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…

Hence the Apostle (Rom. 6.21.) puts the question to those who were once the servants of sin, What fruit had ye then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? He asketh them, and bids them ask their own hearts, what fruit had you? as if he had said, I know when you were servants of sin, your sins promised you great matters, great rewards: the Tree of sin seems to be loaded with fruits, the bows of it look as if ready to break with goodly fruits; fruit pleasant to the eye, sweet to the taste, and desirable to make one wise; but I beseech yon tell me what fruit had you in those things wh reof you are now ashamed? If you be ashamed to tell me; I will tell you, The end of those things is death; that's all the fruit which the Tree of sin bears. Sin deals with us, as Jael with Sisera (Judges 4.18.) She stood at the Tent door, when he came panting from the Battle, and said to him, Turn in my Lord, turn in; she took him into her Tent, and laid him down, covered him warm, and when he asked her for Milk, she gave him Butter, Butter in a Lordly dish; here were fine words, and seeming promises: yet she honestly deceived him, She put her hand to the Nail, and her hand to the workmans Hammer, and nailed his temples to the ground. Thus sin bids us turn in, promises to cover us warm, gives us Butter in a Lordly dish, but never tells us of that woeful end, and wretched catastrophe which it intends unto us: Sin deals with us as Delilah with Sampson, takes us into its bosom and embraces; but then it hath a plot to cut the lock of our strength, to deliver us over to the Philistines, to call in Legions of Devils to seize upon us, and make us grind at the Mill of their basest drudgery.

Hence the Apostle (Rom. 6.21.) puts the question to those who were once the servants of sin, What fruit had yee then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? He asketh them, and bids them aske their owne hearts, what fruit had you? as if he had sayd, I know when you were servants of sin, your sins promised you great matters, great rewards: the Tree of sin seemes to be loaded with fruits, the bowes of it looke as if ready to break with goodly fruits; fruit pleasant to the eye, sweet to the taste, and desireable to make one wise; but I beseech yon tell me what fruit had you in those things wh reof you are now ashamed? If you be ashamed to tell me; I will tell you, The end of those things is death; that's all the fruit which the Tree of sin beares. Sin deales with us, as Jaell with Sisera (