of the law. Yet if the principles from which he acts be but the
habit of soul, the purity, as he feigns, of his own
nature--principles of natural reason, or the dictates of human
nature; all this is nothing else but the old gentleman in his
holiday clothes: the old heart, the old spirit, the spirit of the
man, not the spirit of Christ, is here.

LOVE OF SIN.

Sin has been delightfully admitted to an entertainment by all the
powers of the soul. The soul hath chosen it rather than God; and
also, at God's command, refuses to let it go.

If there be at any time, as indeed there is, a warrant issued out
from the mouth of God to apprehend, to condemn and mortify sin, why
then the souls of sinners do presently make these shifts for the
saving of sin from things that by the word men arc commanded to do
unto it:

1. They will, if possible, hide it, and not suffer it to be
discovered.

2. As the soul will hide it, so it will excuse it, and plead that
this and that piece of wickedness is no such evil thing, men need
not be so nice.

3. As the soul will do this, so to save sin it will cover it with
names of virtue, either moral or civil.

4. If convictions and discovery of sin be so strong and so plain