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Thus the wicked are described, Job xxi. 13. " They spend their days in " wealth, and in a moment go down to the graveThat is, their whole stock of time is spent in cares and labours to get wealth, and when they have gotten it, the rest UGG Boots Sale of their life is spent in those sensual pleasures that wealth brings in, or in making provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts of it. The rich man, m the parable, fared deliriously every day, Luke xvi. where his voluptuous life is described, UGG ana in UGGS that description, the occasion of his damnation is insinuated. In a pampered and indulged body, is usually found a neglected and starved soul. But how shall the ruin of souls this way be prevented ? The fifth way to hell shut up, by three considerations. Consider how the morality of Heathens had bridled their sen¬sual lusts and appetites, and caused them with a generous disdain to repel those brutish pleasures, as things below a man. " What more " foolish, what more base," saith Seneca , " than to patch up the " good of a reasonable soul out of things unreasonable ?" " That is " the pleasure worthy of a man, not to glut his body, nor to irri- " tate those lusts in whose quietness is our safety f" This is the constant doctrine of all the Stoicks. O what a shame is it to hear Heathenism out-brave Christianity! and principles of mere morality enable men to live more soberly, temperately and abstemiously, than those who enjoy the greatest pattern and highest motives in the Christian religion are found to do ? 6 Thou embracest pleasure, saith thfe Heathen, but I bridle it; 6 thou enjoyest it, I only use it; thou thinkest it thy chief good ; c I esteem it not so much as good; thou dost all for pleasure's sake, € but I nothing at all on that account.' These therefore shall be your judges. Always rememember sensual pleasures are but the baits with which Satan angles for the precious soul: there is a fatal hook under them.
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The Jifih way of losing the soul opened. The fifth way, by which an innumerable multitude of souls are eternally lost, is by the baits of sensual, sinful pleasures. Some customary sins have little, or no 'pleasure in them; as swearing, malice, but others allure, and entice the soul by the sensual delight that is in them: this is the bait with UGGS which, multitudes are enticed, ensnared, and ruined to all eternity. It is a true and grave observation of the philosopher " That we are " impelled, as it were, to that which is evil, by the alluring " blandishments of pleasure." This was the first bait by which Satan caught the souls of our first parents in innocency, Gen. iii. 6. " The tree was pleasant to the eye.'1 Pleasure quickens the principles of sin in us, and enflames the deires of the heart after it. Every pleasant sin hath a world of customers, and, cost what it will, they resolve to have it. I have read of a certain fruit, which the Spaniards found in the Indies, which was exceeding pleasant to the taste; but nature had so fenced it, and double- guarded it with sharp and dangerous thorns, that it was very difficult to come at it: they tore UGG Boots their clothes, yea, their flesh, to get it; and therefore called the fruit, Comfits in hell. Such are all the UGG pleasures of sin, consists in hell; damnation is the price of them, and yet the sensitive appetite is so outrageous and mad after- them, that at the price of their souls, they will have them.
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There must be an internal, as well as an external change upon thee; yea, a positive, as well as a negative change; a turning to the Lord, as well as a turning from sin; and then how long soever thou hast walked in the road towards hell, there will be time enough, and mercy enough to secure thy returning soul safe to heaven. Canst thou not forbear thy customary sin, upon lesser motives than the salvation of thy soul ? UGG Boots Sale And if thou canst, wilt thou not much more do it for the saving of thy precious, immortal soul ? Suppose there were but a pecuniary mulct, of an hundred pounds, to be certainly levied upon thy estate, for every oath thou swearest, or every time thou art drunk, wouldst thou not rather choose re-» formation than beggary ? And is not UGGS the loss of thy soul a penalty infinitely heavier than a little money ? But, as the wise Heathen observed, Ea sola end putamus, pro quibus pecuniam sobuinus; ed gratuita vocamus pro quibus nos ipsos impenctimus: We reckon those things only to be bought, whicn we part with money for; and that we have those things gratis, for which we pay ourselves. Is nothing cheap in our eyes but ourselves, our souls i do we call that gratis, UGG Boots that will cost us so dear ? Darius threw away his massy crown when he fled before Alexander, that it might not hinder him UGG in his flight. Sure your souls are more worth than your money, and all the enjoyments you have in this world. It had been an ancient custom among the citizens of Antioch, to wash themselves in the baths; but the king forbidding it, they all pre¬sently forbore, for fear of his displeasure: whereupon Chrysostora convinced them of the vanity of that plea for customary sinning. " You see, (saith he), how soon fear can break off an ola custom; " and shall not the fear of God be as powerful to over-master it " in us, as the fear of man ?" O friends, believe it, it " is better " for you to cut off a right hand, or pluck out a right eye, than " having two hands, or eyes to be cast into hell, where the worm " dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."
