The godly mans iourney to heauen containing ten seuerall treatises. Viz. 1. An heauenly chariot the first part. 2. An heauenly chariot the second part. 3. The blessed chariots man. 4. The lanthorne for the chariot. 5. The skilfull chariot driuer. 6. The gard of the chariot. 7. The sixe robbers of the chariot. 8. The three rocks layd in the way. 9. The only inne Gods babes aime at. 10. The guests of the inne. By maister David Lindsey Minister of Gods word at Leith.

7. Let the sense of that death which is the wages of sinne, and of that shame which is the reward of sinne, make thee to shunne sinne.

ABhorre, abhorre, ô my soule, sinne as thou louest thy God and thy selfe: for hath not thy God, who loued thee with a great loue, with a wise loue, told thee, that whosoeuer sinneth against him, must not onely receiue wages for his sins, but besides & with his wages, that reward which is due vnto sin also? The wages

of sinne,* 1.1 ô my soule, as thou knowest, is death, euen that first death, with all those diseases which leade a man vnto it, separating the soule from the bodie and the bodie from the soule; and that second death, banishing soule and body from the comfortable sight of Gods onely amiable face, onely gracious presence, and onely sweetest companie, for euer and for euer. And wherefore wouldest thou die thus, ô my soule? The reward of sinne againe is shame, procuring such confusion to man, that he dare not lift vp his head before God,* 1.2 before Angels, before men, vnlesse in soule he be sensl••sse, both of his God, and of his sinne. This shame was that re∣ward, ô my soule, wherewith our iust God propined our first parents, the first sinners, so soone as they medled with sinne. For howbeit Adam and Eua being free of sinne, were altogether naked, in respect of materiall corporall seene clothes, yet they were not ashamed, but could stand before their God, and looke one vpon another with a very good heart, and most cheare∣full countenance: so glorious were they through the rare shining beautie of that Image of God, which then couered them

as a most royall robe. But no sooner, ô my soule, were they infected with sinne, by disobeying the voyce of their God, but immediatly they were couered with shame, that they durst not looke vpon their God, and were confounded while they looked one vpon another.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Rom. 6. 23.
• * 1.2

  Rom. 6. 21.