Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…

Thirdly, cast out thy Jonah, every sleeping and secure¹ sin that brings a Tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit. It may be thou hast an execrable thing, a wedge of gold, a babylonish garment, a bag full of unjust gain, gotten by sacrilege, disobedience, mercilessness, oppression, by detaining Gods, or thy neighbours rights; It may be thou hast a Darla, a strange woman in thy bosom, that brings a rot upon thine estate, and turns it all into the wages of a whore; what ever thy sickness, what ever thy plague be, as thou tenderest the tranquillity of thine estate rouse it up from its sleep by a faithful, serious and impartial examination of thine own heart, and though it be as dear to thee as thy right eye, or thy ⟨p. 98⟩right hand, thy choicest pleasure or thy chiefest profit, yet cast• out in an humble confession unto God, in a hearty and willing restitution unto men, in opening thy close and contracted bowels to those that never yet enjoyed comforts from them; then shall quietness arise unto thy soul, and that very gain which thou throwest away is but cast upon the waters, the Lord will provide a Whale to keep it for thee, and will at last restore it thee whole again.

Thirdly, cast out thy Ionah, every sleeping and secure¹ sinne that brings a Tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit. It may be thou hast an execrable thing, a wedge of gold, a babylonish garment, a bagge full of unjust gaine, gotten by sacriledge, disobedience, mercilesnes, oppression, by detaining Gods, or thy neighbours rights; It may be thou hast a Da•la, a strange woman in thy bosome, that brings a rot upon thine estate, and turnes it all into the wages of a whore; what ever thy sicknesse, what ever thy plague be, as thou tenderest the tranquillity of thine estate rouse it up from its sleepe by a faithfull, serious and impartiall examination of thine owne heart, and though it be as deare to thee as thy right eye, or thy ⟨p. 98⟩right hand, thy choicest pleasure or thy chiefest profit, yet cast• out in an humble confession unto God, in a hearty and willing restitution unto men, in opening thy close and contracted bowels to those that never yet enjoy'd comforts from them; then shall quietnesse arise unto thy soule, and that very gaine which thou throwest away is but cast upon the waters, the Lord will provide a Whale to keepe it for thee, and will at last restore it thee whole againe.