A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to…

Above all other sins fix the eye of Consideration• on these two. 1. The sin of thy nature. 'Tis to little purpose to lop the branches, while the root of original corruption remains untouched. In vain do men lave out the streams, when the fountain is running, that fills up all again. Let the Axe of thy repentance (with David's) go to the root of sin, Psal. 51. 5. Study how deep, how close, how permanent is thy natural pollution; how universal it is, till thou dost cry out with Paul's •ee••ng, upon thy body of death, Rom. 7. 2. Look into all thy parts and powers, and see what unclean vessels, what fi•es, what dunghills, what sinks they are become. He• miser, quid sum? vas ster quilimi […] faetore & horrorc. August. […]. c. 2. The heart is ⟨p. 119⟩never soundly broken, till throughly convinced of the heinousness of original sin. Here fix thy thoughts. This is that, that makes thee backward to all good, prone to all evil, Rom. 7. 15. that sheds blindness, pride, prejudice, unbelief into thy mind, enmity, unconstancy, obstinacy, into thy will; inordinate heats and colds into thy affections; insensibleness, benumbedness, unfaithfulness into thy conscience, slipperiness into thy memory, and in a word, hath put every wheel of thy soul out of order, and made it of an habitation of holiness to become a very hell of iniquity, James 3. 6. This is that that hath defiled, corrupted, perverted all thy members, and turned them into weapons of unrighteousness, and servants of sin, Rom. 6. 19. that hath filled the head with carnal and corrupt designs, Mic. 2. 1. the hand with sinful practices,