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

Thirdly, It is a perpetual removal; we bury our friends so, that we would not have them taken up again and brought into our house: So you bury sin, never to have it brought back to live again in your heart. One that hath buried his sin doth earnestly desire it might be removed out of the sight of God, by free pardon; out of the sight of his own eyes, by the evidence of the pardon; and out of the sight of others, by leading a contrary Conversation.

4. The Burial of sin includes the rotting of the old man in its grave, the mouldering of it, and the daily wasting of it, as dead Corps buried in the earth do consume and wast daily. Though a body buried doth not presently totally consume: Many years after the burial, if the grave be opened, you may find the bones and the skull; the relics of sin in the heart of a Child of God, are but as the bones and the skull, but the body of sin is destroyed.

4. The Burial of sin includes the rotting of the old man in its grave, the mouldring of it, and the daily wasting of it, as dead Corps buried in the earth do consume and wast daily. Though a body buried doth not presently totally consume: Many years after the burial, if the grave be opened, you may find the bones and the skull; the reliques of sin in the heart of a Child of God, are but as the bones and the skull, but the body of sin is destroyed.

5. The Burial of sin includes, the loss of the power and authority that sin had in the heart while it was alive. Though a man were never so potent while he lived, yet when he is dead and buried, he hath no more power nor jurisdiction. Though thy sin did sit as a Lord, and rule in thy soul while it lived, yet being dead and buried, its dominion ceaseth.