A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

5 Propos. A regenerate man cannot have a settled, deliberate love to any one act of sin, though he may fall into it. Thus the Devil sins, he loves what he doth. Though a good man may fall into a sin, & even such a sin, which he was much guilty of before his Conversion and which he hath repented of, yet never into a love of it, or the allowance of any one act of it. For by Regeneration the Soul becomes like God in disposition, and therefore cannot love any thing which he hates, whose hatred and love being always just, are unerring Rules to the love and hatred of every one of his Children. He can never account a sin his ornament, but his fetter, never his delight, but his grief. I add this Proposition, because there may be a love of an act of sin, where there is not a constant course in it: As a man that hath committed a murder out of revenge, may love afterwards the very thoughts of that revenge, though he never murder any more: And a man that hath committed an act of Adultery, may review it with pleasure, though he never commit an act again. But a good man cannot. David is supposed to be inclined to the way of lying and dissembling; though he might falter sometimes, and look that way, and perhaps fall into it, yet never into a love of it; therefore observe, Psal. 119.163. I hate and abhor lying; but thy Law do I love. A single hatred would not serve the turn; but, I hate and abhor. I have not the least affection to this of any, though I have the greatest natural inclination to it. What was the reason? ⟨p. 96⟩Thy Law do I love. There was another affection planted in his Soul, which could not consist with a love to, or allowance either of the habit, or any one act of lying. A good man hath yielded his Soul up to the government of Christ, his affections are fully engaged; he cannot see an equal amiableness in any other Object, for he cannot lose his Eyes again; his enlightened mind cannot be wholly blinded and deceived by Satan; he walks not by the inveiglements of sense, but by the unerring Rule of Faith; so that though by some mists before his Eyes, he may for a while be deluded, yet as he cannot have a settled false Judgment, so he cannot have a settled affection to any one act of sin. 'Tis one thing for a City to surrender it self to the Enemy out of affection, and another thing to be forced by them:

5 Propos. A regenerate man cannot have a settled, deliberate love to any one act of sin, though he may fall into it. Thus the Devil sins, he loves what he doth. Though a good man may fall into a sin, & even such a sin, which he was much guilty of before his Conversion and which he hath repented of, yet never into a love of it, or the allowance of any one act of it. For by Regeneration the Soul becomes like God in disposition, and therefore cannot love any thing which he hates, whose hatred and love being always just, are unerring Rules to the love and hatred of every one of his Children. He can never account a sin his ornament, but his fetter, never his delight, but his grief. I add this Proposition, because there may be a love of an act of sin, where there is not a constant course in it: As a man that hath committed a murther out of revenge, may love afterwards the very thoughts of that revenge, though he never murther any more: And a man that hath committed an act of Adultery, may review it with pleasure, though he never commit an act again. But a good man cannot. David is supposed to be inclined to the way of lying and dissembling; though he might falter sometimes, and look that way, and perhaps fall into it, yet never into a love of it; therefore observe,