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2. The Scripture calls sin a disease, Isa. 1. 5. The whole head is sick. Is it any pleasure to be sick? Though all do not feel this sickness, yet the less the distemper is felt, the moremorta.

3. The Scripture compares sin to Gall and Wormwood, Deut. 29. 18. It breeds a bitter worm in the conscience. What a worm did Spira feel? Sin stings a man with wrath, Joh. 3. 34. And do you call this a pleasure? sure you put bitter for sweet, Isa. 5. 20.

The pleasures of sin do gratify only ¹the sensitive part of man, not the rational. Pleasures are called carnal, because they delight only the body. How absurd was that speech of the rich man ⟨p. 127⟩in the Gospel, when he was speaking of his store of goods, and his barns being full, Soul, take thine ease, Luke 12. 19. He might have said more properly, Body take thine ease; for his soul was never the better for his riches, nor could it feel any delight in them. Though his barns were full, his soul was empty. Therefore when Satan tells thee, If thou usest violence for Heaven, thou wilt lose all thy pleasures: ask him, what pleasures are they Satan? such as please only the senses, they do not delight the mind; they do not comfort the conscience; they are such delights wherein the brute creatures do exceed me.