362 GeneraItdireelionsfor a lay downe his cold carkaffe among the flones ofthe pit , at the rootes of the rockes : his name, by reafonofhis former prid-, luxury, oppreffion, oppofition togoodneffe , flail rot as fall , and fiinke as bad above ground , as his body in the grave. And laffly, the onely forethought whereof thould make him tremble all the dayes ofhis life; his itnmortall foule fincks irrecoverably by the weight offin , into the bottorne ofthe burningLake ; where thereare torments without end, and pall imagination ; exceeding not onely all patience, but all refinance; where there is no flrength to fultaine, nor abi- litie tobeare ; that which there, whileft God isGoct, fore- ver mull bee borne. And when they have beene- endured a millions of yeeres ; yet are no neerer end, then when they began ; nor the ionic neerer out, then when it came in. Tell mee then, I prayyou, in all this, is thereany roome for rejoy. cing ? Is there any matter for true mirth ? No more then tafte in the white of an egge, then flrength in a brokennaffs' of reede , then fweetneffe in the apples ofSodome. Why then, it is a flame for theweaken Chrifban that breaths but the fpirituall life, even of holy defires ; not tobee infinitely more merry then the moft glorious and magnificent world- Hngupon earth. Shall agraceleffe wretch,going towards hell, to whomGod himfelfe bath proclaimed, 7here id hopeace, no joy, b as theSeptuagint: render it ; who is a meere Thiefe, Robber and nfurper, in refpeaof all the joyes upon which hee intrudes ; and which way foever he rafts his eyes, ifhee weare not falfe fpeaacles , or bee blindfoldedby the Devil', can fee nothingbut the ugly face of horrour, and true caufe of trembling. If hee looke backward upon the time paft ; bee may fee all the abominable lulls of his youth , all the finnes of his former lifer regiftred with an iron pen in the booke ofhis confcience ; and lurking there like fo many .,flee- ping Lions; who upon thevery firft touch ofGods' ifiting hand, will awake, arifeeand rent in pieces. If hee looke upo his prefent ftate, thorbw the cleareCriftall ofGods righ- teous Law. He may feeDivine vengeancedogging him hard at:the heeles a ,ready to itril,c9bun downeinto knell, clan aSipoittot millia :17i7r , quo runt omne_s , qui- cunque fuerunt e; erunt , pcenas fuas finiri fpera- renr,inult6 eas. fuftinerent fed quia fpem non habent , nee ha- bebunt,defperati- one deficient, et ad tormenta non diffident. actg. De Pia cap. SF b Ow: Apro 707c.,b7iCfcro In- Jaime ;Dards'. Efa 57-7, Ir Mali homines non gaudere,fed geft:- re fEcuntur pro- 'pre Non eft gau- dere dick Dominus de don% in Mont. 114,2, cap. )8. the
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