Come and welcome to Jesus Christ. Or, A plain and profitable discourse on John…

Well then, thy not liking of them, thy mourning for them, thy praying against them, & thy loathing thy self because of them, with thy sincere choosing of those Thoughts, for thy Delectation, that are Heavenly and Holy, clearly declares, that these things are not countenanced either with thy Will, Affections, Understanding, Judgement, or Conscience; and so, that thy Heart is not in them, but that rather they come immediately from the Devil, of arise from the ⟨p. 36⟩Body of Death that is in thy Flesh; of which thou oughtest thus to say, now then it's no more I that do it, but Sin that dwells in me Rom. 7.16, 17.

Well then, thy not liking of them, thy mourning for them, thy praying against them, & thy loathing thy self because of them, with thy sincere chusing of those Thoughts, for thy Delcetation, that are Heavenly and Holy, clearly declares, that these things are not countenanc'd either with thy Will, Affections, Understanding, Judgement, or Conscience; and so, that thy Heart is not in them, but that rather they come immediately from the Devil, of arise from the ⟨p. 36⟩Body of Death that is in thy Flesh; of which thou oughtest thus to say, now then it's no more I that do it, but Sin that dwells in me Rom. 7.16, 17.

I will give thee a pertinent Instance: I• Deut. 22. thou mayest read of a betrothed Damsel, one betrothed to her Beloved, one that ha• given him her Heart and Mouth, as thou has• given thy self to Christ; yet she was met with as she walked in the Field, by one that force her, because he was stronger than she. Well, what Judgment now doth God, the righteous Judge pass upon the Damsel for this? The Ma only that lay with her, saith God shall die; bu unto the Damsel thou shalt do nothing; the is in the Damsel no Sin worthy of Death. F as when a Man riseth against his Neighbour, […] slayeth him, even so is this matter; he foun her in the Field, & the betrothed Damsel crie and there was none to save her,