[ 987] The great danger of sleighting the least Sinne.
GEnerall Norris,* 1.1 one of the Ancients of that Noble Family, having (as he thought) received a sleight wound in the Wars of Ireland, neglected the same, presuming belike, that the balsome of his own body, without calling in for those other Auxiliaries of Art, would have wrought the cure; but so it was, that his arm gangrened, and both arm and life were lost together: Thus it was with him in the body natural, and thus it will be too in the body spirituall; the least of Sin therefore is to be avoyded, the least growth of sinne to be prevented, the Cocka∣trice must be crushed in the egge,* 1.2 else it will soon become a Serpent; the very thought of sinne, if not thought on, will break out into Action, Action into custom, custome into habit, and then actum est de Corpore & Anima, both body and soul are ••recoverably l••st to all Eternity.