The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

Direct. 10. Let Faith make Gods service pleasant to you, and lose not your delight in G•d and godliness, and then you will not relish sinful pleasures. You will find no need of such base delights, when you live on the foretaste of Angelical pleasures. You will not be easily drawn to steal a morsel of dung or poison from the Devils table, while you daily feast your souls on Christ: or to steal the Onions of Egypt, when you dwell in a Land that floweth with milk and honey. But while you keep your selves in the wilderness, you will be tempted to look ⟨p. 420⟩back again to Egypt. The great cause of mens sinning, and yielding to the temptations of forbidden pleasures, is because they are negligent to live upon the pleasures of Believers.

Direct. 10. Let Faith make Gods service pleasant to you, and lose not your delight in G•d and godliness, and then you will not rellish sinful pleasures. You will find no need of such base delights, when you live on the foretast of Angelical pleasures. You will not be easily drawn to steal a morsel of dung or poison from the Devils table, while you daily feast your souls on Christ: or to steal the Onions of Egypt, when you dwell in a Land that floweth with milk and hony. But while you keep your selves in the wilderness, you will be tempted to look ⟨p. 420⟩back again to Egypt. The great cause of mens sinning, and yielding to the temptations of forbidden pleasures, is because they are negligent to live upon the pleasures of Believers.

Direct. 11. Take heed of the beginnings, if ever you would escape the sin. No man becometh stark nought at the first step. He that beginneth to take one pleasing unprofitable cup or bit, intendeth not drunkenness and gluttony in the grossest sense: But he hath set fire in the thatch, though he did not intend to burn his house; and it will be harder to quench it, than to have forborne at first. He that beginneth but with lascivious dalliance, speeches or embraces, thinketh not to proceed to filthy fornication: But he might better have secured his conscience, if he had never meddled so far with sin. Few ruinating damning sins, began any otherwise than with such small approaches, as seemed to have little harm or danger.