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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, Prov. 23. 32. Look not on the wine when it is red, when it shows its colour in the glass, afterwards it bites like a Serpent^*. So look not on the smiling pleasures of sin; be not delighted with its beauty, but affrighted with its sting^*? Do the damned in Hell feel any pleasure now in their sins? Hath their cup of wrath one drop of honey in it? Oh remember, after the golden Crowns, and women's hair, come the Lions teeth, Rev. 9. 8. Thus I have answered the first part of the Objection; I shall lose all my pleasures in sin.

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. Hony is sweet, but it turns to choler. Sin is a sweet poison^*, it delights the palate, but torments the bowels. When once the finner'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 horrour, and be ready to lay violent hands upon himself. We may say of the pleasures of sin, as Solomon of wine,