Fxceeding Sinfulnef ofSin. 375 is worfe than anyhoufe haunted by devils : For, Sin is worfe a great deal, than the meer prefence ofthe devil. Iremember I have read of a Ty- rant, oneMaxenfus in Hetrufia, he invented this torment toput men to-death, he would havea deadmans Carkafs tyed about their bodies and fo let them go wherefoever he would, but he frill carried thedeadCarkafs about him, and at length the french putthem to death this was his Tyrany. If you íhould have adeadman or woman tied about your bodies; may be the face of a dead man is hidious to you, but if they Ihould be tied about you, fo that whenyou lie inbed, and when you rife, when you fit at meat, it Ihould beal waies with you,and you Ihould in- dure the fink and putrefaftion; what a fore e- vil would this be ? nowif in the prefence of a dead Carkafs there is fo much evil, than in the prefence of thedevil there is much more. Now fin, anyonefin, tied dole to your hearts, that youcarry about with you, wherefoeveryougo; know there is in that a greater evil uponyou, than if a dead Carkafs Mould be tied to you; yea, than ifthedevil fhould haunt you wherefo- ever you go : becaufe theprefence ofthedevil, is not fomuch,as turningofthefoulsofmenand women into the nature of the devil ; and ma- king the Souls of men and women fo like to him. 4444444A 44444 I>I u y CHAP.
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