The Sincere Convert

Sixthly,¹ because of the strange strong power of sin, which bears that sway over mens souls, that they must serve it; as prisoners stoop to their Jailer; as soldiers that have taken their pay, their pleasure of sin, must follow it as their Captain, though they go marching on to eternal ruin:² nay though Dooms day should be to morrow, yet they must and will •erve their lusts. As the Sodomites when they were smitten with blindness, which tormented their eyes▪ as though they had been pricked with thorns, for so the Hebrew word signifies▪ even when destruction was near, they groped for the door. Men cannot but sin though they perish for sin; hence they remain secure.

Sixthly,¹ because of the strange strong power of sin, which beares that sway over mens soules, that they must serve it; as prisoners stoope to their Jaylor; as souldiers that have taken their pay, their pleasure of sinne, must follow it as their Captaine, though they goe marching on to eternall ruine:² nay though Doomes day should be to morrow, yet they must and will •erve their lusts. As the Sodomites when they were smitten with blindnesse, which tormented their eyes▪ as though they had beene pricked with thornes, for so the Hebrew word signifies▪ even when destruction was neare, they groped for the doore. Men cannot but sin though they perish for sinne; hence they remaine secure.

1. 1Reas. 6.
2. 2Rom. 1. ult.