fe/fe.-inriching examination. ,. particular·fiingand horrour of rhat finne, whole armies of his former tranfgreffions, all the finnes 'of his youth, evento his cr~dle, nay, his originall corruption, at his conception before hewasborne, 1 ' ranke themfelves againfr him with great rage an~t ! fury~ and with as infolent cruelcy, _as if they had neverbeene pardoned. It is in this.cafe with the · ChrHHan, relapfcd into fome old, or overtaken with fome new finn~, as with a ,Bankrout arrefted ., for debt, and throwne into prifonJ for if once ·one man ·bath hold on him by the backe,. then prefenrly all the refr of his Creditors come thicke :.and threefold upon him. How watchfull ;then ·:ruould every childeof God be over his wayes, lefr ··byhis fall, befides offence unto others, and the ·.high difhonourof God, he bring·upon his O}Vne; .backeafrefb theweight, 'the flings and guiltinetfe of allhis f0qner rebellions,the finnes of~is youth, the pollutions of his conception, .nay, .the very ,tranfgreffiotls of his pa.rents. · · 3;. Upon fame fudden vifitation with fome grie– vous finnes; or at the firH: falling upon the bed of death, ~he . Chrifrian !flay have ~he 'eight of his · .finnes he more heavily upon ht-nt 3 and ~ppeare more griefly to the eye of hisconfcience than'they were wonr. , For-there is a kinde of naturall power , in ficknelfe) farrow, darkneff'e, melancholy., rhe night, .extraordinarycrotTes, the .bed of.death; to reprefent the true number and hainoufneffe of our · .finnes, with greater ho~rour, and more unto the ' .life ; whereas .profperity, eafefulne1fe, dayes -ofi peac~:)doe ratherddude .the eye ofthe con!G:ience, · am:L ' ' See Pfizl. ·1 'i. & s x. S~e the Story of~-B. in mybooke f<:>r afflitl:ed confd~ enccs, pa.g S4.
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