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

1. Shame amongst men. Thou hadst an Inclination to wicked company, but thou wast ashamed to be seen amongst them; and therefore didst not associate with them. But now thou thinkest it no shame, or if thou dost, thou hast a face of brass, and an heart of stone, and blushest not. Thou art worse.

2. Care of Reputation. Thou wast tender of thy Credit, and good Name; and though thou hadst a love unto some sins, that would have disgraced thee amongst men, yet now thou wilt blot thy Name, and lose thy Credit, and sacrifice thy Reputation to satisfy thy Lust.

2. Care of Reputation. Thou wast tender of thy Credit, and good Name; and though thou hadst a love unto some sins, that would have disgraced thee amongst men, yet now thou wilt blot thy Name, and lose thy Credit, and sacrifice thy Reputation to satisfie thy Lust.

3. Costliness of sin. Some sins are very chargeable, and call for great expense; and thy love to thy Money, and natural affection to thy Wife and Children, was a bar which did restrain thee from them: Thou wouldest not feed and satisfy thy filthy Lusts, because it would be chargeable to thee; thou refrainedst from riotous Prodigals, because company with them would wast thine Estate: But now thou thinkest no cost too great, no charge too much, that thou mayest have thy fill of sin, but tradest, and labourest, and workest, to get something to maintain thy Lust, and wilt rather that thy Wife and Children should want bread at home, than thou shouldest not have enough to spend upon thy sins abroad. Thou art now grown to an exceeding magnitude in sin, that thou art monstrous to beholders.

3. Costliness of sin. Some sins are very chargeable, and call for great expence; and thy love to thy Money, and natural affection to thy Wife and Children, was a barre which did restrain thee from them: Thou wouldest not feed and satisfie thy filthy Lusts, because it would be chargeable to thee; thou refrainedst from riotous Prodigals, because company with them would wast thine Estate: But now thou thinkest no cost too great, no charge too much, that thou mayest have thy fill of sin, but tradest, and labourest, and workest, to get something to maintain thy Lust, and wilt rather that thy Wife and Children should want bread at home, than thou shouldest not have enough to spend upon thy sins abroad. Thou art now grown to an exceeding magnitude in sin, that thou art monstrous to beholders.