Exceeding Sinfulnefi of sin. 395 "all theevil ofany affliCtion, Hence thenwefee that the woundsanátrouble ofConfcienceforfrn, certainly it k no melancholly conceit, it knot a f =ncy or imagina lion, as many in the worldthink of it. Many men havetvery flight thoughts about the trouble of Confcience for fin; and when they hear ofmen or women troubled for theirfin, they think, it is nothing but melancholly, or temptation, or ¡fome kindof frenzy, or madnefs, or folly, or 'weaknefs offpirit, or timeroufnefs Thefe be :the thoughts men haveof trouble ofeonfcience, and according to their thoughts that they have of its fuch are their Cures that they feek for it. I fpake fomwhat ofit in the laft Chapter : but now certainly, ifthere things be true, as verily they are theTruths ofGod that have been deli-' vered concerning the evil of fin; then we are not to wonder at men and women that have troubles -of eonfcience for fin. I (hewed by force examples, that trouble of' eonfcience was not melancholly ; efpecially in the example of, Chtift himfelf, that had theburden offm, trou- bles offpirit; I cannot fo properly cal it trouble ofconfcience, for there is a fubl}antial diffe- rencebetween the wrathupon his foul that he felt, and the wrath ofGod that others feel up- on their confciences; but in e#fe&,the wrathof God is' the fame, that was upon him by imputa- tion of fin.; and upon others by reafon of their own properguilt : and it was not melancholli-. nefs in him, nor in David, as I"fhewed in the Jail Chapter. Now toproceed.' Therebe two things `I de- fire to proceed in : And Fier,
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