First
,
of
the
strength
and
force
of
the
poison
of
sinne
.
TO
bee
plaine
in
words
,
certaine
in
sence
,
and
short
in
writing
,
I
will
briefly
describe
the
strength
of
the
poison
of
sin
.
It
is
a
spirituall
poison
,
The
breach
of
Gods
Law
,
1
Ioh.
3.4
.
The
which
whosoeuer
committeth
is
of
the
Diuell
,
1
Iohn
3.8
.
Yea
,
it
is
the
vile
,
and
most
damnable
thing
in
the
world
.
The
onely
Noli
me
tangere
,
which
no
man
without
the
displeasure
of
Almighty
GOD
,
could
euer
taste
,
or
touch
in
the
least
degree
.
For
,
Via
peccati
ingredientes
contaminat
,
progredientes
obstinat
,
egredientes
exterminat
.
Sinne
in
the
first
entrance
defileth
,
in
the
progresse
hardeneth
,
and
at
his
going
out
destroyeth
.
It
causeth
all
those
that
commit
it
to
dishonour
God
,
to
crucifie
Christ
a
fresh
,
and
to
greeue
the
Holy
Ghost
:
It
makes
the
Angels
to
moure
,
and
all
Gods
creatures
to
groone
and
sigh
vnder
the
burthen
of
it
,
Rom.
8.22
.
It
is
the
very
excrement
of
the
Diuell
,
that
old
Serpent
;
the
age
of
it
is
almost
as
old
as
the
worlde
:
for
scarce
was
there
a
world
,
but
it
was
a
prisoned
worlde
with
sinne
;
and
almost
no
sooner
was
there
a
man
,
but
hée
was
infected
with
this
poison
.
And
so
strong
was
this
poison
,
euen
at
the
first
committing
of
sinne
,
that
it
made
all
the
worlde
mourne
for
her
mallidy
,
the
which
neither
Ghiron
,
Esculapius
,
nor
Apollo
could
euer
heale
:
No
,
if
all
the
Angels
and
men
both
of
heauen
and
earth
were
in
one
,
they
could
neuer
heale
it
.
Our
poysoned
soules
could
not
bee
cured
without
a
Mithradate
confection
of
the
best
bloude
that
euer
was
in
the
worlde
,
euen
the
most
pretious
bloud
of
Christ
Iesus
,
the
onely
begotten
Sonne
of
God
.
So
this
spirituall
poyson
can
bee
nowayes
cured
,
but
by
a
spirituall
antidote
;
this
most
deadly
poyson
must
haue
the
most
soueraine
antidote
;
onely
here
is
the
difference
,
that
as
hel
giueth
the
poyson
,
so
heauen
giues
the
helps
.
There
is
no
sinne
so
small
,
that
hath
not
cost
the
Sonne
of
God
euen
a
sea
of
sorrowes
.
O
what
a
hell
(
thinke
wee
)
was
Iesus
Christ
in
for
our
sinnes
,
when
hee
swet
both
water
and
bloud
,
and
prayed
thrice
most
feruently
to
haue
that
bitter
cup
pase
from
him
?
Yea
hee
brake
out
into
this
sundring
voice
,
and
cried
to
God
his
Father
.
Quare
dereliquisti
me
?
Why
hath
thou
forsaken
me
?
Whose
bloudy
sweat
came
trickling
downe
to
the
ground
Luke
22.44
.
In
the
which
(
no
doubt
)
he
felt
the
force
and
strength
of
sinne
,
the
wrath
of
God
against
it
,
the
Iustice
of
God
requiring
punishment
for
it
,
the
power
of
the
Law
pronouncing
condemnation
to
it
;
the
force
of
death
,
the
tyrannie
of
Satan
,
and
the
torment
of
hell
,
which
was
forcible
enough
to
haue
drawne
streames
of
teares
out
of
the
driest
eye
that
euer
was
in
the
head
of
man
,
and
to
haue
excited
a
multitude
of
sorrowfull
groanes
out
of
the
hardest
heart
that
euer
GOD
made
.
Oh
,
was
the
strength
of
sinne
so
great
,
that
it
caused
Christ
to
shed
dropps
of
blood
for
our
sinnes
,
and
cannot
we
shed
forth
one
teare
for
the
same
?
