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Words of advice to young men delivered in two sermons at two conventions of…
Words of advice to young men delivered in two sermons at two conventions of young men, the one Decemb. 25, 1666, the other Decemb. 25, 1667 / by Thomas Vincent ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1668
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. VI.
2. Labour to overcome the Temptations of the Wicked one, whereby he would draw you to the commission of sin.
2. LAbour to overcome the Temptations of the Wicked one, whereby he would draw you to the commission of sin.
Sin in its own nature is so black and odious, that if your eyes were but opened to see what dishonour it reflecteth upon the pure and holy God, and how it defileth your own Souls once made after the image of God; you could not choose but loath and abhor it, and with hatred you would fly from it as from a Pestilential disease, or venomous Serpent, and no arguments would persuade you to commit it, or give it any room or harbour in your hearts; therefore the wicked one doth use the greatest art and cunning to paint and colour over sin with fair ⟨p. 76⟩glosses, that the monstrous nature and deadly poison of it might be hid from your eyes and knowledge.
Sin in its own nature is so black and odious, that if your eyes were but opened to see what dishonour it reflecteth upon the pure and holy God, and how it defileth your own Souls once made after the image of God; you could not choose but loath and abhorr it, and with hatred you would flye from it as from a Pestilential disease, or venemous Serpent, and no arguments would perswade you to commit it, or give it any room or harbour in your hearts; therefore the wicked one doth use the greatest art and cunning to paint and colour over sin with fair ⟨p. 76⟩glosses, that the monstrous nature and deadly poyson of it might be hid from your eyes and knowledge.