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3. These sugared pleasures in sin the Scripture saith are but [Greek or Hebrew], for a season, Heb. 11. 25. Like fire in straw which makes a blaze, but is presently out, 1 Joh. 2. 17. The world passeth away, and the lusts thereof. It passeth away swiftly as a ship under sail. Worldly pleasures perish in the using; like a flying shadow, or flash of lightning; and are these to be preferred before an eternal weight of glory?

3. These sugred pleasures in sin the Scripture saith are but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, for a season, Heb. 11. 25. Like fire in straw which makes a blaze, but is presently out, 1 Joh. 2. 17. The world passeth away, and the lusts thereof. It passeth away swiftly as a ship under sail. Worldly pleasures perish in the using; like a flying shadow, or flash of lightning; and are these to be preferred before an eternal weight of glory?

4. The present sweetness which is in fin will turn to bitterness at last, Like ⟨p. 128⟩the Book the Prophet eat, Ezek. 3. 3. Sweet in the mouth, but bitter in the belly. Honey is sweet, but it turns to choler. Sin is a sweet poison^*, it delights the palate, but torments the bowels. When once the sinner's eyes come to be opened at death, and he feels some sparks of God's wrath in his conscience, then he will cry out for horror, and be ready to lay violent hands upon himself. We may say of the pleasures of sin, as Solomon of wine,