Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

First, To persons. Thus in Ezek. 21.25. when the Lord by the Prophet spake to Zedekiah, it was in this language: Thou profane, wicked Prince of Israel. His profaneness did arise from, or rather consist in his wickedness, for he had grievously polluted himself with Idolatry and Perjury, with cursed persecutions and the blood of the Innocents. He was both a stranger and enemy to all piety, and purity, he ingulfed himself in wickedness, and laboured with all his might to draw others of his Subjects, both noble and base into the same practices, and to Plunge them as deep as himself. Esau hath the same brand set upon him, Heb. 12.16. Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his Birth-right. A prophane person, qui nihil habet sacri, who hath in him nothing Sacred, nothing of holiness, who violates, neglects, tramples under foot holy things; who so pleaseth himself in filthiness as to wallow in it; in whom the love of the world is so predominant, & to pleasures, riches and honours he is so addicted, that he prefers them before the grace of God, and the Kingdom of Christ in himself and in the world. Such an one as valued carnal things above spiritual, earthly above heavenly and a small fleshly enjoyment above so great and advantageous a privilege as the Primogeniture.

First, To persons. Thus in Ezek. 21.25. when the Lord by the Prophet spake to Zedekiah, it was in this language: Thou prophane, wicked Prince of Israel. His prophaneness did arise from, or rather consist in his wickedness, for he had grievously polluted himself with Idolatry and Perjury, with cursed persecutions and the blood of the Innocents. He was both a stranger and enemy to all piety, and purity, he ingulph'd himself in wickedness, and laboured with all his might to draw others of his Subjects, both noble and base into the same practices, and to Plunge them as deep as himself. Esau hath the same brand set upon him, Heb. 12.16. Lest there be any fornicator or prophane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his Birth-right. A prophane person, qui nihil habet sacri, who hath in him nothing Sacred, nothing of holiness, who violates, neglects, tramples under foot holy things; who so pleaseth himself in filthiness as to wallow in it; in whom the love of the world is so predominant, & to pleasures, riches and honours he is so addicted, that he prefers them before the grace of God, and the Kingdom of Christ in himself and in the world. Such an one as valued carnal things above spiritual, earthly above heavenly and a small fleshly enjoyment above so great and advantageous a priviledge as the Primogeniture.