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Secondly,¹ Others are advanced farther, and not only sin openly, but they boast and glory in their sins also; the Apostle in Philippians 3.19. speaks of them, whose glory was in their shame; they boast as if they had done some notable exploit, when alas they have only murdered a poor Soul of their own, that lay drawing on towards its death before.

Secondly,¹ Others are advanced farther, and not only sin openly, but they boast and glory in their sins also; the Apostle in Philippians 3.19. speaks of them, whose glory was in their shame; they boast as if they had done some notable exploit, when alas they have only murthered a poor Soul of their own, that lay drawing on towards its death before.

1. 1A boasting and glorying in sins when committed.

Thirdly,¹ There are others so shameless, that they boast of those very wickednesses that they never darst to commit. As cowards brag of their exploits in such and such a combat, which yet they never darst engage in; so there are a generation in the World, who dare not for ⟨p. 202⟩the terror of their consciences commit a sin, that yet will boast that they have committed it, as if it were a generous and honourable thing to be called and accounted a daring Sinner; shall I call these Men, or Monsters rather, that boast of such things as make them more like Devils than Men; and yet even to this height of profligate impudence will presumptuous sins lead you; but let all such know, God is resolved to try the foreheads of these Men at the last and great day of Judgment, and in despite of all their swaggering and boldness, shame and everlasting confusion shall cover their Faces as impudent as they are now.