A plain and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Proverbs…A plaine and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Prouerbs…

That the dead are there, &c. That all that give themselves to such courses are strangers from the life of God, and in the power of the first death; and in the depth of hell, that is, are as certain to be damned in the world to come (unless God give them repentance) as if they were already in hell fire.

That the dead are there, &c. That all that giue themselues to such courses are strangers from the life of God, and in the power of the first death; and in the depth of hell, that is, are as certaine to bee damned in the world to come (vnlesse God giue them repentance) as if they were already in hell fire.

According as every sin is more delightful, so is it more Doct. dangerous and deceitful. The sweet meats of wickedness ¹will have the sour sauce of wretchedness and misery. Sinfulness will be the bane of transgressors, as the harlot is commonly of adulterers. It is the holy Proverb of God, that when the bread of deceit is sweet to the taste, it turneth to grit, and gravel, to the torment of the teeth. Chap. 20. 17.

According as euery sinne is more delightfull, so is it more Doct. dangerous and deceitfull. The sweet meates of wickednesse ¹will haue the sowre sauce of wretchednesse and misery. Sinnefulnesse wilbe the bane of transgressors, as the harlot is commonly of adulterers. It is the holy Prouerbe of God, that when the bread of deceit is sweet to the tast, it turneth to grit, and grauell, to the torment of the teeth. Chap. 20. 17.

1. 1Sin the more pleasing the more pernicious.