Usually in wicked families, some one or two are more arch for
wickedness than are any other that are there. Now such are Satan's
conduit-pipes; for by them he conveys of the spawn of hell, through
their being crafty in wickedness, into the ears and souls of their
companions.
"And she bare Cain:" the first sprout of a disobedient couple, a man
in shape, but a devil in disposition.
The sinner, when his conscience is fallen asleep and grown hard,
will lie like the smith's dog at the foot of the anvil, though the
fire-sparks fly in his face.
Peace in a sinful course is one of the greatest of curses.
There is a wicked man that goes blinded, and a wicked man that goes
with his eyes open, to hell; there is a wicked man that cannot see,
and a wicked man that will not see, the danger he is in; but
hell-fire will open the eyes of both.
The soul with some is the game, their lusts are the dogs, and they
themselves are the huntsmen; and never do they more halloo and lure
and laugh and sing, than when they have delivered up their soul,
their darling, to these dogs.
I may safely say, that the most of men who are concerned in a trade,
will be more vigilant in dealing with a twelvepenny customer, than
they will be with Christ when he comes to make unto them by the
gospel a tender of the incomparable grace of God.