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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.