The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer

1. Sin is a body of death^*, and that not impertinently. First, It is ⟨p. 69⟩a body, for its weight. The body is an heavy and weighty substance: so is Sin a body, it weighs us down. When we should pray, the weights of Sin are tied to our feet that we cannot ascend. Anselm seeing a little Boy playing with a Bird, he let her fly up, and presently pulls the Bird down again by a string: So, saith he, it is with me, as with this Bird; when I would fly up to heaven upon the wings of meditation, I find a string tied to my leg; I am overpowered with corruption: but Death pulls off these weights of sin and lets the Soul free. Secondly, Sin is a body of death for its annoyance. It was a cruel torment that one ^*used, he tied a dead man to a living, that the dead man might annoy and infest the living. Thus it is with a child of God, he hath two men within him, Flesh and Spirit, Grace and Corruption▪ ⟨p. 70⟩here is the dead man tied to the living; a proud sinful heart is worse to a child of God, then the smell of a dead Corps. Indeed, to a natural man sin is not offensive, for being dead in sin, he is not sensible of the body of death: but where there is a vital principle, there is no greater annoyance then the body of Death: Insomuch that the pious soul oft cries out, as David, Woe is me, that I dwell in Mesek, and sojourn in the tents of Kedar^*. So saith he, Woe is me, that I am constrained to abide with sin. How long shall I be troubled with inmates? How long shall I offend that God whom I love? When shall I leave these Tents of Kedar?

1. Sin is a body of death^*, and that not impertinently. First, It is ⟨p. 69⟩a body, for its weight. The body is an heavy and weighty substance: so is Sin a body, it weighs us down. When we should pray, the weights of Sin are tied to our feet that we cannot ascend. Anselm seeing a little Boy playing with a Bird, he let her flie up, and presently pulls the Bird down againe by a string: So, saith he, it is with me, as with this Bird; when I would flie up to heaven upon the wings of meditation, I finde a string tied to my leg; I am overpowered with corruption: but Death pulls off these weights of sin and lets the Soul free. Secondly, Sin is a body of death for its annoyance. It was a cruel torment that one