5. If God yet pursues, and will see whether this promise of putting
sin out of doors shall he fulfilled by the soul, why then it will be
partial in God's law; it will put away some, and keep some; put away
the grossest, and keep the finest; put away those that can best be
spared, and keep the most profitable for a help at a pinch.
6. Yea, if all sin must be abandoned, or the soul shall have no
rest, why then the soul and sin will part--with such a parting as it
is--even as Phaltiel parted with David's wife, with an ill-will and
a sorrowful mind; or as Orpah left her mother, with a kiss. 2 Sam.
3:16; Ruth 1:14.
7. And if at any time they can or shall meet with each other again,
and nobody never the wiser, O what courting will be between sin and
the soul.
By all these, and many more things that might be instanced, it is
manifest that sin has a friendly entertainment by the soul, and that
therefore the soul is guilty of damnation; for what do all these
things argue, but that God, his word, his ways and graces, are out
of favor with the soul, and that sin and Satan are its only pleasant
companions?
SIN.
Sin so sets itself against the nature of God that, if possible, it
would annihilate and turn him into nothing, it being in its nature
point-blank against him.
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