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The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Sermon 5: How may we be so Spiritual, as to check Sin in the first risings of it?
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This flesh in man, this corrupt and depraved nature, is perpetually fly-blown with evil lustings. This body of death, like a rotten carcass, is constantly breeding vermin, as a filthy quag-mire, a noisome Mephitis or Camarina, sends out stench and unsavouriness. This Region of the lesser World (like Africa in the greater) swarms with monsters, it is the valley of the shadow of death, a habitation for dragons, and a Court for Owls, where dwells the Cormorant and the Bittern, the Raven the Screech-owl, and the Satire, if I may allude to that of the Prophet, Isa. 34.11, 12, 13, 14. The Apostle sets down elegantly the whole pedigree and lineage of evil, Jam. 1.15. Then when lust hath conceived, it brings forth sin, and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Lust is the root of bitterness, fruitful in all the unfruitful works darkness, and these like the Apples of Sodom and Clusters of Gomorrah if you gather them, crumble into the dust and ashes, of death, they are fruits nigh unto a curse, and whose end is to be burnt. That is the first. The old Adam, 1the flesh with it's lusts.
This flesh in man, this corrupt and depraved nature, is perpetually fly-blown with evil lustings. This body of death, like a rotten carcase, is constantly breeding vermine, as a filthy quag-mire, a noisom Mephitus or Camarina, sends out stench and unsavouriness. This Region of the lesser World (like Africa in the greater) swarms with monsters, it is the valley of the shadow of death, a habitation for dragons, and a Court for Owls, where dwells the Cormorant and the Bittern, the Raven the Scrich-owl, and the Satyre, if I may allude to that of the Prophet, Isa. 34.11, 12, 13, 14. The Apostle sets down elegantly the whole pedigree and lineage of evil, Jam. 1.15. Then when lust hath conceived, it brings forth sin, and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Lust is the root of bitterness, fruitful in all the unfruitful works darkness, and these like the Apples of Sodom and Clusters of Gomorrah if you gather them, crumble into the dust and ashes, of death, they are fruits nigh unto a curse, and whose end is to be burnt. That is the first. The old Adam,