· 1 o8 1 The SaintJ --- - -- \ of his out~ard efiace) doth ruffle it in his vanicies, _ \and runne on in his finnes, prefuming that the great · Sea ofGods merciewill at lengrh wafh away all~ and the unvaluable price of Chrills bloud-fhed wiU difcharge the fcore of his tranfgreffions )– though neyerfomany)may in thedayofhisvifita· . don, in the day.ofruineand perplexity) byGods i jull: ;udgement be wickeslly perfwacled, that his (fins are greater than can be pardoned~and that that infinjce mercywill not remit fo much as his leafi finfull vanity. We may fometimes take notice by wofull and lamentable experience~ that fome ha- ! ving runne a long and fin full race:, ina defperate Icontemptof themeanesof theirfalvation, in pre– ~ fu~ptuous impenitencie, making Gods mercies I a motive·of rebellion againfr his Majefiie., when \ once God beginnes to let loofe the co~doftheir P!:tl. tO. i.f ~ 'I· confciences, to fet their finnes. in oraet-before . them, to place theirfecrei finnes in thelightof his Pfal.9o.s. ~euntenan<:e_, and to bend the browofdivine ju– -fiice agtin!l: their prophane and bold prefumpti- : ons, they prefendy defpaireof Gods mercy"-ang theirowne falvation, they give over their foules as already condemned; andare like that~bomina-· ble·Ufurer_, who having fufiained fome Ioffe in his goods,byand bybereaveth himfelfeofhis lifealfo; and fofometimes grow to phrenfie and madneffe) or fort unto themfelves fearefull and rufull ends) andviolent_deathJ fo wretchedly likeGlly fifh, lea– ping outof the frying pan intotheJire,they throw 1 themfelv~s fiom t?e·hell of confcience, ·into- !he ·1 hell ofWickeddevils. Aswederlre then todedme /, . . . thefe
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