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

5. ¹Sin is of a craving and unsatiable nature, therefore those that would satisfy their Lusts, must needs in length of time be very bad. There are four things which are never satisfied, and never say, It is enough, Prov. 30.15, 16. and sin may make a fifth: For though a man drudge under sin all his days, yet it thinks the Sinner hath not done enough for it. The Horse-leech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give: such a thing is sin, that never leaves sucking the heart-blood of the Sinner, till it hath sucked him to death. Sin cannot cease to ask, and sinners know not how to deny; and they must be wicked indeed, that will be as wicked as sin can make them.

5. ¹Sin is of a craving and unsatiable nature, therefore those that would satisfie their Lusts, must needs in length of time be very bad. There are four things which are never satisfied, and never say, It is enough, Prov. 30.15, 16. and sin may make a fifth: For though a man drudge under sin all his dayes, yet it thinks the Sinner hath not done enough for it. The Horse-leech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give: such a thing is sin, that never leaves sucking the heart-blood of the Sinner, till it hath sucked him to death. Sin cannot cease to ask, and sinners know not how to deny; and they must be wicked indeed, that will be as wicked as sin can make them.

1. 1Sin is unsatiable.

I might run through the several kinds of sin, and show how they are never satisfied: The ⟨p. 21⟩Egyptians thought that the Israelites never made brick enough: and sin thinks the sinner never is enslaved enough, that he never doth obey enough; but I will briefly instance but in three.