An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

with the worm we crawl upon the ground; our feebleness and infirmity is such, that we must have churches to rest upon; ⟨p. 314⟩and till faith be made perfect, we cannot but catch hold upon some reed or other, though never so weak.

with the worme we crawl upon the ground; our feeblenesse and infirmity is such, that we must have churches to rest upon; ⟨p. 314⟩and till faith be made perfect, we cannot but catch hold upon some reed or other, though never so weak.

Thirdly, It being an heart-sin, It may be frequently committed in a day, in ¹an hour. Thy heart is always in motion, it never lieth still; now every time it moveth, it may put forth some carnal dependence or other upon the creature. Thus whereas many sins cannot be often committed, there are many things concurrent ere they can be accomplished. This may be committed as often as there is the twinkling of the eye. The air then may not be fuller of Atoms, or the sea of water, than thy heart of carnal confidences. And certainly every time God is not made thy refuge, every time thou doest not rest under his shadow, so often doest thou put trust in something else than God only. Take heed then of that sin, which like the Poets Hydra, as often as thou cuttest off their Heads, new ones arise again in the room thereof. That the emptying of thy heart, is like emptying of a lively and quick spring; the more water is cast out, the more new cometh in immediately.

Thirdly, It being an heart-sinne, It may be frequently committed in a day, in ¹an hour. Thy heart is alwayes in motion, it never lieth still; now every time it moveth, it may put forth some carnal dependance or other upon the creature. Thus whereas many sins cannot be often committed, there are many things concurrent ere they can be accomplished. This may be committed as often as there is the twinkling of the eye. The air then may not be fuller of Atomes, or the sea of water, than thy heart of carnal confidences. And certainly every time God is not made thy refuge, every time thou doest not rest under his shadow, so often doest thou put trust in something else than God onely. Take heed then of that sinne, which like the Poets Hydra, as often as thou cuttest off their Heads, new ones arise again in the room thereof. That the emptying of thy heart, is like emptying of a lively and quick spring; the more water is cast out, the more new cometh in immediately.