fart.2.Chap.8. eAjftitled (onfcienceJ. < ordinraily aremeere llraniersto all aftlitl:ios offoule, and farrow for fin. Eleventhly,Forterrour to many, 1 k T 0. cep:~~(( m~nx. who going on fecurdy in their fenfuall courfes, are wont to cry downe all they can, the power ofpreaching, by crying to their comp:mions thus, or in the like manner: Well for all thi&, 'We hope, Hell u not fo hot, norJinne (o heavy, nor the D ivell fo black!, nor God fo. unmerciful!, M thefe precifo Preachws Would m,~~ them,&c. How may fuchas thefe be afE.:ighted, and terrified upoa this occafron, with pondering upon · that terrible place~ I Pet.4.IJ,I 8. If iudgement bet.in at the houfo ofGod, What foal! the end 6e of them.ihat obey not the.GofP.ell ofGod? And ~{the righteom fcarcely 6e faved; lf Gods childJ;"en have their confciences fearched, as it were, With the flames of Hell ; · lvhere fodJl the ung od!y-and the)inner t~ppean? But even _ jn the bottome ofthat fiery Lake, and athi.d£1: the un:.. · quencheable rage ofthofe endldfe flames.Twelfthly, 1 :.. T 0 harden Come. For the ju£1: hardening offt.1chas hateto bereformed, and are defperatcly refolved again£1: the faving pricifene{fe ofthe Saints. It may be in this manner: ~godly man bath lived long,amo:1gfl: Rc6e!s,thornes 'and Scorpiom, fcorners,railers, Perfecutors; who,alt~gh he bath fhined all the while M a light, in the midfl of a crook!d and perverfe <~eneratioH; yet-titey were ever fo £me, from being heated with love of heavenly things,by his holy life;or wonne unto good by his gracious example : that like fo ma11y Bats and Owlcs,impatient of allfpiritualllight,they did either flie B:om it, as 6rre as they could in affcc'hon, praCl:ife, ifnot in habitation; Or fdl upon it fiercely with ·their envenomed clawes offpitc and cruelty, to extinquilh quite, if it were poffible, fuch ble{fed beames of[:wing light ; and to darken with helliili mifrs of ignorance, and ill life, the place where they live. They wilfully blinded themfelves with a pefri.. . lent conceit; Th1t his fincerity W riS nothing but ' H h 4 hyl3-ocriiie •
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