Bolton - Houston-Packer Collection BV824 .B65 1634

- . fi~o-u.-le--,e-x- .a-lt---i».-g- . h-:-u_m_i_li-at-io_n__ ~ ---- 7 9 _ btnby taking away his life. . . . 4With the intolerable weight of hi~ hainous fins, and with aconceit, that he hath committed crim_es ~hich are unpardonable, and namely thttt agairift the holyGhofr, &c. . 1heworldwondersat thofewhichare troubled in ·mind, as the Owle is wofidred at by the fitt le birds. Such ·are.cenfured by alLnaturall peopleformad– men, to· have beene extraordinarie-, and norori- : ous Gnners, to be Gngled out, as fpeciall fpeltades · ofGods mofl: vifible, and rer:oorkable'vengeance: they become aby-word~ and table-talke, toall wic– ked worldlings,andthe Drunkards fong,ofallwhich · difgraces a poere foule yet too . ignorant of the · happindfe a~d honour of be-ing ·troubled for fin~ and but commingnewout ofthe world,wherein he . had much credit, favour, and good·report, is very fenfibleand impatient.So that he-is toooften temp– ted, ·rather·to returne with the dog and fow to the, filth ofdif-avowod lufr,and vomit of his formervil-: lany, or, (which is for our prefent purpofe..) to die, . ~ha~to fuffer ll1eh difgrace.The fleih alfoconcorres' with the Devtll> and the world, to promote ·rhis accurfed and bloodie act, by r~· HdlHhpride, which will not be curbed, and confind by Gods wife and ,bleffed ordering, or froope to rhe conduct of his gratious ·providence, but makes him choofe not to live, rather than not to live as he defdres. . 2 Imp~riencie, pu fillanimitie,extreme weakneffe and impotenqie ofm ind ; whicJ! mofr unworthily makes his hear~ melt -away like wat&r, upon the affau}ts of ordinarie;; and many times~ -honourable fufferings;

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