A Body of Practical Divinity

7. Sin is a painful thing; it costs Men much labour in pursuing their sins. How do Men tyre themselves in doing the Devil's drudgery, Jer. 9.5. They weary themselves to commit iniquity. Peccatum est sui ipsius poena. What pains did Judas take to bring about his Treason? He goes to the High-Priest, and then after to the Band of Soldiers, and then back again to the Garden. St. Chrysostom saith, Virtue is easier than Vice. 'Tis more pains to some to follow their sins, than to others to worship their God. While the sinner travails with his sin, in sorrow he brings forth; it is called serving divers Lusts, Tit. 3.3. not enjoy, but serve: why so, because not only of the slavery in sin, but the hard labour; it is serving divers Lusts. Many a Man goes to Hell in the sweat of his brows.

7. Sin is a painful thing; it costs Men much labour in pursuing their sins. How do Men tyre themselves in doing the Devil's drudgery, Ier. 9.5. They weary themselves to commit iniquity. Peccatum est sui ipsius poena. What pains did Iudas take to bring about his Treason? He goes to the High-Priest, and then after to the Band of Soldiers, and then back again to the Garden. St. Chrysostom saith, Vertue is easier than Vice. 'Tis more pains to some to follow their sins, than to others to worship their God. While the sinner travails with his sin, in sorrow he brings forth; it is called serving divers Lusts, Tit. 3.3. not enjoy, but serve: why so, because not only of the slavery in sin, but the hard labour; it is serving divers Lusts. Many a Man goes to Hell in the sweat of his brows.

8. Sin is the only thing God hath an antipathy against: God doth not hate a Man because he is poor, or despised in the World; you do not hate your Friend because he is sick; but that which draws forth the keens of God's hatred, is sin,