·---·~-~-~ ------ +Y-~---~-···->• -·· ·........ -~ 1 'Part.2.Chap.2t. · · e.Ajflicted(onftienees. furprijc:d, yeeld and foil' d, befbre.l1e get into {uch · company, which might happily have prevented it, , or fupponed him' in the temptation, Too much {e. crdie and concealement, may caufe the wound of a terrified confcience to bleed inward,rankle, fefier, and grow defperate; wheras fea~onable difcovery might have cured,and comforted it :'Horrour arifmg from the apprehenfion offucb uncouth and monihous thoughts, kept clofe a~d ~amm'd up in the · ~ans owne brdt, may fwellio htgh, that the poote foul may be in great danger to be woful~y drowned, · and 0verw helmed by it; \\~1ich had it had vent be.:. time; eafed and ~mptied it felfe into fome holy and faithfull bofome;might by divine and difcreet coun.. fell,by little and little clrye.d up quite. I have known him, who did bite in and keep clofe in his bofom,this temptation ofblafphemy the fpace of about twenty yeares.All which while the Divdl cl.id tyrannize ex.. tremely ,& keep him almofr in continuall terrour .He · thought there was never man l:Jad fuch 'Vile and prf.);.. digious thoughts,as he:And ifthe world knewwhat they were,hewould be abhorr" d as a monfrer of men, and the loathfommefr creatureuponearth,moft war;;. thy to be utterly exterminated,and rooted out of the · fociety and confines ofMan-kind. Az'ld hereupon: many and many a time, when he apprehended ~my op2ortunity,or had any meanes offered tomake hirn.;. fdfe awayD he was temptedtheteunto ;' principally upon this ground,that it was pitty, fuch anh0rrible. Blafphemc,r (forfohefuppokd) ibould any longer breath. But at l"'fr,hcaring the nature,m.anner,and re• medy of thefe hideous injeCl:ions dikoyered by the MiniO:ery ; afterward privately informing himfelf6 further & more fully from GodsMdfenger,washappily taken ofthe rack for the time to come, and moft :wonderfully refr.eibed. And therefore take bee& · o£ r
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