Solemn advice to young men, not to walk in the ways of their heart,…Solemn advice to young men, not to walk in the wayes of their heart,…

Proposition. III

Sin will at last appear to be hateful unto Sinners themselves. Though now they see not the evil that is in sin, they shall see it ⟨p. 85⟩one day; sooner or later they will have enough of sin: They will rue the day that ever they were guilty of such and such sins. This will most certainly come to pass. Either,

Sin will at last appear to be hatefull unto Sinners themselves. Though now they see not the evil that is in sin, they shall see it ⟨p. 85⟩one day; sooner or later they will have enough of sin: They will rue the day that ever they were guilty of such and such sins. This will most certainly come to pass. Either,

1. By their being brought unto true Repentance for their sins. For then sin becomes exceeding bitter to the Soul. The Jews took pleasure in Crucifying Christ; but when Peters Sermon had pricked them to the heart, they mourned for him as one mourns for an only Son, and were in bitterness for him as one in bitterness for his first born. Zach. 12. 10. When a man repents truly, his sorrow for sin is much greater, then was the pleasure he had in Committing of it. David found it so, this we see in his penitential Psalms, where we hear him saying, Neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin: for mine iniquities are gone over my head, as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me, Psal. 38. 3, 4. And in another place, he speaks of his roaring all the day long: And again, he complains of his broken bones: He could not have been in more bitter anguish if all his bones had been broken, then he was in, after his grievous fall in that matter of Uriah and Bathsheba. And when Solomon was brought