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Seventhly, they likewise harden in all manner of evil; when men are heat in sensual delights, their ¹hearts are so glutted, that they never think of their pain. It is observed, that when the people of Israel had got Aaron to make the Calf, and they set down to drink, and rose up to play, they offered burnt-offerings, but no sin-offerings were thought of: These beset the heart, and make it even uncapable of any spiritual good. St. Paul says of the Widows that live in pleasures, they are dead while they live, 1 Tim. 5. 6. Let us eat and drink, to morrow we shall dye: Why do you say, to morrow? says Chrysostom, ye are dead already. We read Ezek. 47. 11. that when the waters of the sanctuary flowed, the miry places could not be healed: How seldom does the waters of the Sanctuary heal miry souls? Augustine says of such, As the earth by too much rain becomes nothing but ²mire and dirt, so as it is made unfit for tillage; so these, Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take away the heart, Hos. 4. 11.

Seventhly, they likewise harden in all maner of evil; when men are heat in sensual delights, their ¹hearts are so glutted, that they never think of their pain. It is observed, that when the people of Israel had got Aaron to make the Calf, and they set down to drink, and rose up to play, they offered burnt-offerings, but no sin-offerings were thought of: These beset the heart, and make it even uncapable of any spiritual good. St. Paul says of the Widows that live in pleasures, they are dead while they live, 1 Tim. 5. 6. Let us eat and drink, to morrow we shall dye: Why do you say, to morrow? says Chrysostom, ye are dead already. We read Ezek. 47. 11. that when the waters of the sanctuary flowed, the miry places could not be healed: How seldom does the waters of the Sanctuary heal miry souls? Augustine says of such, As the earth by too much rain becomes nothing but