290 The Evil of Evils Or the once the foul is reconciled to God and finpar- doned,all Creatures be at P,tacewith you you are then in League with all the Creatnres. We ['could account it an evil condition to be in fuch a place whereall the men in the Nation areour Enemies, and ftand .ready to murder : Cer tainly all the inners in the world are in the middeft of the Creatures of Gcd that (land rea- dy armed with GODS wrath againft them. Eence it is, That when once God inlightens ( 1 befeech youobferve it ) theConfcience ofa (inner, he feareth every thing 5 7he wickedflié, when none pinfiseth them. t is very obfvrvablc of Cain, alter he hadcommitted that finof flaying his Brother, then fah cain, Every one that meets me,willflayme: Who w is there then in theworld? Nobody but his Father and Mother : and yet every onethat meets him will flay him, he was afraid ofevery thing,and every on2becaufe he had finned againft theLord. So every inlighten- edConfcience that knows what finmeans, when he comes tohave Confcience awakened, they beafraidofevery thing: iftherebe thundrings, & lightenings, & forms, & tempefts, it fees the wrath ofGod in this Storm andTempeft,Thun- der and Lightening 5 any firs abroad in the world be but as Meffengers of Gods wrath a- gainft me, faith the awakened Confcience: This is the miferyof a finnei; and thenhow much is the evil of Sin greater thanAftliaion ! CHAP.
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