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Sixthly, The evil of nourishing of all manner of wickedness: All sin in Scripture is called flesh, and the work of the flesh, because the pleasure of the flesh is the cause of so much sin in us. When Christ spake of the servant who gave himself to riotousness in his Masters absence, he calls him the evil servant. There are swarms of all manner of evils in sensual hearts; they are the fennish grounds, that breed filthy poysonsom creatures; so all venomous-lusts are ¹bred and nourished by these, Job 40. 21. it is said, the Behemoth lieth in the fens, which Guliel. Parisiensis applies to the Devil in sensual hearts; he lies in moist places, says he; that is, in those whose spirits are moistened by their lusts: Wherefore it is said of the unclean spirit, That he walks in dry places; seeking rest, and found none; But, says he, men giving themselves to pleasures, they seek what they can to give the Devil rest in their hearts, and to keep off all that may hinder his quiet. Flies and Wasps use to ⟨p. 122⟩come to honey and sugar, and such sweet things: The Devil who is called Beelzebub, that is, the God of flies, loves to be in souls glutted with sensual pleasures, ²yea swarms of Devils love to follow such: Hence such as these are most desperate enemies unto godliness, contemners and scorners of all Religion; That which is honest, is vile and contemptible to him, who makes too much of his body, says a Heathen; Where pleasures reign, virtue cannot be, says another. When the Jews accuse Christ of the worst their malice could devise, they call him a Wine-bibber.

Sixthly, The evil of nourishing of all maner of wickedness: All sin in Scripture is called flesh, and the work of the flesh, because the pleasure of the flesh is the cause of so much sin in us. When Christ spake of the servant who gave himself to riotousness in his Masters absence, he calls him the evil servant. There are swarms of all maner of evils in sensual hearts; they are the fennish grounds, that breed filthy poysonsom creatures; so all venemous-lusts are ¹bred and nourished by these,