CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Fourthly, The Godly man is in danger because of the suitableness of the worlds temptation with that corruption within;¹ So that he hath a dangerous Enemy about the Walls, and a treacherous party within; The world and his heart are in a Confederacy against the good of his soul, so that thou canst not eat or drink, or sleep in safety because of the adversary without, and the Traitor within; If thou hadst Argus his eyes they would be too little to look about thee in this matter, for an Angel who is free from any inward filth to be sent into this world, and to be here doing the will of God, it's no danger, there is no fear that an Angel should sin, because though the world should tempt in all the allurements of it, yet there is nothing within to receive those sparks, but now man carrieth about with him prepared matter of sin, he hath a body and law of sin within him, and therefore the world doth no sooner knock at the door but this root of sin betrayeth all, sets open all, insomuch that the godly man is hardly saved, because there are so many Spies laid in wait to damn thy soul, as there were to kill; Now the Apostle John, 1 Joh. 2.16. when he had exhorted not to love the world or things in the world; He doth divide all the things of the world into three heads, and who is there that liveth in the world that is not in danger of being ensnared and overtaken by one of these.

Fourthly, The Godly man is in danger because of the sutablenesse of the worlds temptation with that corruption within;¹ So that he hath a dangerous Enemy about the Wals, and a treacherous party within; The world and his heart are in a Confederacy against the good of his soul, so that thou canst not eat or drink, or sleep in safety because of the adversary without, and the Traitor within; If thou hadst Argus his eyes they would be too little to look about thee in this matter, for an Angel who is free from any inward filth to be sent into this world, and to be here doing the will of God, it's no danger, there is no fear that an Angel should sinne, because though the world should tempt in all the allurements of it, yet there is nothing within to receive those sparks, but now man carrieth about with him prepared matter of sinne, he hath a body and law of sinne within him, and therefore the world doth no sooner knock at the door but this root of sinne betraieth all, sets open all, insomuch that the godly man is hardly saved, because there are so many Spies laid in wait to damn thy soul, as there were to kill; Now the Apostle