246 A Box of precious Ointment : Or, is no mifchief to foul mifchief, fo there is no murder to foul :murder, and yet in this murder had Paul a hand. 'Tis- fad to compel a man to bear a burden beyond his firength, to lye in chains; to forfake his own countrey, &c. but 'Lis infinitely more fad, to compel a man to fin, to the leaf} fin ; but faddeit of all to compel a man to biafpheme, And yet this I did, f ayes P,mi, &c. Seventhly, He yet further aggravates his fin by his mad - nefs, by his exceeding madnefs againtt the Saints, in thofe words ; And I was exceedingly 771,74 aa,linfi them. He was mad with rage and wrath, he was exceedingly mad ,with pafsion and fury atY.ainii the dear Saint's of God ; mad men think madly, and Mad men fpeak Madly, and mad men aft madly again!} thOfe they are mad with ; and fo did he againfl the Saints. The Alcoran faith, That God created the Angels of - light, --and-the Devils of the flame. Certainly, as God's , children are children of the light, fo Satan's children are fu -1 b - 1 rious children, wrathful children, children of the fame, children of madnefs ; and fuch a one was Paul, &c. Eighthly and hilly, /did perferste them to fir,inge Cities ; 'them I did not kill I did fcatter,- I forced them to leave-both houfe and home ; them whom God had joyned together, I. put afunder ; I made the husband 'run one way, and: the wife and children another way, and all of them glad to hide their heads in a corner.And thus you fee, that true penitents in the confefsion of their fins, do cloath their fins with the highefll aggravations imaginable. A penitent in his confefsion of fin cryes out,: 01 the fparing mercies, the preventing mercies, the faccouring mercies, the fupporting mercies the renewed mercies, the delivering mercies that I have with a high hand finned againfl. 0, that clear light 1 0, that free love!. 0, that Gofpel.grace ! 0, thofe bowels of mercy that I have finned againfl 1 0, the fatherly correaions, the dreadful warnins, the high refolutions, the ferious protertations, the . frequent vows and promifes that I have clefperately finned againft 1; 0, the - checks of confcience,' the rebukes of con- - fcience
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