How can it be, say they, that such a thing,
So full of sweetness, e'er should wear a sting?
They know not that it is the very spell
Of sin, to make men laugh themselves to hell.
Look to thyself, then, deal with sin no more,
Lest He that saves, against thee shut the door.
There are sins against light, sins against knowledge, sins against
love, sins against learning, sins against threatenings, sins against
promises and vows and resolutions, sins against experience, sins
against examples of anger, and sins that have great and high and
strange aggravations attending them; the which we are ignorant of,
though not altogether, yet in too great a measure.
Sins go not alone, hut follow one another as do the links of a
chain.
A presumptuous sin is such a one as is committed in the face of the
command, in a desperate venturing to run the hazard, or in a
presuming upon the mercy of God through Christ, to be saved
notwithstanding: this is a leading sin to that which is
unpardonable, and will be found with such professors as do hanker
after iniquity.
One leak will sink a ship; and one sin will destroy a sinner.
He that lives in sin and hopes for happiness hereafter, is like him
that soweth cockle and thinks to fill his barn with wheat and
barley.
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