Oh
,
I
beseech
you
,
let
the
horror
of
it
be
alwayes
fresh
in
our
memorie
,
and
the
meditation
thereof
imprinted
in
our
hearts
,
that
wee
may
remember
those
grieuous
dropps
of
that
most
precious
blood
,
which
Iesus
Christ
shedde
for
our
sakes
,
for
our
sinnes
,
for
our
soules
,
and
for
our
saluation
.
Let
vs
loue
him
for
it
,
thanke
him
for
it
,
and
serue
him
for
it
,
all
the
dayes
of
our
liues
.
So
that
our
hands
may
tremble
and
shake
for
feare
,
and
our
whole
body
may
quake
with
terror
of
it
,
when
any
euill
imagination
is
hatched
in
our
hearts
,
or
any
wicked
deede
should
be
acted
with
our
hands
,
that
we
may
be
euer
terrified
from
nourishing
sinne
in
our
bosome
,
whose
condition
is
so
vile
and
base
.
For
such
is
the
nature
of
sinne
,
enter
where
it
will
,
it
is
the
heart
it
aimes
at
,
and
it
will
not
stay
vntill
it
comes
there
:
because
sinne
and
Sathan
loue
no
venison
but
the
heart
,
no
fowle
but
the
breast
,
and
no
fish
but
the
soule
.
The
heart
is
the
throne
where
sinne
would
raigne
,
and
the
soule
it selfe
is
the
seate
where
sinne
would
sit
.
And
therefore
,
the
more
sinne
labours
to
poyson
that
part
,
the
more
should
wee
striue
to
preserue
it
.
If
our
heart
bee
Gods
throne
then
is
hee
a
most
vile
traytor
to
God
and
himselfe
,
that
suffers
sin
,
Gods
great
enemy
,
that
proud
,
presumptuous
,
aspiring
Tyrant
,
to
sit
in
the
seat
,
and
tyrannize
in
the
throne
of
the
Soueraigne
Maiestie
of
Almighty
God
.
Thus
wee
may
see
,
that
the
very
subiect
and
seat
of
sinne
is
the
heart
and
soule
of
man
,
that
most
glorious
and
pretious
part
,
which
God
made
like
to
himselfe
,
and
for
the
which
the
Sonne
of
God
was
crucified
.
And
as
sinne
delights
to
sit
and
captiue
both
the
heart
and
soule
of
man
,
so
the
longer
it
raignes
there
the
worse
it
is
;
for
as
in
good
things
the
elder
the
better
;
so
in
the
euill
of
sinne
,
the
elder
the
worse
,
and
the
more
they
will
grow
in
number
.
Aske
one
of
the
holiest
men
,
hee
that
had
fewest
sinnes
;
They
are
more
in
number
(
saith
hee
)
than
the
haires
of
my
head
.
Oh
who
can
vnderstand
his
errours
?
Psalme
40.12
.
Psal.
19.12
.
Or
who
can
tell
how
oft
he
offendeth
?
Yea
,
sinne
is
growne
so
foule
,
so
great
,
and
is
so
scattered
abroad
into
so
many
mens
hearts
,
that
S.
Iohn
saith
,
Totus
mundus
in
maligno
positus
est
:
The
whole
world
lyeth
plungeth
in
wickednesse
.
Now
to
speake
more
of
the
euill
of
sin
,
it
appeareth
in
thrée
things
;
First
in
the
deformity
.
For
God
doth
loath
it
.
Secondly
,
in
the
iniquity
,
For
the
Diuell
doth
loue
it
.
Thirdly
,
in
the
generall
contagious
poyson
and
leprosie
thereof
:
(
as
S.
Iohn
saith
)
the
whole
world
is
infected
therewith
.
Secondly
,
how
mans
soule
became
infected
therewith
.
At
the
beginning
,
God
suruaying
his
workes
with
the
eyes
of
his
wisedome
,
after
they
had
passed
the
hand
of
his
power
,
his
Iustice
pronounced
this
infallible
sentence
,
Genesis
1.31
,
Loe
they
were
all
very
good
.
How
then
came
it
to
passe
,
that
mans
soule
became
poysoned
?
And
Christ
sayth
in
another
place
,
From
the
beginning
it
was
not
so
.
Mat.
19.8
.
Salomon
sayth
,
God
made
man
righteous
,
Eccles.
7.29
.
The
answere
whereof
our
Christian
Philosophy
sheweth
vs
,
that
our
poysoned
soules
which
defile
our
whole
nature
came
from
the
fault
and
fall
of
Adam
;
and
from
the
curse
of
the
earth
through
Adams
transgression
.
