The Sincere Convert

Thirdly, by giving the soul good diet, meat and drink enough, what dish he likes best. Let a Master give liberty, yet his servant is not pleased, unless he hath meat and drink and food: so there's no wicked man under Heaven, but as he takes too much liberty in the use of lawful things, so he feedeth his heart with some unlawful secret lust, though all the time they live in it, it may be, it is unknown to them, Luk. 16. Dives had his dish, his good things, and so sang himself a sleep, and bad his soul take his ease and rest: yea observe, this diet is poisoned in it self, but ever commended to the soul as wholesome, good, and lawful. They christen sin with a new name, as Popes are at their election; if he be bad, they call him sometimes Pius, if a coward, Leo, &c. So covetousness is good husbandry; company keeping, good neighbourhood; lying, to save their credit from cracking, but a handsome excuse: and hence the soul goes peaceably on, and believes he is in a good estate.

Thirdly, by giving the soule good dyet, meate and drinke enough, what dish he likes best. Let a Master give liberty, yet his servant is not pleased, unlesse he hath meate and drinke and food: so there's no wicked man under Heaven, but as he takes too much liberty in the use of lawfull things, so he feedeth his heart with some unlawfull secret lust, though all the time they live in it, it may be, it is unknown to them, Luk. 16. Dives had his dish, his good things, and so sang himselfe a sleepe, and bad his soule take his ease and rest: yea observe, this dyet is poysoned in it selfe, but ever commended to the soule as wholsome, good, and lawfull. They christen sinne with a new name, as Popes are at their election; if he be bad, they call him sometimes Pius, if a coward, Leo, &c. So covetousnesse is good husbandry; company keeping, good neighbourhood; lying, to save their credit from cracking, but a handsome excuse: and hence the soule goes peaceably on, and beleeves he is in a good estate.