352 How fhoolei Chriltian behave himfelf Sertis tide thine, the ftain or mark of fin wafhed off quite, as to Jufl ficatrrl and prefent acceptation; and in part began as ro Santtcfìcation and purity of heart and life. Thy Confcience is prcified with the blood of f)irinlçling, as to what the Word declares concerning thee, though not as to what thou feelefl; and where the Judge acquits there Confci- ence, which is the Serjeant cannot condemn : but that 'cis not always fet right according to the Word. 2. Motive. 2. But O r the terrour of having fin upon the file againfl us ; and The rerrour of (Joel thou remain in fin unrepented ? Doell thou go onto adde tìn to being yet, and fin, not caring how many fns thou loadeíi thy Confcience withal,s if. going on in fin there were no time of reckoning ? Numb. 32.23. Be ye fore your fins will find you out. Sic mihi Temper Do not fay, FL.ff thou found me O my enemy ? or as the wicked one Irt thou come to torment us before our time ? But as thou l(Jvefithy amicos non elul- foul, take all I fay in good part, for God knows I fpeak out of tender tibia verbk fed refpec4 to your eternal good. Confider then, fanúterroribxs I. The innumerable number of fins thou flandefl guilty of, Prat, &rn. 19. 12. Who knows the errors of bis life ? Methinks there is no fad fight in the world but the tanner in his fins. Suppofe you had feen Herod covered over with worms, alas what is this to one worm of Confcience. Suppofe you had feen every member in the Senate run upon cefar to give him a flab , would not you have given him over for dead a thoufand times? Brethren, every fin you commit is an envenomed knif to flab you at your very heart. Suppofe again you fhould fee a malefaclour at the Bar for a Capital crime, the evidence clear, O ! you will fay 'twill go hard with him ; but when you fee another, and another, and many other I..dilments fworn home againfi hirh, and every one touching his life,will you not fay there is no hope , he is a dead man, and all the world cannot fave him. Remember this is thy cafe, and it wrll be certainly called over. If one poifon be enough to difpatch a man without an antidote, what doth that man mean that drinks off a thoufand poyfons, and refufes the antidote of the blood of ( hrifi. If one fin be as a thoufand milflones to fink all the world into the bottom of hell, what doeft thou mean to tye fo many thoufand mil- flones about thy own neck 2 Old debts vex moil, the delay of payment increafes them by Ufe upon Ufe, and the return of them being unexpeâed, a perfon is feall provided for them. We count o ld fures breaking firth incurable. Au-
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