For
the
Diuell
,
that
Roaring
Lyon
,
in
whom
the
full
perfection
of
malice
lies
,
knowing
how
to
most
hurt
,
hath
poysoned
the
Fountaine
,
Adam
and
Eue
:
&
the
Fountaine
once
poisoned
,
then
the
streames
issuing
from
the
same
are
sure
and
most
certainly
infected
.
The
which
Dauid
confesseth
in
the
person
of
all
regenerate
men
,
I
was
shapen
in
wickednesse
,
and
in
sin
hath
my
mother
conceived
me
,
Ps.
51.
Thus
our
spirituall
poyson
came
into
the
soule
and
body
of
man
by
the
subtiltie
of
Sathan
,
that
arch-enimy
of
man-kinde
.
For
he
being
once
an
Angell
in
Heauen
,
a
goodly
creature
,
would
needes
become
a
God
,
and
consequently
a
Creator
.
Now
,
a
Creator
must
needes
make
something
,
and
therefore
here
we
may
behold
his
worke
;
Lo●
,
it
is
euen
sinne
,
for
sinne
is
the
true
creature
,
and
onely
worke
of
the
Diuell
.
And
as
he
is
a
spirit
,
so
hee
hath
society
with
the
spirits
,
as
bodily
creatures
haue
with
our
bodies
.
Thirdly
,
How
the
soule
of
man
poisoned
by
sinne
,
may
be
cured
and
restored
.
The
soule
of
man
that
is
poysoned
by
sinne
,
must
begin
to
be
cured
in
this
life
,
but
it
cannot
bee
perfected
in
this
life
:
For
whatsoeuer
is
begunne
here
in
grace
,
in
the
life
to
come
shall
be
perfected
in
glory
.
And
for
this
great
cure
,
we
ought
diligently
to
obserue
three
things
.
1.
First
,
wee
must
know
our selues
,
what
estate
wee
are
in
,
that
wee
may
see
how
wee
are
poysoned
.
2.
Secondly
,
wee
must
vse
the
remedy
to
cure
the
poyson
.
Thirdly
,
we
must
take
our
medicine
in
due
time
.
Therefore
,
hee
that
hath
eares
to
heare
,
let
him
heare
;
and
that
hath
eyes
to
see
,
let
him
see
,
and
diligently
obserue
what
salue
hee
must
take
to
cure
this
poyson
of
sinne
.
The
first
and
principall
thing
is
to
take
this
precept
of
the
philosopher
,
Nosce
teipsum
,
Know
thy selfe
;
It
is
the
first
thing
to
bee
done
to
this
cure
,
and
the
beginning
of
all
grace
:
For
in
vaine
is
the
medicine
ministred
,
where
the
disease
is
dissemblingly
couered
,
and
kept
vnknowne
.
Wherefore
,
whosoeuer
thou
bée
that
feelest
thy selfe
to
bee
infected
with
this
poisoning
sinne
,
and
art
inwardly
touched
with
any
care
of
thine
owne
saluation
,
and
doest
groane
with
earnest
desire
to
stand
in
fauour
againe
with
God
;
thou
must
seriously
enter
into
thy selfe
,
and
make
a
true
suruey
of
thine
inward
man
,
that
thereby
thou
mayst
know
how
sinne
hath
poisoned
thée
both
in
greatnesse
and
danger
.
For
vntill
thou
knowest
thy
sinnes
,
and
how
they
haue
infected
thy
soule
,
that
thy
conscience
may
bee
conuicted
by
them
,
thou
canst
neuer
bee
cured
.
No
man
can
rightly
acknowledge
his
owne
sinnes
,
no
man
can
truly
confesse
his
fayth
,
no
man
can
duly
vse
the
Sacraments
,
that
doth
not
first
earnestly
try
and
examine
his
owne
conscience
:
That
is
,
throughly
to
try
,
narrowly
to
search
,
and
dilligently
to
prooue
,
who
,
and
what
manner
of
person
hee
is
,
and
in
what
case
hee
feeleth
himselfe
,
how
deeply
his
owne
conscience
is
poysoned
with
sinne
.
And
withall
,
to
know
how
,
and
which
way
hee
may
come
into
fauour
againe
with
God
.
To
the
same
effect
S.
