An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

Fifthly, Drinking is a frequent act; a temperate man drinks every day, and often every day; healthy men eat often, and most men drink oftener then they eat: So that to drink iniquity hints also the frequency of committing iniquity.

Fifthly, Drinking is a frequent act; a temperate man drinkes every day, and often every day; healthy men eate often, and most men drink oftner then they eate: So that to drinke iniquity hints also the frequency of committing iniquity.

Hence Observe:

A carnal heart sins often: He sins, and sins, he cannot but sin,¹ it is a continual, yea a continued act; he hath never done, he is like the Drunkard that must always be tippling. Or like the covetous man, who is always having, and the more he hath the more he desires to have: Covetousness is a dry drunkenness, and drunkenness is a wet covetousness: both return often upon the same acts; and so doth every sinner naturally. He cannot cease from sin, as the Apostle Peter speaks, Every imagination ⟨p. 73⟩of the thoughts of his heart is only evil, and that continually. The cup of iniquity is never from his mouth.

A carnall heart sins often: He sins, and sins, hee cannot but sin,¹ it is a continuall, yea a continued act; he hath never done, he is like the Drunkard that must alwayes be tipling. Or like the covetous man, who is alwaies having, and the more he hath the more he desires to have: Covetousnesse is a dry drunkennesse, and drunkennesse is a wet covetousnesse: both returne often upon the same acts; and so doth every sinner naturally. He cannot cease from sin, as the Apostle Peter speakes, Every imagination