O that every presumptuous sinner who thus sells himself to do wickedly, would seriously consider those sad encumbrances that go along with this his purchase. Those who would have estates to continue in such or such a succession as themselves had preintended, have sometimes charged curses and execrations upon those who should alienate, or go about to alter the property and condition of them. These many times are causeless curses, and do not ⟨p. 79⟩come: But if any man will needs make bargains with Satan, and be buying of the pleasures of sin, he must know that there goes a curse from heaven along with such a purchase, which will make it at the last but a [Greek or Hebrew], a sweet Bitter, like Johns Roll which was sweet in the mouth, but bitter in the belly; like Claudius his mushroom pleasant, but apoison, that will blast all the pleasures of sin, and turn all the wages of iniquity in bAurum tholosanum, into such gold as ever brought destruction to the owners of it. It is said of Cm Seius, that he had a goodly horse which had all the perfections that could be named for stature, feature, colour, strength, limbs, comeliness belonging to a horse, but withal this misery ever went along with him, that whosoever became owner of him was sure to die an unhappy death. This is the misery that always accompanies the bargain of sin, How pleasant, how profitable, how advantageous soever it may seem to be unto flesh and blood, it hath always calamity in the end, it ever expires in a miserable death Honey is very sweet, but it turns into the bitterest choler. The valley of Sodom was one of the most delightful places in the world, but is now become a dead and a standing lake. Let the life of a wicked man run on never so fluently, it hath a mare mortuum at the dead end of it. O then, when thou art making a Covenant with sin, say to thy soul as Boaz said to his kinsman Ruth, 4.•, 5. At what time thou buyest it, thou must have Ruth the Moabitesse with it. If thou wilt have the pleasure•, the rewards, the wages of iniquity, thou must also have the curse and damnation that is ⟨p. 80⟩entailed upon it; and let thy soul answer which he there doth, No, I may not do it, I shall mar and spoil a better Inheritance.
O that every presumptuous sinner who thus sels himself to do wickedly, would s•riously consider those sad encumbrances that go along with this his purchace. Those who would have estates to continue in such or such a succession as themselves had preintended, have sometimes charged curses and execrations upon those who should alienate, or go about to alter the property and condition of them. These many times are causlesse curses, and do not ⟨p. 79⟩come: But if any man will needs make bargains with Satan, and be buying of the pleasures of sin, he must know that there goes a curse from heaven along with such a purchase, which will make it at the last but a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a sweet Bitter, like Iohns Roll which was sweet in the mouth, but bitter in the belly; like Claudius his mushrome pleasant, but apoison, that will blast all the pleasures of sin, and turn all the wages of iniquity in bAurum tholosanum, into such gold as ever brought destruction to the owners of it. It is said of Cm Seius, that he had a goodly horse which had all the perfections that could be named for stature, feature, colour, strength, limmes, comelinesse belonging to a horse, but withall this miserie ever went along with him, that whosoever became owner of him was sure to die an unhappy death. This is the misery that alwayes accompanies the bargain of sin, How pleasant, how profitable, how advantageous soever it may seem to be unto flesh and blood, it hath alwayes calamity in the end, it ever expires in a miserable death Honey is very sweet, but it turns into the bitterest choler. The valley of Sodom was one of the most delightfull places in the world, but is now become a dead and a standing lake. Let the life of a wicked man run on never so fluently, it hath a mare mortuum at the dead end of it. O then, when thou art making a Covenant with sin, say to thy soul as Boaz said to his kinsman Ruth, 4.•, 5. At what time thou buyest it, thou must have Ruth the Moabitesse with it. If thou wilt have the pleasure•, the rewards, the wages of iniquitie, thou must also have the curse and damnation that is ⟨p. 80⟩entaild upon it; and let thy soul answer which he there doth, No, I may not do it, I shall marre and spoil a better Inheritance.
- aNemo venenum temperate selle & elleboro, sed conditis pulmentis, & b•ne sa•oratis, & plurimum •ulcibus id mali inj•cit. Tertul. de specta. c. 27. Insusum del• ctabili cib• bol•torum v•n• num. Tacit. Annal. li. 12.Nemo venenum temperat selle & elleboro, sed conditis pulmentis, & b•ne sa•oratis, & plurimum •ulcibus id mali inj•cit. Tertul. de specta. c. 27. Insusum del• ctabili cib• bol•torum v•n• num. Tacit. Annal. li. 12.
- bVid. A Gel. lib. 3. ca. 9. Omni• •ll• se• sorti•, seu honesta, seu sonora, seu canora, seu subtilia pro•nde habe ac si still cidia mellis de ••batu••u•o ventuato, nec •anti gulam sacias voluptatis quanti peritu•um. Tertul. Ibid.Vid. A Gell. lib. 3. ca. 9. Omni• •ll• se• sorti, seu honesta, seu sonora, seu canora, seu subtilia pronde habe ac si still cidia mellis de batuuo ventuato, nec anti gulam sacias voluptatis quanti perituum. Tertul. Ibid.