Paul
sayth
,
Let
euery
man
proue
his
worke
,
Gal.
6.4
.
And
againe
,
Proue
your selues
whether
you
be
in
the
faith
,
2.
Cor.
12.5
.
Examine
your selues
,
and
bee
sorrowfull
for
your
sinnes
;
not
for
some
sinnes
,
but
for
all
sinnes
wherewith
you
are
infected
and
poysoned
:
And
that
not
for
an
houre
,
nor
a
day
,
nor
for
a
weeke
,
nor
a
moneth
;
but
mourne
for
your
misdeedes
,
and
bee
sorrie
for
your
sinnes
continually
,
euen
so
long
as
you
liue
.
Wee
must
doe
as
the
Prophet
Dauid
did
,
when
he
had
considered
his
wayes
,
and
found
they
were
euill
,
He
euer
after
turned
his
feet
vnto
the
testimonies
of
the
Lord
.
Ps.
119.56
So
must
euery
one
doe
,
that
mindeth
to
bee
cured
from
the
poyson
of
his
sinne
;
examine
his
owne
conscience
,
and
make
his
heart
smart
for
his
sinne
,
by
aggrauation
thereof
.
The
Church
of
God
confesseth
not
her
sinnes
lightly
,
but
with
wonderfull
griefe
.
Dan.
9.
Secondly
,
wee
must
vse
the
remedy
to
cure
the
poyson
of
sinne
.
As
by
nature
wee
hate
euery
thing
that
hurteth
vs
,
how
much
more
by
grace
should
wee
abhorre
sinne
that
woundeth
vs
?
Amongst
all
the
workes
of
the
Diuell
,
there
was
none
so
mighty
and
malicious
as
the
poisoning
and
destroying
the
soules
of
men
by
sinne
.
So
for
to
cure
our
soules
from
this
deadly
poison
,
our
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
,
that
heauenly
Physition
,
hath
accordingly
giuen
vs
a
remedy
proportionable
to
our
malady
,
out
of
his
glorious
store-house
of
the
holy
Scriptures
If
we
will
he
cured
from
the
poyson
of
sinne
,
we
must
take
Christ
,
and
the
vertuous
physicke
hee
giues
vs
by
a
liuely
fayth
;
but
wee
must
keepe
and
retaine
him
,
and
it
,
by
holinesse
of
life
.
These
two
,
faith
and
holinesse
are
the
two
bonds
of
our
vnion
with
Christ
:
Faith
brings
Christ
to
vs
,
and
holinesse
keepes
him
with
vs
,
and
vs
with
him
.
If
any
man
(
saith
Christ
)
heare
my
voyce
,
and
open
the
doore
,
I
will
come
into
him
,
and
will
stay
with
him
,
and
hee
with
me
.
Thus
by
faith
we
take
this
heauenly
Physicke
,
and
by
holinesse
wee
kéepe
it
.
Wherefore
,
all
those
which
formerly
obeyed
sinne
,
if
they
will
be
cured
from
the
poison
thereof
,
by
faith
and
holinesse
of
life
,
they
must
now
withstand
it
.
They
which
were
wont
to
yeelde
vnto
it
,
must
now
striue
against
it
:
they
which
were
wont
to
delight
in
it
,
must
now
lament
it
:
they
which
did
formerly
let
sinne
raigne
and
captiue
their
soules
in
them
,
must
now
raigne
ouer
it
,
quench
it
,
and
subdue
it
,
and
flie
from
it
,
as
from
the
most
venemous
sting
of
a
Serpent
.
If
the
filthy
and
stinking
poyson
of
their
sinnes
cannot
moue
them
,
let
the
shortnesse
and
vncertainty
of
their
liues
dampe
them
.
If
the
shortnesse
of
their
lines
cannot
,
let
the
small
number
of
them
that
shall
be
saued
fray
them
.
If
that
cannot
,
tell
Death
terrifie
them
.
If
Death
cannot
,
let
the
day
of
iudgement
shake
them
.
If
all
these
cannot
,
then
will
the
torments
of
hell
for
euermore
torment
them
.
Thirdly
,
wee
must
take
our
medicine
in
time
.
For
common
experience
teacheth
vs
,
that
Tempus
est
pretiosum
,
breue
,
&
irreuocabile
,
Time
is
pretious
,
short
,
and
irreuocable
,
Qui
non
ost
hodiè
,
cras
minús
aptus
erat
,
He
that
is
not
ready
to
receiue
this
Heauenly
physicke
to
day
,
will
bee
lesse
ready
to
morrow
.
