qoo The Evil ofEvils,nr the fcienceare the beginningsof the fecond death. Ube Soul ofMan is a Subjeaof more large Ca- pacity for torments than the hods, can be : Now the principal way that God hath to torment the Soul, that we know of, inHell it felf, it is by the horrors and woundsof Confcience. I remem- ber therefore it was theSpeech ofFrancis Spira, faith he, I feel inme thewrathofGoci,as the torments o Hell; and hewas not mifiaken, for they be the beginnings of the torments of Hell : and thereforeGod manytimes, to keep men from berg (wallowed up in thofe torments,he makes them feel thefe torments, they have Tome fparks ofthefe tormentsofHell upon their fouls now, that they may be delivered from the flames of Hell to all Eternity. Troubles of Confcience for fin, is nothing elfe, but Gods let- ting out force fparks of Hell upon the Soul. Nowwhat amifiake is this, Thou thinkefi this but melancholly, when the truth is-it is nothing elfebut thefparks ofHell upon the foul. This is theSecond. Thirdly, Thou thinkefi this a melancholly conceit : Certainly, It k impoble for filch a man or woman, ever, fo long rfrs they thus continue, to pr xe Chrifi, or love Chrfi : 1 fay, whofoever thou art that bath fuch conceits, if this abide in thee, I dare as from the Lord charge thee, That thou didefi never yet in all thy lifeprize Jefus loveJefusChaifi. ilut hew cloth this appear? Thus : Thou didefi never prize Chrifi, and love Chrift aright, if thou haft this conceit, becuufe.
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