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How far soever a soul is gone on towards hell, none can say it is yet too late. When Mr. Bilney the martyr heard a minister preaching UGG Boots thus, 0 thou old sinner thou hast gone on in a course qf sin these fifty or sixty years; dost thou think that Christ will accept thee now, or take the deviVs leavings f Good God! said he, what preach¬ing of Christ is here! Had such doctrine been preached to me in my troubles, it had been enough utterly to have discouraged me from repentance and faith. No, no, sinner, it is not yet too late, if at last thy heart be touched with a real sense of thy sin and danger. The word is plain, Isa. lv. 7. " Let the wicked forsake his way, and the " unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the Lord, " and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will " abundantly pardon." An abundant pardon thou needest; UGGS thy sins, by long-continued custom and frequent repetitions, have been abundantly aggravated; and an abundant paraon is with God for poor sinners: he will abundantly pardon, but then thou must come up to his terms: thou must not expect pardon or mercy when thy sins have forsaken thee, but upon thy forsaking them; yea, such a forsaking as in¬cludes a resolution or decree in thy will to return to them no more, Hos. iv. 8. There must be a change of thy way, and that not from profaneness to civility only, which is but to change one false way to heaven for another, or the dirty road to hell for a cleanlier UGG path on the other side of the hedge; but a total and final forsaking of every way of sin, as to the love and habitual practice of it; yea, and thy thoughts too, as well as thy ways.
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By this means it becomes a second nature as it were, and strongly deter¬mines the mind to sin. A teneris assuescere raultum est, It is a great matter to be accustomed to this way, or that, said Seneca; yea, Caput rei est, hoc vel itto modo, hominem assuefieri,-It is the very head or root of the matter to be so or so accustomed, saith Aristotle. Very much of the strength of sin rises from customary sinning. A brand that hath been once in the fire easily catches the second time. Every repeated act of sin lesseneth fear and strength- eneth inclination. A horse that took an ill stroke at first breaking, and hath continued many years in it, is very difficultly, if ever, to be brought to a better way. What men have been accustomed to from their childhood, they are tenacious of in their old age. Hence it is that 6o few are converted to Christ in their old age. It was recorded for a wonder, in the primitive times, that Marcus Caius Victorius became a Christian in his old age. Time and usage fix the roots of sin deep in the soul. Old trees will not bow as tender plants do. Hence all essays and attempts to draw men from the course in which they have walked UGG Boots Sale from their youth, are UGGS frustrane- 6us and unsuccessful. The drunkard, the adulterer, yea, the self- righteous moralist, are by long continued usage so fixed in their course, and all this while conscience so stupified by often repeated acts of sin, that it is naturally as impossible to remove a mountain, as a sinners will thus confirmed in nis wickedness. However, let the trial be made, and the success left to him to whom no length of time nor difficulty must be objected or opposed. The fourth way to hell shut up by two considerations. Let it be considered, the longer any man hath been UGG Boots engaged in, and accustomed to the way of sin, the more reason and need that man hath speedily and without delay to repent and reform his course; there is yet a possibility of mecy, a season of salvation left.
