The spiritual watchThe spirituall vvatch

Neither indeed can we ^tclosely cleave to that that is good, till we have brought our hearts to detest and abhor that that is evil. Which thing if it were once throughly wrought in us, there should not need much Rhetoric to persuade us to watch both against sin and against all occasions of it: We would of our selves be careful enough to shun and avoid that, which our hearts abhorred, and could not brook or abide. For as the meat that a man loatheth, he cannot endure so much as the sent or savour of it, nay nor, it may be, the sight of it: so would it be with us in regard of sin, had we the like inward dislike and loathing of sin in our souls. And ^uone main cause of relapse into sin, and of want of due watchfulness against it, in those that for some time have surceased the practise of it, is because they never hated it in heart, though they could not but in judgement condemn it, being evidently convinced in conscience of the evilness of it: ^xtheir heart looked still ⟨p. 105⟩after it (though their hand for fear or other respect were for a while with-drawn and with-held from it) ready therefore when such respects as before stayed and restrained it were at any time removed, to give friendly entertainment unto it again.

Neither indeed can we ^tclosely cleaue to that that is good, till wee haue brought our hearts to detest and abhorre that that is euill. Which thing if it were once throughly wrought in vs, there should not neede much Rhetoricke to perswade vs to watch both against sinne and against all occasions of it: Wee would of our selues bee carefull enough to shun and auoid that, which our hearts abhorred, and could not brooke or abide. For as the meat that a man loatheth, he cannot endure so much as the sent or sauour of it, nay nor, it may be, the sight of it: so would it be with vs in regard of sinne, had we the like inward dislike and loathing of sinne in our soules. And ^u