foule-exalting humiliation. 7) derand .hellHh difpaire, is more horrible and -abo- " minable in the fight ofGod~ than all thyother fins) web rbou f.houldfi: ever commit,though thou {haul– deft live to old age. Suppofe worfe than fhould or canbe ima'O'ined : that thou fha]t becerrainlydam- . ' o , ned: yet what prodigious madneffe isit for thee to paffe the remainder of thy naturaU courfe in hell ; wherea~ thou mighcefi it JJpon earth. · · , · 6 Againfi: the rules · refolutionof heathen Philofophe rs~ who teach that it is extremefi'Coward · es tokilla .mans felfe. See before driji.Etb.li~.) .c11p.7• . Do~ . n._pag.tJ·9·.[ Anfi;p. •· This common notion and generaU prin– cipleof(elfe prefervation forrfll this isnot quite ex– t!nguifhed~even in him,which prat!iferh upon himielfetheh ible,unnaturall and mofidamnable fin· I 6ffe ffi llrder. For why may ir not be fa id, that · · j ftKh aone finneth againfl: the light of hi s naturall conft:ience, as well as a Chrifiian may ·fin againft the ljghtGfhis con_!(ience,:nformed and convinced . by.Gods word? an~ therefore might cry in the at~ tempt ofrhat hellifi; aCt With her in the Poet. ------,videomeliora,.proboq~ · Jeuriorafet~u,or. ·. , I fhouldnot die, I fee, Yet rlo~ ir, I will, though damn'd I be. ·The light of naturall confcience for felfe-prefer– vation fiands up like an armed man againfi that bloody act ef felfe-execution ; but hellifh .pride, 1mpaciency~the DeviH anddefperation over.beare and overrurne it for a time, hood-winkes it for a while _with th~ bellifh mifrs of horrour, though ' ! they cannot qmr~putout that eye. 2 He · )-~-..:......--_ . ' I
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