386 The Evil of Evils, or the andexcellent good friends, ofhealthful bodies, in good trades, all well about them ; and yet mightily troubled for fin. yea, perhaps force that to the viewofthe world lived very civilly, yet had in fecret beenguiltyof Tome notorious profanecourfe, and yet whenGod (hall but fet- tleanyone fin upon their hearts, and trouble their Confciennes for any one fin ; they could not bear thehorror of theirConfcience for this one fin. Well, this I have heard of the evil of fin, tells me i have had ,miflaken thoughts a- bout it ; Ithought all was melanchollinefs, and . even madnefs, and the Phyfitian mull be fent and merry company fent for, becaufe men and women have fuchpoor and meanapprehen Cons of the evil of fn. and thereforewhen a- ny are troubled in Confcience for Sin, Oh then get him into merrycompany,get apair ofcards, make them play a'fit of Mufick, go to fomebu fnefs in the world, put themfelves upon bufi-' nefs, one thing or other, drink down their !. trouble, play down theirtrouble, thus many have flight thoughts of troubleofConfcience And therefore when in their Children, they cry out, Oh j myChild will certainly run mad, is grownmad; many carnalmen and womenwhen theirChildren begin to thinkof fin, they think, verilie they begin torun mad : I remember in theLlorie of Erancis spira,he faith thus(becaufe his friends thought it a kind of Frenzie, and that it was not troubleofConfcience. for fin.) Oh faith he to his friends, Z mould toGodit were Fren- zie, eitherfeignedor real ; ifit werefeignedFrenzie, then
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