Words of advice to young men delivered in two sermons at two conventions of…

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.

And as God hath his methods in the conversion of young ones, and useth many arguments by his Ministers and Spirit, to persuade them unto the practice of Religion: So Satan hath his methods and arguments to draw away young ones from God unto the commission of sin, and continuance therein.

And as God hath his methods in the conversion of young ones, and useth many arguments by his Ministers and Spirit, to perswade them unto the practice of Religion: So Satan hath his methods and arguments to draw away young ones from God unto the commission of sin, and continuance therein.