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116.
15,
Mat
27
5.
Treatife
c
f
Conf
cience.
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
?
I
fear
death?
Which
is
a thingfo
precious
?
Precious in
the
fight
of
the
Lord
is
the death
of
his
Saints.
Is
death precious,
andfhall
I
be
fo
vain
as to
fear
it
?
Thus ye
fee
an
anfwer
to the
u
rtiqueftion, Whether
every
child
of
God that
hath
true
peace
of
confcience
can
be
delirous
to
die.
ir.
Quell'.
Whether
a
wicked man
that
hath no
peace
of
confcience may
not
be
defìrous
to
die
too
?
Anfzv.
r.
The
hot'.
tour of
confcience
may make
a.
wicked man
deGrous
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, when
he
went
and
hanged himfelf
:
Thus many
in
defpair
do
make away
themfelves,
I
confelîe
fome
in
defpair may
be
fearful!
to
die:as
Cain
was
fearfull
to die;
it
was
fear of death
made
him
fpeak
thus
unto
aod,
It
(hall
come to
page
that
every
one
that
findeth
me
fall
flay
me,
Gen.
4.
14. The reafon was, becaufe,
though
he
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
wicked
wretches
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