The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

2. From the Will it self: If that follow the Understanding in turning to God as its supreme End, and in embracing of Christ as the only way, then by necessary consequence it must needs follow the Understanding in the rejection of Sin as the great Obstacle; for if it follow not here also, it must wave its supreme End and the Way thither, it must resolve upon a Happiness without God and Christ. If the Understanding say to the Will, There is no other Cloud betwixt thee and the Father of Lights, no other distance betwixt thee and the Fountain of living Waters, none but Sin alone, surely the Will must bid it be gone for ever.

3. From the Understanding which so represents Sin, as that the Will doth turn away from it, and this it doth three ways.

1. The Understanding doth represent Sin as a grand evil; it sets it forth as an Ataxy in man, Rebellion against God, Spears and Nails to Jesus Christ, Quench-coal to the Spirit of Grace, Blur and Stain to the Soul, groaning Burden on the back of the whole Creation, Venom and perfect Quintessence of all evils, a thing of such monstrous ⟨p. 467⟩deformities, as if it did appear in its own prodigious shape, would not be touched upon by Man, and how can the Will being a rational Appetite dote upon such a thing? Surely upon it as such it cannot; wherefore Sin (that it may be welcome to the Will) covers it self with Fig-leaves as Adam, it veils its face like Tamar, it paints and tires like Jezebel, it disguises and feigns it self to be another like Jeroboam's Wife, it courts and flatters to steal away hearts like Absalom, it comes like Agrippa and Bernice with great pomp in fancy of some apparent goodness; offering it self to our Saviour it wrapped up it self in all the glories of the World, nay, in the Mantle of Scripture and Angelical protection; coming to Adam, it held forth an Apple, and promised no less than a God-head; ever it hath a lye and a cheat in it. Hence it is called a false way,