358 TOit pannottp of íße Ztbíue2Atï1tbntc0 Chap. 18. ni{h for ever ? Thus our Saviourfortified. his Difciples agairíft Perfec:Ition : Ifay untoyou, my Friends, Be not Luk. Y 2. 4, S. afraidofthem that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do ; but Iwill forewarnyou whomyou fhallfear : fear himwhich afterhe hath killed hath power to call into fell ; yea Ifayunto you, fear him. Eternal Damnation is infinitely more fearful than Temporal Death. As the RodofMofes devoured the Rods ofthe Magicians ; fo the fear of Hell overcomes the fear of Death,and all the Tormentswhichend with this Life. I fhall add further, to {hew how fitan Argument this is towork on mankind ; That ufually the Fear ofevil more deeply affeés than theHope of good. When the Imagination is violently ftruck with an object, it hatha mighty force to turn theMind and Will it felf. Therefore Laws are fecured by Puni{hrnents, not by Rewards. Indeed the fear ofHell at firft difpofes us for the love ofHeaven : to efcape the one we fly to the other. As thevirtueof the Loadftone is increaft by ar- ming it with Iron, whichalthough it hath no attrative power in it felf, yet by conjuná}ion it makes the o- ther'smore forcible : So the promifeofHeaven makes a ftronger impref lon uponus by the threatningof Hell to all that defpife it. Were itnot for the Torments of Hell ( which are more eafilyconceived by us whileft we are cloathedwith fle{h, than Celeftial Joys, and there= foremoreftrongly affeóus) Heavenwould be negle&ed, andbe as emptyofSaints as 'tis full ofGlory. To a- waken us out of thedeep Lethargy offenfual Lufls,the molt pleafant Mufick is ineffeóual,nothing lefs is requi- fite than cutting and fcarifying. And not only thofe thatbegin, and firft enter in the ways ofGodlinefs, but thofewho are advanc'd in Chri.- flianity have needof this Bridle. For there are force temptations wherein the Fletti afraults the Spirit with that
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