Instructions for a right comforting afflicted consciences with special antidotes against some grievous temptationsInstructions for a right comforting afflicted consciences with speciall antidotes against some grievous temptations

4 It is most infectious: Spits venom on all sides, far and wide: corrupts every thing it comes near. By reason whereof, it is fitly resembled to ^yLeaven; to a ^zGangrene; to the ^aLeprosy; which filthy disease quickly over spreads the whole Body: Numb. 12.10. Infects the ^bclothes, the very Walls of the House: Levit. 14.37 &c. Posterity. 2 King 5.27. The first sin that eve• the Sun saw, was so pregnant with Soul-killing poison, that it hath already damnably polluted all the Sons and Daughters of Adam, that were ever since; and will still by the un-resistable strength of the same contagion, empoison all their natures, to the Worlds end. Nay, at the very first breaking out, it suddenly blasted, as it were, both Heaven and Earth: And so stained the beauty of the one, the brightness of the other, and the original, orient, newly burnished glory of the ^cwhole Creation; that from that hour, it hath groaned ⟨p. 113⟩under the burden of that vanity and deformity, to which this first sin hath made it subject; and will ^dtravail in pain under the bondage of the same corruption, until it be purged by fire, in the great Day of the Lord. It but one sin, be doted upon, delightfully, and impenitently, like a lump of Leaven, it sours all the Soul, defiles the whole Man, and every thing, that proceeds from Him: His thoughts, desires, affections, words, actions, and that of all sorts; natural, civill, recreative, religious. It doth not only unhallow his meat, drink, carriage; His buying, selling, giving, lending, and all His other