comfortable walking with God. 169 nor take fromus ; neither muttany lranger meddlewith it. Weemay takean eWrnateof its excellencie, by cafting our eyesupon. The intolerable bitternefle of the contrary, Imeane, fpirituall horrour, which we fee, fometimesby wofull expe- rience, Both inrage the guilty confciences of tome forlorne wretches, withfuck reftlef a furies, andunutterableanguifl,, that at length, (extreniei, I know not whetherinadneffe r cruelty) they lay violent and villanous hands upon them- felves. Inwhich cafe, filch an hell upon earth is horrour of confcience, they care not a button for the fweetneffe of life, the ruefull cries oftheir owndeare children,the heavy looker of their yoke- felloes , the abhorred infamy they bring upon their owne names, families, kindred, burials, pofteri= tie. Oh how they fpurne at with a vile, difdainefull con- tempt, Pleafures, Riches Honours, Crownes, Kingdomes, Worldsofgold, any thing, every thing, as miferable com- forters ! Nay it is fo ¡tinging, that they will rather venture upon that other Hell, to which they are potting in a Coffin of blond, a thoufand thoufand times more horrible, than endure it any longer. If fenfe then of divine indignation, 'taking fecret vengeance upon the guilty confcience of an impenitent Rebell, puts him as it were, intohellifh flames above ground; what an heaven upon earrh is a Tweet fee- ling of Gods reconciled face, and his everlafting mercies, through Chrift, fealed and fet on by the holy Ghoft, and te- ilimony ofa good confcience ? And how delicioufly doth an humble foule, fo honouredwith a foretafte and firft fruits as it were, ofeternall joyes , grafpe theLord Iefus in his Ordi- nances,and blisfully funne it feífe in the love and light ofHis countenance ? 2. The praftice of the prophane in their infatiable reí}- leffe purfuite of falfe jóyes, and painefull pleafures which at beft are but as crackling oftbornes under epot, and flafhes of lightningbefore everlafling fire. They hunt after themeven intohell, and light a candleat the Devil! for lightfomenefl-e- ofheart ttbyhauntingAle- houfes,,Tavernes,, Brothel-houfes,,. Play-
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