[ 1748] All Sin must be hated, and why so?
THere is mention made by a good old Christian,* 1.1 of a certain Dog, whose Ma∣ster being slain by one of his Enemies, he lay by him all the night with great lamentation, howling and barking; In the morning many came to see the dead Corps, amongst the rest he also came that slew his Master; The Dog no sooner saw the Homicide, but made at him, and held him fast, whereby the wickednesse of so close a Murther was discovered: See here the Love, the Faith∣fulnesse of a poor brutish Creature for a piece of bread, that was so incensed against the Murtherer of his Master: And shall poor sinfull Man make much of those Enemies, those Sins that kill'd his Lord and Master Christ Iesus? cherish those Sins that apprehended him, that bound him, that scourged him, that violent∣ly drew him to the Crosse, and there murthered him? It was neither Pilate, nor the Ie••s, nor the Souldiers, that could have done him the least hurt, had not our Sins like so many butche••s and hangmen come in to their assistance;* 1.2 Let there∣fore our Fury be whetted against all Sin, let that be the Object of our hatred, be sure to be the death of that, that hath been the death of so good a Master, and will, if not prevented, be the death of thy poor Soul to all Eternity,