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4. There is no sin that is so directly opposite to holiness, and to the holy Spirit of God, as this: Nor any sin that makes us so like the Devil, who is often in the Evangelists called the unclean Spirit, Matth. 10. 1. and 12. 43. Both because he very much delighteth in uncleanness, and likewise maketh it his chief design to entice and draw men thereunto.

4. There is no sin that is so directly opposite to holiness, and to the holy Spirit of God, as this: Nor any sin that makes us so like the Devil, who is often in the Evangelists called the unclean Spirit, Matth. 10. 1. and 12. 43. Both because he very much delighteth in uncleanness, and likewise maketh it his chief design to intice and draw men thereunto.

III. The danger of this sin appeareth from the sad effects and consequents of it, some whereof are these,

1. It bringeth judgements on the body, destroying its health and strength, filling it with rottenness; it is the seminary of many incurable diseases. For the flame of Lust consumeth the Vital moisture, and the unnatural fire of burning Concupiscence extinguisheth the natural heat, which two are the Fountain of Life and Strength. An Incontinent person is the sink of all Corruption, a bag of Filth and Rottenness, and hath more diseases attending him, than an Hospital. For the righteous God hath appointed, that they who sow to the flesh, should of the flesh reap a plentiful Harvest of Corruption.