512 The Evil ofEvils, Or the finful Creatures, fenfible enoughoftheir niifery byaflli&ion; Suppofe thou wert quite`dliver ed from outward miferie, and thou hadett an Eftate given thee to live bravely, and in as peat pomp as any Gentleman or Knight ; fo that thou that wert in great beggery and mifery, now comeft}tolive like a manoffafhion: wont- deft not thou think it awoful evil for thee,upon a fudden to be put in the fame beggery thou wert in before, in rags, and beggeif for a far- thing ? Ifnow thyEftate be changed, and thou rideft inthy Coach,andhaft all thrheart can de- defire, wouldeft not thou account it a woful condition to be prefentlyput in that woful beg- gery and penury thou wert in before ? This would fink thy heart. Know, the conimifiion ofany one fn, is a greater mifery than if there {houldbe fuchachange of thy Eftate ; if God íhould give thee a heart to turn from thy fin, perhaps thine affliaion might be taken away, for it's a punifhment for fin , and as you know David faith, I have beenyong, and now am old, yet never taw I the Righteous forfaken, and his feed begging their bread. And truly that he hath laid, I verily beleeve mote ofyoumay fay, That in all your lives younever fawone, that youhadgood evidence of, tobe trulygod- ly and gracious, to goup anddown as our com- mon beggers in that woful perplexity. I do not fay but godly righteous men may be inwant and inneed, but formypart 1 never knew any god- ly and righteous, but one way or-other , 'God flirredup force to Releive them : Or if they have
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