112, A Treatife of the AffefEions. C.hrifl be in thee yea or no? what if I fhould die now? have I evidences for Heaven yea or no ? The Scripture faies thus and thus, fo and lò they mull i ve that look to be 'fa- vet'', do I live fo ? God (ayes, fuch and loch fhall be damn - ed, namely, all that live in any known fin ; God cannot lie ; I Is there never a fin I know I live in ? poor woful foul, thy carnal affections have not fuffered thee to think ferioufly' of thefe things fince thou wert born. May be now and then thou haft tome loofe thoughts of Tome fuch matters, ¡hag- ling thoughts, glancing, running thoughts of thy foul, and of heaven, and of death,but thou never doll ferioufly think of them. No, thine earthly affections doe provoke thy thoughts otherwife, thy affeiions have fuch influence in- to thy thoughts, that Macariuscals them affeflions. Is not this then a pitiful condition to let our affec`lions here be- low ? to be drawn away from thinking ferioufly of our I fouls; they drive thee to hell, and will not permit thee to think ferioufly whither thou goefl till thou art ti;ere, O grievous condition ! will a prifoner that is condemned to be hanged to morrow, be thinking how he may get him new clothes, and a new fuit ? will he be thinking how he may purchafe ? how he may have a good (upper ? If he be think- ingon fuch things when he (hall be hanged to morrow for all that he knows ; he is lure he is condemned, and the gal- lows is built, and the halter is provided, and if he get not a pardon, it is certain he fhall be executed, and he knows not yet whether ever he (hall get it; may be he may if he Peek hard, if he now be thinking of pleafures and profits, and the like, when his life lies at the flake, you will fay, he is wofully affelled with thefe things: and wilt thou be fo affeé ed with the things of this life, when thou mayft be in hell to morrow? thou art fure the fentence of damna- tion is upon thee yet, and thou fhait furely be damned be- ing as thou art ; wilt thou I fay be thinking of eating, and drinking, and playing, and buying, and felling, and trading, and the like? alas ! thou art yet but a. damned man? Take Ne
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