Part 38

d is got in a safer path to hell than he was in before. He has [Auto-modernized] got another heart than he had, that is more cunning; not a new heart, that is more holy.

(3.) The mortification of sin consists not in the improvement of a quiet, sedate nature. Some men have an advantage by their natural constitution so far as that they are not exposed to such violence of unruly passions and tumultuous affections as many others are. Let now these men cultivate and improve their natural frame and temper by discipline, consideration, and prudence, and they may seem to themselves and others very mortified men, when, perhaps, their hearts are a standing sink of all abominations. Some man is never so much troubled all his life, perhaps, with anger and passion, nor does [Auto-modernized] trouble others, as another is almost every day; and yet the latter has [Auto-modernized] done more to the mortification of the sin than the former. Let not such persons try their mortification by such things as their natural temper gives no life or vigour to. Let them bring themselves to self-denial, unbelief, envy, or some such spiritual sin, and they will have a better view of themselves.

(4.) A sin is not mortified when it is only diverted. Simon Magus for a season left his sorceries; but his covetousness and ambition, that set him on work, remained still, and would have been acting another way. Therefore Peter tells him, "I perceive you [Auto-modernized] are [Auto-modernized] in the gall of bitterness;" -- "Notwithstanding the profession you [Auto-modernized] have [Auto-modernized] made, notwithstanding your [Auto-modernized] relinquishing [Auto-modernized] of your [Auto-modernized] sorceries, your [Auto-modernized] lust is as powerful as ever in you [Auto-modernized] ; the same lust, only the streams of it are diverted. It now exerts and puts forth itself another way, but it i