The Doctrine of Repentance

13. Sin is a spiritual sickness: One man¹ is sick of pride, another of lust, another of malice: 'Tis with a sinner, as it is with a sick Patient, his palate is distempered; the sweetest things taste bitter to him: So the word of God which is sweeter than the honey-comb, tastes bitter to a sinner, Isa. 5. 20. They put sweet for bitter; and if sin be a disease, it is not to be cherished, but rather cured by Repentance.

13. Sin is a spiritual sickness: One man¹ is sick of pride, another of lust, another of malice: 'Tis with a sinner, as it is with a sick Patient, his pallat is distempered; the sweetest things taste bitter to him: So the word of God which is sweeter than the honey-comb, tastes bitter to a sinner, Isa. 5. 20. They put sweet for bitter; and if sin be a disease, it is not to be cherished, but rather cured by Repentance.

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14. Sin is a bondage; it binds a man¹ Apprentice to the Devil^*. Of all conditions, servitude is the worst. Every man is held with the cords of his own sin. I was held before conversion (saith Austin^*) not with an Iron Chain, but with the obstinacy of my will. Sin is imperious and tyrannical; it is called [Greek or Hebrew], a Law,