A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

Ans. It may grow stronger in our feeling, when it is not so in it self, it is not because Sin is stronger, but our sense is more quick, a man that is in extremity of Sickness, he feels no pain, but when be begins to recover, he feels more pain, why then the Disease is not stronger, but he is more sensible.

Ans. It may grow stronger in our feeling, when it is not so in it self, it is not because Sin is stronger, but our sense is more quick, a man that is in extemity of Sicknesse, he feels no pain, but when be begins to recover, he feels more pain, why then the Disease is not stronger, but he is more sensible.

2. Do you not find that Sin is more loathsome and bitter to you? then it is in some measure mortified, for mortifying is a borrowed speech from a Surgeons mortifying a Wound: they use to bind the joint, and stop all spirit and blood, so that it is made insensible of pain; so if we have stopped the freeness of our spirits to Sin, we are not so lively and frolic to Sin, it is a sign corruption is mortified, but if you see you are as lively, and ready, and delight as much in Sin as before, Sin is not mortified, but if it grow loathsome and bitter to us, it is a sign of mortification.

2. Doe you not find that Sin is more loathsome and bitter to you? then it is in some measure mortified, for mortifying is a borrowed specch from a Surgions mortifying a Wound: they use to binde the joynt, and stop all spirit and bloud, so that it is made insensible of pain; so if we have stopt the freenesse of our spirits to Sin, we are not so lively and frolick to Sin, it is a signe corruption is mortified, but if you see you are as lively, and ready, and delight as much in Sin as before, Sin is not mortified, but if it grow loathsome and bitter to us, it is a signe of mortification.