23. Consider here seriously, that fearefull haruest of most bitter sheaues, that poysoning seed of sinne bringeth out.
THe wise gardner iudgeth of his tree by the fruite thereof, as the vertuous husbandman iudgeth of his seed accor∣ding to his haruest. But, ô my soule, when shalt thou, learning to be holily and truly wise, begin to iudge of sinne thine onely enemie, by that fruit, by that haruest, alas, which it bringeth forth! How fearefully hurtfull is that strange haruest that follo∣weth it? I must tell thee here, ô my soule, that that sinne wherein I was concei∣ued and borne, and which, alas, I must keepe alwayes within my bosome while I liue here, bringeth foorth fruite and sheaues, which be so fearefully bitter, so horribly hurtfull, that if this bitternesse