

4 ups every ſinner, Gen. 3. 6/218 ſorrow ©"

s | on ſhalt bring:forth. Aman vexeth his

thoughts

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d YO TT. 0, BG. LET ?

- C0 act : et The Do@rine of Repentante. 'E thoughts in plotting of fa 3 and when ' FF

fin hath conceived, ## ſorrow he brings , Þ' forth - Like one who takes a great deal; +}

of pains in opening a flood-gate, and. »

when he hath opened it, theflood cames, :.þ; in upon him, and drowns him : So aman. .”

beatshis brains to contrive fin, and then

* Morrali-

wm erry

fare dxmonum.

it vexcth his conſcience *, brings croſſes, 7 3 is his eſtate, yots the well gud timber of If

his houſe, Zach, 3 h=—

I6,Sin isan abſurd thing-What greater. , ' ut indiicretion ithan to gratifie an enemy 2: > Sin gratifies Satan. When luſt or anger. "Nl.

burn inthe-ſoul, Satan warms himſelf at "FG this fire. ,,Mens ſins feaſt the Deyil'*- Sampſon wascalled aut to make the Lards © of the Philiſtizes ſport, Fudg, x6. 25..So ;Mh

the ſinner, makes the Deyil ſport. 'Tis -Þ. How doth he laugh to ſee them ventur-

ſhould fiſh for Gudgeons with golden *

- hooks. Every wicked man ſhall be1n-

19, *Quer ie fin thou :committeſt, thou giveſt a ſta

ria ror yul-

ner,

dicted at the. day of judgement for a foot _...:; -- ,$; 18, There 1s enicltyan CO AIacry

to'thy ſoul *. While thou art kind ro

ſin,

*F fm, thou art cruel to: thy felf * like hint

Þ.} itt the Goſpel, who did cut himſelfayith:

> ſtones till the blood came, Mark'5;%:

.& The finner is like th& Jaylor,! Wbidrew