2$4. The Evil ofEvils, Or the fore you feel it, the dreadfuller will it be then. All tholethat have corrupt heartr, and have this worm breed, if God would make the worm gnawnow,it would be we1 for them ; for there be wages to kill it here, tokill theworm ofCon- fcience. Ifit gnaw, there is a Soveraign Medi- cine, thebloodofChrift : And certainly there is noMedicine in the world to kill this worm but the blond ofChrifr,andthole that God doth intend to kill this worm in, and thole that (hall not have it gnaw toall eternity,God lets it gnaw now, theMinitery of the Wordmakesit gnaw and pain them, and they feel ('each pain that wherefoever theygo, or whatfoever they do yet the worm lies gnawing upon their hearts, theycannot fleep, or eate their meat : Alas ! what fhould I eat, and have my worm gnaw there ! And they can never be at refi till God apply the blood of Chrifr, and then they void the worm as it were. How will you rejoyce whenyourChildren, if the worms be great and put them topain,ifthePhyfitian give them that which makes them void them, howdo youre- joyce to fee the worm that would have been thedeath of your Child ? Itmight havegrown bigger andbigger, if it had not been taken a- way. So idare fay there is never aSoul here be- fore theLord, but bath, or had a worm in their breafis, I fay, There was a time youhad this worm inyour breafis, that without it were cu- red, would liegnawing to all eternity, it is that :which breeds of the filth and corruption of your hearts. Suppofe a manhada little dirt on his
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