[100] See Plutarch's Tract, entitled, "That vice is sufficient to make a man wretched." Si non ipso honesto movemur ut viri boni simus, sed utilitate aliqua, atque fructu, callidi sumus, non boni; si emolumentis, non suapte natura, virtus expetitur, vana erit virtus, quæ malitia rectè dicitur. P. Scal. p. 744.
[101] Voluntarium est omne peccatum. Tolle excusationem: nemo peccat invitus. Martin. Dunilens. de Morib. Nihil interest quo animo facias, quod fecisse vitiosum est, quia acta cernuntur, animus non videtur. Id. ibid.
[102] Sick bodies only suffer ill; but sick souls both suffer ill and do ill. Plutarch's Mor. p. 314.
[103] See the Assembly's Larger Catechism about aggravations of sin.
[104] See my treatise of "Crucifying the World," and of "Self-denial."
[105] Of the Temptations to hinder Conversion, see before, chap. i.
[106] Vide Pool's Synopsis, Critic, in Levit. i. 77. In these latter the word "spirit" signifieth the ill disposition, which Satan as a tempter causeth, and so he is known by it as his offspring.
[107] See my "Treatise against Infidelity," as before cited.
[108] Animi molles et ætate fluxi dolis haud difficulter capiuntur.
[109] See my two sheets for the Ministry.