-------------·-----------=---' 489 #!Afflicted (onfciellctl. Bodily dlfiempers; horrible irijettion.s, hideous thoughts,&c. Whe~eby they are mightily affiighted before ~land, and prepared t-o pa.lfe thorow the.Pangs ofthe New-birth more terribly. . · . : 3. Some hainous.aiidcrying finne~ wnich he fuf... 3,Some grievous tin, fers fome tofall into, and immediately upon it awakes the confcience. That Almighty Phyfition, who is able to bring health out ofpoifon; death out of life; Light out of ·darkene.lfe-; Heaven out of Hell; may by .accident, as they fay, prepare one toconveriion,by giving him over to the height offome one, or moe abhorred abhominations, and crimfon finnes : As we may fee in Pet~rs Hearers;~Efs.z r ' Paul, Manajfe.r, the ftnfu!l Wom.sn, Pu6/icans and Harlots; left to the killing of Chrifr, fpi11ing the blood ofthe Saints, thofe horrible o~rages, extreme filth, extortions, pollutions. Phyfitions,l:ly ripening difeafes, make way to heale them ; For ficke matter is never more eafily removed, then when it exceedeth in ripeneffe and quantity. 4- ·Lying long in ignorance, fenfuality, and dirfo- 4 I.ong tyi-ng in igno- ·Iute life;. without proAtable, <J.nd powerfull meanes. ranee. In this cafe upon the firfr.awaking, and affi·ighting the confcience fur finne, . it may be expofed to many terrible perplexities,. and longer contintted tertours. For ti1e light of naturaU confcience, bred with them in their owne bofomes,may in the meane time frrv e. to enrage,and·torture; as we fee in many guilty Heatlfens: but there is no naturalllight, to lead us to Chrift, and evangelicall comforts. The corn- . mandements have ground in nature ; but the:myfrerie of the Go.fpell is. whGlly fupematuraH. We 6nde it by manifold experience,what an hard, and heavy· ·· . taske i~ is, to und-ertake ~ poore ignorant foule~ ·· , troubled in minde. The cure is many times very difi. · ~cult, dangerous and long. The darkne!fe of their Ignorance, being now diil:reiled :lli confcience, is· . very. .~ .
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