The difference between the spots of the godly and of the wicked preached

And then, Secondly, If the disease reach to the heart, it proves deadly. In time of infection, if you can keep it from the heart, you are well enough: Physicians, though they give Medicines to keep the infection from the heart, yet they have never a Medicine to cure the heart, if once the disease get into it: They can keep it out of the heart, but not get it out of the heart: Jer. 4. v. 1. O! thy sin […] evil and bitter, for it reaches unto thy heart, saith the Text: O! that's an evil and bitter corruption that reaches to thy heart, that is, so comes to thy heart, as it finds thy heart to close with that distemper and corruption of thine.

And then, Secondly, If the disease reach to the heart, it proves deadly. In time of infection, if you can keep it from the heart, you are well enough: Physicians, though they give Medicines to keep the infection from the heart, yet they have never a Medicine to cure the heart, if once the disease get into it: They can keep it out of the heart, but not get it out of the heart: Jer. 4. v. 1. O! thy sin 〈…〉 evil and bitter, for it reaches unto thy heart, saith the Text: O! that's an evil and bitter corruption that reaches to thy heart, that is, so comes to thy heart, as it finds thy heart to close with that distemper and corruption of thine.

Thirdly, When the sickness is an increasing sickness. Lev. 13. 8. When the spot spreads, then the Priest must say, it's a spot of Leprosie• So when thou hast some distemper and corruption, and it increases more and more; As it may be thou wert but a little vain, thou growest more vain, &c. Where the disease grows more and more upon thee, take heed it's a spot of Leprosy, and may prove to b• thy ruin.