The greatness of the soul and unspeakableness of the loss thereof with the causes…

But as I said before, I would not now dispute, only I have thought good thus to urge these things to make my assertion manifest, and to show what is the cause of the damnation of the Soul.

But as I said before, I would not now dispute, only I have thought good thus to urge these things to make my assertion manifest, and to shew what is the cause of the damnation of the Soul.

3. Again, As the Soul receives sin, and retains it so it also doth entertain it; that is, countenance, smile upon, and like its complexion and nature well. A Man may detain, that is, hold fast a thing which yet he doth not regard; but when he entertains, then he ⟨p. 71⟩•••untenances, likes, and delights in the company. […] then is first received by the Soul, as has been […] explained, and by that reception is polluted and ••••filed. This makes it hateful in the Eyes of Justice, is now polluted. Then secondly, this sin is not ••ly received but retained, that is, it sticks so fast, •••des so fixedly in the Soul, that it cannot be gotten it, this is the cause of the continuation of abhorrence: for if God abhors because there is a Being of […] there, it must needs be that he should continue to •hor, since sin continues to have a Being there. But ••••en, in the third place, sin is not only received, […] •etained, but entertained by the now defiled and polluted Soul: wherefore this must needs be a cause of •e continuance of anger, and that with aggravati•••: When I say, entertained, I do not mean, as •••en entertain their Enemies, with small and great ot; but as they entertain those whom they like, and ose that are got into their affections.