The Fountain of Life Opened

Corollary 5.

1. 1Cor. 5.

¹Wickedness, as well as holiness is not born in its full strength, but grows up to it by insensible degrees. So did the wickedness of Judas. I believe, he himself never thought he should have done what he did, and if any should have told him, in the first beginning of his profession; thou shalt sell thee blood of Christ for money. Thou shalt deliver him most perfidiously into their hands that seek his life; he would have answered as Hasael did to Elisha, But what is thy servant a Dog that he should do this great thing? 2 Kings 8.13. His wickedness first discovered it self in murmuring and discontent, taking a pique at some small matters against Christ, as you may find by comparing John 6. from the 60. to the 70. verse with John 12. from the 3. to the 9. verse, but see to what it grows at last. That Lust or Temptation that at first is but a little cloud, as big as a mans hand, may quickly overspread the whole heaven. It is in our engaging in sin, as in the motion of a stone down the hill. Vires acquirit eundo, it strengthens it self by going, and the longer it runs, the more violent. Beware of the smallest beginnings of temptations. No wise man will neglect or slight the smallest spark of fire, especially if he see it among many barrels of gunpowder. You carry gunpowder about you, O take heed of sparks.