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3. It is also sensual: for, it doth senslesly prefer the pleasures of sense and pleasing the appetite, before the peace of conscience and sense of GODS favour. It provides a thousand times better for a body of earth, which must shortly upon an unavoidable necessity, feed the worms, and turn to dust; than for a precious immortal foul, the immediate issue of GODS almightiness, and which can never possibly die: It doth with greater sweetness and hold-fast, relish, apprehend and enjoy the furious delights of some bosom-sin, which it hath in present pursuit, taste and possession, than spiritual graces, GODS favour, joy in that blessed Spirit, and a crown of life hereafter; for which it hath GODS Word and Promise, if it would be wise to salvation. In a word: it doth so highly prefer a few bitter-sweet pleasures for an inch of time in this vale of tears, before unmixed and immeasurable joys through all eternity in the glorious mansions of heaven: Is not this wisdom strangely nailed and glued unto sense, and stupidly senseless in spiritual things, that though many times fore-told and fore-warned by the Ministry of the Word, yet will needs for the ⟨p. 209⟩temporary satisfaction of its carnal, covetous, or ambitious humour, with filthy vexing, transitory pelf, with vanity, dung, nothing, run wilfully and headlong upon easeless, endless, and remediless torments in the world to come? And that which is the just curse and plague of worldly wisdom, (this spiritual madness commonly called) it is confident that it doth wisely, and takes the best way, and thereupon becomes incorrigible and obstinate: For there is more hope of a fool, than of him that is wise in his own conceit, Prov. 26. 22. And, Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar, yet will not his foolishness depart from him, Prov. 27. 22. How fearful then is his case, that to his worldly wisdom joins confidence in his ways? But the day will come that he'll see and bewail the vanity of his wisdom, and the truth of his folly, and that with bitter grief and horrible anguish even in hell fire, as it is notably set down in the book of Wisdom, Cap. 5.

3. It is also sensuall: for, it doth senslesly preferre the pleasures of sense and pleasing the appetite, before the peace of conscience and sense of GODS favour. It provides a thousand times better for a body of earth, which must shortly upon an unavoidable necessity, feed the wormes, and turne to dust; than for a precious immortall foule, the immediate issue of GODS almightinesse, and which can never possibly die: It doth with greater sweetnesse and hold-fast, relish, apprehend and enjoy the furious delights of some bosome-sinne, which it hath in present pursuit, taste and possession, than spirituall graces, GODS favour, joy in that blessed Spirit, and a crowne of life hereafter; for which it hath GODS Word and Promise, if it would be wise to salvation. In a word: it doth so highly preferre a few bitter-sweet pleasures for an inch of time in this vale of teares, before unmixed and immeasurable joyes thorow all eternity in the glorious mansions of heaven: Is not this wisdome strangely nailed and glued unto sense, and stupidly senslesse in spirituall things, that though many times fore-told and fore-warned by the Ministry of the Word, yet will needs for the