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A
freat
f
of
Gonfcience.
79
ed
men defirous
to
die,
and,if
death come
not
loon
enough
of
it
felf, to
difpatch
away themfelves
with
cruel
felf
murder. Thus
it
was with
Achitophel:
when
he
fa
w
hiscounfel
was
not follow-
ed
he
haltered
himfelt
:
He had
no peace
ofcon!cience
to
corn
fort
him
againff
all his
dumps
and
difcontents
;
and
therefore
he was
defirous
to
die,
4. Wicked
men, being vexed
at
fòme-
thing
for
the
prefent,
may
feem
to
be
defirous
to
die and
yet
if
death
fhould come
indeed,
they
fhould
be
of
another
mind,
and
be
cootent
death fhould
be
further
off.
Nay,
Jonas
(
that
ftrange
man
of
a
good
man)
O for
a
fit
he
would
be
dying
yea
that
he
would, Lord take
my
life
from
me
:
for
it
is
better
for
me
to
die
then
to
live.
I
fuppofe
if God
had
taken
him
at
his
word,
he could have wifhed his
words
had
been in
again.Bu
thus
it
is
often
in
the mouthes
of
wicked
people
;
I
would
I
were dead
;
and,
I
would
1
were
out
of
the
world:
not for
any peace
of
con
-
fcience
they have,
nor for
any
delire
of
death
but onely for
a
momentany pang.
If
they
were
to
die
indeed,
they would
be
loth
enough
to
it Like the
man
in
the
Fable
:
who being wea-
ried
with
his
burden
of
ltiks,
lay
down
and called
for death;
but
when
death
came
indeed
to
take him,
and faid, What
¡ball
I
do,
man?
thou
calleft me
:
I
pray
thee,
faid
he,
help
me
up
with
my
burden
offtic/es.
When
he was
to
die
indeed, then
he
would ra-
ther
have
his
own
wearifome burden.
It
is
but
a
fable
;
but this
is
the fafhion
of
many
.
5.
When
wicked
men
are
defirous
to
die
indeed
fometimes
not out
of
difcontent
or
any
Inch like re a-
ion, yet it
connot
be
out
of
any
true
peace
of
confcierce
:
They
may go away like lambs,
as
we
fay
;
but
it
is
in
a
fools
paradife,
It
may
whilefl they
lived
they
thought
to
go
to
heaven
;
but
when
they dy,
then
all
their
thoughts perifh,
as
the Pfalmilt Ipeak-
eth
in
another
cafe.
To
return therefore
where
we
left
;
O
beloved,
is
there
any
of
you
that
want the
peace
of
a
good
confcience
?
and
do
ye
know
what
you want?
what
a
great
benefit and bleffing?
That
ye
may
fee
this, and
fully
know
it,
and
by
knowing
it
carnally
dere
it, confider,
Firft,
that
it
is
the
very
head
of
all
comforts.
A
worthy
Di-
vine
z
Sam,
I7,
Z
Z.
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