Let
vs
therefore
take
this
time
while
wee
haue
it
,
for
we
haue
no
time
but
this
present
time
;
the
time
past
is
not
ours
,
it
is
gone
,
and
cannot
bee
recalled
the
time
to
come
is
not
,
for
beeing
not
come
,
it
may
bee
it
neuer
shall
come
:
Onely
the
present
houre
is
ours
,
let
vs
take
and
make
good
vse
of
it
.
So
that
now
,
euen
now
is
the
time
to
take
this
wholesome
and
brauenly
phisicke
to
purge
away
our
sinnes
;
while
wee
are
here
in
this
life
,
the
time
is
in
our
hands
.
Now
the
doore
is
open
,
but
after
this
life
it
will
be
shut
.
Therefore
now
while
the
Gospell
shineth
,
now
while
Christ
calleth
,
now
while
he
speaketh
,
now
while
hee
kneeketh
,
let
vs
amend
our
former
liues
;
let
vs
now
therefore
heare
Gods
word
,
let
vs
now
obey
him
,
let
vs
make
this
day
our
day
to
returne
vnto
God
.
And
although
we
could
neuer
bee
mooued
by
reading
any
booke
heretofore
,
or
by
hearing
Gods
word
preached
hitherto
,
yet
let
vs
now
be
moued
at
the
last
,
and
with
good
Ezechias
,
let
vs
be
afraid
of
Gods
threatning
,
sorrow
aforehand
,
examine
our
consciences
,
and
mourne
for
our
sinnes
,
let
vs
clense
and
purge
our
hearts
and
soules
from
this
poison
,
and
let
vs
neuer
drinke
,
nor
taste
that
deadly
dregs
againe
.
Let
vs
walke
no
more
so
inordinately
in
it
,
wallow
no
more
in
the
filthie
mire
of
it
,
obey
no
more
the
lust
of
it
,
nor
giue
our
members
any
more
to
be
weapons
to
fight
for
it
:
But
with
all
our
power
let
vs
oppose
it
,
resist
it
,
and
manfully
with
all
our
force
fight
against
it
.
Oh
let
vs
shake
off
our
sinnes
,
banish
them
,
send
our
dearest
darlings
packing
,
and
neuer
pittie
them
,
neuer
loue
them
,
neuer
be
led
by
them
,
for
they
would
poison
our
soules
most
deadly
vnto
eternall
destruction
.
To
conclude
,
God
grant
that
we
may
all
,
and
euery
one
of
vs
forsake
our
sinnes
in
time
,
before
it
bee
too
late
;
and
as
Physitions
doe
heale
many
sore
maladies
with
sharpe
medicines
:
so
giue
grace
O
eternall
and
most
gracious
God
,
that
these
my
labours
(
though
they
seeme
vnsauery
,
and
sharpe
to
the
wicked
)
may
yeelde
such
sound
and
godly
Phisicke
,
that
they
may
become
a
salue
to
cure
,
and
preserue
the
soules
of
the
godly
,
in
their
zeale
of
thy
glory
.
And
furthermore
grant
O
swéet
Iesus
,
that
it
may
offer
and
minister
all
such
spirituall
Physicke
vnto
the
soules
infected
with
the
poyson
of
sinne
,
that
it
may
be
a
meanes
to
withdraw
them
from
the
same
.
And
that
the
salue
,
which
is
here
presented
vnto
such
as
are
sicke
,
and
almost
past
recouery
,
may
worke
so
effectually
one
them
,
that
it
may
both
strengthen
,
helpe
,
and
heale
them
of
that
damnable
poyson
,
wherewith
they
are
so
deadly
infected
.
This
GOD
grant
,
without
whose
helpe
all
the
labour
of
man
is
in
vaine
.
And
thus
both
from
the
poyson
of
sinne
,
and
the
punishment
due
for
the
same
,
the
Lord
deliuer
vs
all
,
euen
for
his
deare
Sonne
Christ
Iesus
his
sake
,
our
onely
Saviour
,
To
whom
with
the
Father
,
and
the
Holy
Ghost
,
be
all
honour
,
glory
,
praise
,
power
,
and
dominion
,
both
now
,
and
for
euer
.
Amen
.