sin with security, in the midst of all your displeasing of God; though you may eat and drink, and rise up to play, take heed lest at length you cry out, ‘I have sinned, and my sin is greater than I can bear;’ for Judas came at last to this, ‘I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood,’ Mat. 27:4. Sins, till they are committed, are hidden from the eye of conscience, but then guilt flasheth in the face. Before the commission, the devil will not let us see it, lest we should prevent it;
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