Part. '2. Chap. 6, .Affli[led Confcieni:es. ~17 fon of th~ hellilh mifrs, and miferable lethargie of fpirituaU blindnell~~ \Vhich makes them !ightleffe, and fenfelefie. Secondly~ when times of for row come upon them, when melancholy and old age growes on, and th~y f1y untotheworld, uponwbichtheybave doted all theit life long, I have no pleafure in thee; when loife~, cro!fes, and beavie accidents bet1il them; when hideous injeCl:ions,temptations to felfe-murder, . defoaire? &c. preffe thern full for~; apd they thereupon begin to caft about feriouf1y' and to conceive with gt~t terrdur and anxiety of fpirir, what is like to be. come of them in the other world ; Then in fttch ext remity, and forced by neceffitie, th~y are wont to have recoutf.: to Minifrers for eafeand help: :_and alas! tbea we are at our wit~ end, as they fay, a.nd in much petpJe.xitie how td ck\le, and what tio doe \Vi th them. For upon t'he fir8: er1trance into a difcoverie oftheir fipirituall fl:ate, we fee evident! y With griefe ofheart, ( ) T' r 1 h . h . ( ) . · h. l . h m t1 ::> 1e t ut ave that t ~lr m Ignorance ath betrayed t _1em_. tot e no mindc ar all ro .Di \·ell~Gnd noW in the evrll day expokd them t6 met- heare. or r2~,1e r.he cileffe ctndtie .and cunning.; ev·en as if a man fi1ould, Wo:-d, i( ar ~ny rime commit a {hip without failes, rttdder, pilot,&c. to· the tlJrotigl~ tl1e rc?lorfe rage, and roating of·the tempdh1ous devtmr'ing fea; of. rhe1r coafcience, k . k d . l fi l 1 < • fl. wlmh accufeoth thew, or pm:? f>d~re ~~a ~ha e fl!ai} mto t1e e t1 a:g.a~t;~ they fee le ;;rry i:\ward ,3]11 ltnpJac'abJe' t:mghtl~ adver!Jne, Cbmp1en'f>}y 'art'ned gricfc,foer'Ow~ or h{:t • .from to;> to toe. We tei1tbem tn1ly,t1~at tlie' tr,n~ · wa'y vinefl~ fti r thei,r' Gn~. to comfort_, is to ~pent afld Bd~eve, Bm for theiidl, (or fo ;m: eh as they by reafon. of th~ fo~t~fh dificquaintance with them- ;:,~~~<;r~ le ~reG~~ fdv.es, Wlth .the1r m1fer~ble, iinfull,naturall ftate, and ~Vord, which r~1ey do the1r-groife Ignorance ~h the Law and W<?rd of God, d:lpiie, it will .bc iuithey otJely cry out in _the generall, they arevery grie- to them ~ather a YoUs finnets: but to defcei1d to any competent exatni,- me:tn~ to .b~mg 1 ~elll · f h r. · t h f h · . . to utter defpl!ranon, natiOn o t e con,clence, 1earc o t e1r foules by the then otherwi'c. Pow1 _ fight of rh~ Law, particular furvay oftheir finnes, .and of 1?.!per;l.tnce,p11g ~- {o. to fpectall repenta11ce, ·becaufe,.. of the it fpirituall ' . bltndneife, they ~re utterly unable. Nay many in this C4fi are fo defht~1te of ma;ter ofhnmiliation for !inne, ·'· -that _
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