A discourse of the saving grace of God

I, but if a man be visited with the Plague or Leprosy, he seems rather an object of compassion, than detestation; rather to be pitied than loathed. Go yet one step further.

Sin is not only contagious, but a loathsome noisome Filthiness. The Holy Ghost compares it to the stench of an open Sepulchre, to the Vomit of a Dog, to the corrupted matter of a putrefied Ulcer. Such is the temper of a Soul by sin.

Sin is not only contagious, but a loathsom noisom Filthiness. The Holy Ghost compares it to the stench of an open Sepulchre, to the Vomit of a Dog, to the corrupted matter of a putrified Ulcer. Such is the temper of a Soul by sin.

I'll go no further. It may be the hearing of these is offensive; how much more to see, smell, or touch them. Yet a sinful man is more ugly in the Eye, more offensive to the Nostrils, more loathsome to the Lord, than any of these can be to the quickest or most delicate of our Senses.

I'll go no further. It may be the hearing of these is offensive; how much more to see, smell, or touch them. Yet a sinful man is more ugly in the Eye, more offensive to the Nostrils, more loathsom to the Lord, than any of these can be to the quickest or most delicate of our Senses.