Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…

II. The worse you grow, and the further you proceed in sin, the more impudent you will be in the commission of it: The beginnings of sin are often done with blushings of face, but the progress in sin is void of all modesty; then you will be drunk and glory in it, then you will swear and not be ashamed of it, Jer. 6.15. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination: nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush—Pro. 7.13.

II. The worse you grow, and the further you proceed in sin, the more impudent you will be in the commission of it: The beginnings of sin are often done with blushings of face, but the progress in sin is voide of all modesty; then you will be drunk and glory in it, then you will swear and not be ashamed of it, Jer. 6.15. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination: nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush—Pro. 7.13.

III. The further thou proceedest in making progress in thy sin, the more it is to be feared thou wilt never return, but if thou shouldest, the more thou hast to sorrow for. It is but very rare that God bringeth those back that are come up to an height of sin; sometimes he doth, that none might despair; but very rarely, that none might presume. It is to be feared thou art forsaken of God, and he hath left thee to thy self, when ⟨p. 54⟩word, nor rod, can reclaim thee from thy sin, nor put a restraint upon thee from waxing worse.