78 P 116. 15, Mat 27 5. Treatife c fConfcience. Neither do they fo much queflion this as their faith to beleive it ; faying, Lord help our unbelief, d. Gods children have good realon to do fo, and to check their own hearts when ever they do otherwife.bl hen ever any difiurfi cometh,they fhouldcheck it down, again : when ever any fear arifeth, they fhoud fay, what ? Ifear death? Which is a thingfo precious ? Precious in thefight ofthe Lord is the deathofhis Saints. Is death precious, andfhall Ibe fo vain as tofear it ? Thus ye fee an anfwer to the u rtiqueftion, Whetherevery child ofGod that hath true peace ofconfcience canbe delirous to die. ir. Quell'. Whether a wicked man that hath no peace of confcience may not be defìrous to die too ? Anfzv. r. Thehot'. tour of confcience may make a. wicked mandeGrous to die. He may have fo much horrour of confcience as that he may think certainly hell cannot be worfe : (Hell is infinitely worfe ; but he may not think fo.) Thus judas was deGrous to die, whenhe went and hanged himfelf : Thus many in defpair do make away themfelves, I confelîe fome in defpair may be fearful! to die:as Cainwas fearfull to die; it was fear of death made him fpeak thus untoaod,It (hall come topage that every one thatfindeth me fallflay me, Gen. 4. 14. The reafon was, becaufe, thoughhe were in defpair, yet he was not fo fenfible of his horrour as Judas was : for Cain could go and build for all this, and train up his children in mufick and the like for all this; but Judas was in a cafe more fenGble of his mifery. 2. Dolour. of pain may make a wicked man delire to die. 7 hus it was with Saul: Saul had received his deaths wound and was in molt grievous paine: he could not die prefently, neither could he live ; but lying in very great pain between both, deliired the Amalakite to ftand upon him and flay him,2Sam. i o 9. (though Ofsander think the Amalekite lyed unto David to curry favour with him ; but ?o. fcphui and others think he fpake the truth.) Sure it is, that ma- ny wickedwretches having no peace of confcience to fweeten and allay their torments, have been deGrous to die : nay fume have battened their own death. 3, Malecontentednef e, and fhaane, and difappointment of their aims may all() make wick- ed
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