16 szpe PowMano fantílp Zook. rider, That it is one thing to think of Hell defpairing y as thofe that have littleor no hopes to efcape it : This might make a man mad indeed : But this is not your Cafe. Iut. it is another thing to fear Hell, as that which you (a) may molt certainly avoid, and with- al! attain eternal life, if you will but content to the oarsof that Saviour, who will freely fave you. No man (hall be damned that is truly willing to be : faved ; To be faved I fay, from Sin and Hell. S. I pray you tell me then, what maketh the thoughts ofthe world to-comefo terrible to us? and what maketh fomany that are troubled in Confcience, to bemelanchoä 4y, or to livefofadalife? P. I will tell you what. I have had to do with as. many Melancholy Confcientious perfons as any one that I knowof in England And I have found that a , there isnot oneof many of them, but it is forne (b) worldly crop which makes them Melancholy, and then it turneth to matters of Confcience afterwards, when they have a while had the difeafe. 2. And for the moft part, it befalleth very few but either weak, irited tender Women, whofe brains are fo weak and their fancies and paons fo ffrong and violent, that they can bear notrouble nor ferrous thoughts, but their Reafon is prefently difturbed and born down or elfe forne men that by natural diftempers of body, either from their parents, or contrac`tcd by fame difeafe, are fpecially inclined to it. 2. And when I have known it befal force few in their firft Repentance, it bath ufually been fame very heiaoic (a)Ifa.S5. z,a, 3,6,7.e.Mact.l 1.z8.Rev.z2.17.Mar. 16.16.10h03.16,18,19. (b) z Cor.74o,11. fnnera,
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