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O God, thou wilt not despise. The heart must be broken all to pieces, beaten to powder, and must be content to be weaned from all sin, which is the way to be fitted for Jesus Christ.
3 Reason. The soul cannot part with its sins and lusts, which is its god, until he find himself wearied with them, and as gall and wormwood to him, and now this weariedness and burden of sin, must needs cause in the soul a sound sorrow for it, be- fore the soul sees the venomous and ugly nature of it, he is not willing to part with it. Go to pull away the adulterer's whore, and the drunkard's pots, you had as good go to kill them: the reason is because they find sweetness in those base courses, and they are all their delight. But now when the Lord comes to lay a heavy weight on this man's shoulders that those wicked sins, which were so sweet before, he finds them now as bitter as all and wormwood, and now he lies down sorrow, and cries out Oh is sin such a deadly killing evil, as it will certainly destroy body and soul in and is there to entering into h er with the guilt of these upon any soul. O Good Lord, do what thou wilt with me, only take my soul and save me, and take away my lasts are corruption from me.'
