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John Trapp on Proverbs 6:32

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Proverbs6:32

Verſ. 32. Lacketh underſtanding] Being wholly carried by ſenſual appetite, againſt the dictates both of Religion, and of Reaſon. Beetles love dunghils better than oyntments, and Swine love mud better than a garden. Luther tells of a certain Grandee in his Country, ſo beſotted with the ſin of Whoredome, hee was not aſhamed to ſay, that if hee might ever live here, and bee carried from one Whore-houſe to another, there to ſatisfie his luſts, hee would never deſire any other heaven. This filthy man did afterwards breathe out his wretched ſoul betwixt two notorious Harlots.

Loniceri theat. hiſtor. p. 5[illegible: 2 letters]. Deſtroyeth his own ſoul] It is not therefore leve peccatum, a ſmall ſin, as the Popes Canoniſts call it. Divine Juſtice doth not uſe to kill Flyes with Beetles.

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