20. Sin without Repentance tends to1 final damnation. As the Rose perisheth by the canker bred in it self: so do men by the corruptions which breed in their souls. What was once said to the Graecians of the Trojan horse, this Engine is made to be the destruction of your City*. The same may be said to every impenitent person, this Engine of sin will be the destruction of thy soul. Sins last scene is always Tragical. Diagoras Florentinus would in a frolic drink poison, but it cost him his life*. Men drink the poison of sin in a merriment, but it costs them their souls, Rom. 6. 23. The wages of sin is death. What Solomon saith of wine, the same I may say of sin; at first it shows its colour in the cup, at the last it biteth like a Serpent, and stingeth like an Adder, Prov. 23. 31. Christ tells us of the worm *and the fire, Mark 9. 48. Sin is like oil, and Gods wrath is like fire. So long as the damned continue sinning, so long the ⟨p. 163⟩fire will continue scorching; and who can dwell with everlasting burnings? Isa. 33. 14. But men question the truth of this, and are like that impious Devonax, who being threatened with Hell for his villainies▪ made a mock at it, and said, I will believe there is an Hell when I come there, and not before*. We cannot make Hell enter into men, till they enter into Hell.
20. Sin without Repentance tends to1 final damnation. As the Rose perisheth by the canker bred in it self: so do men by the corruptions which breed in their souls. What was once said to the Graecians of the Trojan horse, this Engine is made to be the destruction of your City*. The same may be said to every impenitent person, this Engine of sin will be the destruction of thy soul. Sins last scene is alwaies Tragical. Diagoras Florentinus would in a frolick drink poison, but it cost him his life*. Men drink the poison of sin in a merriment, but it costs them their souls, Rom. 6. 23. The wages of sin is death. What Solomon saith of wine, the same I may say of sin; at first it shews its colour in the cup, at the last it biteth like a Serpent, and stingeth like an Adder, Prov. 23. 31. Christ tells us of the worm *and the fire, Mark 9. 48. Sin is like oyl, and Gods wrath is like fire. So long as the damned continue sinning, so long the ⟨p. 163⟩fire will continue scorching; and who can dwell with everlasting burnings? Isa. 33. 14. But men question the truth of this, and are like that impious Devonax, who being threatned with Hell for his villanies▪ made a mock at it, and said, I will believe there is an Hell when I come there, and not before*. We cannot make Hell enter into men, till they enter into Hell.
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- *Haec in vestros fabricata est machina muros. Virgil. Aeneid.
- *loco venenum bibit, seriò mortem obiit. Rein. Orat.•oco venenum bibit, seriò mortem obiit. Reyn. Orat.
- *Horreo vermem mordacem, & mortem vivacem. […] Flor.Horreo vermem mordacem, & mortem vivacem. 〈…〉 Flor.
- *Tun• crew dam cùm illuc venero.Tun• cre• dam cùm illuc venero.
