The truly blessed man

4. Let it embitter sin to you after the commission of •t. It is none of the least infelicities of ungodly men, and that which tends to harden them in sin […] destruction, that they not only sport themselves […] sin, whiles they are committing of it, but take ⟨p. 534⟩a great deal of sinful pleasure in ruminating on it afterwards: wi•h what pleasancy do they think, how delightfully do they talk of their merry bouts▪ but I can tell you a more profitable recollection or r•v•ew of these things, though it be more troublesome for the present, yet let me advise you to it, and that is s•t Conscience to work, and think, I have been dishonouring God, provoking him by my le•d carriages, and daring of him to fall upon me in his wrath; I have been carrying Wood to my Pile of vengeance, and laying up sorrows for my self: Let Conscience solemnly enquire, What have I done? And •e•ch in the Word of God, & that will tell you a fearful story: how might this tend to your deliverance?

4. Let it embitter sin to you after the commission of •t. It is none of the least infelicities of ungodly men, and that which tends to harden them in sin 〈…〉 destruction, that they not only sport themselves 〈…〉 sin, whiles they are committing of it, but take ⟨p. 534⟩a g•eat deal of sinful pleasure in ruminating on it afterwards: wi•h what pleasancy do they think, how d•lightfully do they talk of their merry bouts▪ but I can tell you a more profiable recollection or rvew of these things, though it be more troublesome for the present, yet let me advise you to it, and that is st Conscience to work, and think, I have been dishonouring God, provoking him by my led carriages, and daring of him to fall upon me in his wrath; I have been carrying Wood to my Pile of vegance, and laying up sorrows for my self: Let Conscience solmnly enquire, What have I done? And ech in the Word of God, & that will tell you a fearful story: how might this tend to your deliveance?