The Woes of Wantonness
Proverbs 5:11
And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,


I. LAMENTATION FOLLOWS WANTONNESS.

1. When men find their goods gone and their bodies corrupted.

2. When they see all their opportunities of doing good to soul and body gone.

3. They feel God's hand heavy on them, as being on the rack of an evil conscience.

II. THE END OF WANTON COURSES IS SORROWFUL.

1. Because of pleasures past.

2. Because of present sorrows.

3. Because of pursuing pain that is gotten by disease.

4. Because of public shame.

III. THE BODY ITSELF IS CONSUMED BY WANTONNESS. Because it consumes the radical humour of the body.

(Francis Taylor, B. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

WEB: You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,




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