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and my soul shall live. And as David once said concerning Absalom, 2 Sam. 18.5. Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom; beware that none touch the young man Absalom, Ver. 12. And the King said, is the young man Absalom safe? Ver. 29. An unsound ⟨p. 169⟩heart is as fond of his bosom sins,¹ of his complexion sins as Jacob was of his Benjamin, or as Jeha was of his calves, or as Naaman was of his Idol Rimmon, or as Judas was of bearing the bag, or as Herod was of his Herodias, ²or as Demetrius was of his Diana, or as the Pharisees were of devouring widows houses,³ and of having the uppermost seats in the Synagogues, and of being saluted in the market places, with those glorious titles, Rabbi, Rabbi. The besotted sinner is most engaged to his bosom sins, his complexion sins, and therefore 'tis as bitter a thing as death for him to part with them;⁴ he had rather part with burnt-offerings and calves of a year old; he had rather part with thousands of Rams, and with ten thousand Rivers of oil; yea, he had rather part with his first-born, than with his bosom sin;⁵ he is ready to give the fruit of his body, for the sin of his soul. Let God frown or smile, stroke or strike, lift up or cast down, promise or threaten, yet he will hide and hold fast his bosom sin; let God set life and death, heaven and hell, glory and misery before him, yet will he not part with his bosom sins; let God wound his conscience, blow upon his estate, leave a blot upon his name, crack his credit, afflict his body,⁶ write death upon his relations, and be a Magor-missabib, a terror to his soul, yet will he not let go his darling sins. An unsound heart will rather let God go, and Christ go, and heaven go, and all go than he will let his darling lusts go: But now a sound Christian, a throughout Christian, he sets himself most against the Delilah in his bosom, against the Benjamin, the son, the sin of his right hand. A sincere Christian looks upon bosom sins, upon complexion sins as the most God-provoking sins; there are no sins so provoking to Gods jealousies and justice, as bosom sins; he looks upon bosom sins, complexion sins, a the most dangerous sins; he looks upon bosom sins, complexion sins, as the worst thing in all the world; he looks upon bosom sins, complexion sins, as more ugly and horrid than the devil himself, or than hell it self;