The door of salvation opened by the key of regeneration

Thou mayst fear sin, and yet sin may be thy Favourite. The vengeance in sins tail may be frightful to thee, when the venom ⟨p. 103⟩in its body and nature is not at all distasteful to thee. Like the burnt child thou mayst dread the fire of sin, not because it sots and blacks thee, but because it scorches and burns thee.

Thou mayst fear sin, and yet sin may be thy Favorite. The vengeance in sins tail may be frightful to thee, when the venome ⟨p. 103⟩in its body and nature is not at all distasteful to thee. Like the burnt child thou mayst dread the fire of sin, not because it soots and blacks thee, but because it scorches and burns thee.

There is so much light left still in mans Understanding, which is called the candle of the Lord, that he cannot but see a God, and this God clothed with wrath and judgements against sin and sinners, and thence he (though unconverted) may sometime be full of fear and horror. Caligula used all the art he could, to blow out this light, and fortified himself with all the arguments he could get against a Deity, but could not accomplish his ends; for as often as it thundered, he was miserably affrighted, and would run under a bed. So we read that Felix an Heathen trembled when Paul reasoned of judgement to come, Act. 24.25. Sin in its doomsday dress, as 'tis clothed with fire and fury, may be terrible even to the ungodly. And the consideration of this, may make them leave many sins, that do not loath any sin. The Mariner throweth over-board those goods in a storm, which he wisheth for, and it may be gathereth up in a calm. As a man in a fever loveth drink, yea longeth much for it, yet dares not meddle with it, because 'twill make him worse; The sinners in Zion (saith the Prophet) are afraid, fearfulness hath taken hold on hypocrites; Why, what's the matter? Who can dwell in ⟨p. 104⟩