The parable of the prodigal. Containing, The riotous prodigal, or The sinners aversion from…

But to open this in some particulars:

Quest. 1. To what extreme miseries and straits may sin bring the sinner? Sol. 1. To those of Body; sin may be rottenness of his bones, and may infect him with the most nasty, irking, painful diseases, ¹that he shall have no rest in his flesh: it may so poison his marrow, inflame his spirits, corrupt his humours, that many times the body, which was the instrument of sin, proves to be the great torment of the sinner. 2. To those of Estate; sinning may eat out a goodly estate, as the worm which is gnawing at the root of ²a tree, disrobes it, disflourishes it, pines and shrivels it: though a man hath quick parts, ample dealings, yet if he has secret ways ⟨p. 13⟩of sinning, his sins will blast him, they will be as the Moth which eats out the garment, or as the canker to the brass or iron. How many by such & such sinnings are quickly stripped, laid low, brought to a morsel of bread, and are clothed in rags, as the Prodigal here in the text wasted himself out of all. 3. To those of Name, ³which is one of the three precious and tender things; viz. a mans Eye, a mans Conscience, and a mans Name. This is a precious ⁴ointment, a mans life is as his name is, yet sinning casts a fly into that ointment, a blur upon that copy, it procures reproach and shame, an hissing, a Proverb, a by-word, an odious name, a name that shall perish. 4. To those of Conscience, which are ⁵straits indeed, so that a man is almost distracted, knows not which way to turn himself either to God or man, day nor night, is weary of life, and yet afraid to die; he fears God, he fears man, he fears himself, he fears the shadows of things. 5. To those of the imagining and thinking part of man; a mans heart shall do nothing