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6 Because sin is infinite in their desires, and the desire of sinning God judgeth sin it self. As the desire of grace is grace, and the desire of repentance is one degree of repentance: so the concupiscence of iniquity is the iniquity.^g He that l•sts after a woman, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart. Optans, oper••: desiderator, scortator. Now what is more insatiate than the desires of the wicked? They enlarge themselves beyond all bounds, and are scarce limited with the world. How unsatisfied is the adulterers desire! he goes from woman to woman, as the sick man from fountain to fountain, and none can quench his thirst. For woman is not the bounds of lust, but womankind. Loves number is no number, but one: he that errs from that, is incessant in concupiscence; and if it were possible, would embrace all the beauties he sees, in his luxuriant arms. Vice hath no mean, measure nor cessation; till it hath no being. One wife is the desire of love, but lust would have infinite. And though it be straitened to enjoy but one at once: ye• it hath an infinite desire to many; neither doth all the variety of the earth change it: whensoever his pleasure is served, he is the same man he was before, and begins again to desire a fresh. For lust is still a beginning, and would more common be than any one, could it, as other sins, be done alone. But age ceaseth it, therefore not infinite: then^h Desire faileth? yet many in age though they cannot desire, yet desire to desire. Now an infinite fire of lust, must have an infinite fire of hell. What limits hath the ambitious desire? what degrees of honour, though Phaeton like to for in the chariot of the Sun, would content him? Let him reduce all the kingdoms of the world to one monarchy, and possess as much as ever the devil promised Christ: yet Aestuat infaelix angusto limit mundi, he wants elbow-room. He calls for more worlds, or, is angry that God made this no bigger: yea erects his statute, and would be worshipped as the Lord himself. He thought the whole earth too little for him, and why should God think the whole hell too much for him? The Angel that would have all the glory in heaven, is justly damned to all the pains i• hell. If thou be infinite in thy sinning, why may not God be infinite in thy punishing.