BOOK IX: Wisdom in the hidden part, or practical wisdom concerning original sin, founded on David's
Israelites. Though men kindle blazes of pleasures, which yet are but sparks, and walk in the comfort of them a while, yet they lie down in sorrow, Isa. 50:11. And in hell, so much torment there will be, in proportion to the pleasures which men have had in sin: James 5:1,
'Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.' Rev. 18:7, 8, 'How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burnt with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.' Hear, and seriously consider this, you who have lived in pleasure, and nourished yourselves deliciously with sinful delights; yea, and those things which have been the instruments of your lusts shall most be punished; as Dives his tongue, which was the conduit-pipe of his pleasure, was now the vessel of his pain.
BOOK IX:
Wisdom in the hidden part, or practical wisdom concerning original sin, founded on David's example and practice, Ps. 51:6.—That this sin is matter of repentance as well as our actual sins, and how we are to be humbled for it, and to repent of it