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Secondly, To Bad purpose: The unconverted soul is a very cage of unclean birds, Rev. 18. 2. a Sepulchre ⟨p. 52⟩full of Corruption and Rottenness, Mat. 23. 27. a loathsome carcass full of crawling Worms, and sending forth a hellish and most noisome favour in the nostrils of God. Psalm 14. 3. O dreadful case! Dost thou not yet see a change to be needful? would it not have grieved one, to have seen the golden consecrated Vessels of God's Temple turned into quaffing bowls for drunkenness, and polluted with the Idols service? Dan. 5. 2, 3. Was it such an abomination to the Jews, when Antiechus set up the picture of a Swine at the entrance of the temple? How much more abominable then would it have been to have had the very Temple it self turned into a Stable, or a Sty, and to have the holy of holies served like the house of Baal; to have the Image of God taken down, and be turned into a draught house? 2 Kings 10. 27. This is the very case of the unregenerate; all thy Members a•e turned into instruments of unrighteousness, Rom. 6. 19. Servants of Satan; and thy in most powers into receptacles of uncleanness, Eph. 2. 2. Tit. 1. 15. You may see the goodly guests within, by what comes out. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, Murders, Adulteries, Fornications, Theits, False witness, Blasphemies, &c. This black guard discovers what a Hell there is within.

Secondly, To Bad purpose: The unconverted soul is a very cage of unclean birds, Rev. 18. 2. a Sepulchre ⟨p. 52⟩