372 The Soule,' effeEfntall calling to Chrift. not be taken for a jayle-bird, thou art alhamedof thefe : wert thou but awitch, or a traitour, or a mancondemned, wouldft thou not be afhamed ? Ladit thou but reafon in thee, thy foule would fluke at it, and fay, Oh wretch that I am, that I fhould live to bring fuckdifcredit uponmy felfe, and all good men : Oh goe thy way, and looke into thy heart, and fay, I may thanke an unbe- leeving heart tor all thefe,ifI had not had anun- beleevingheart, I had not beene overtakenwith any of all thefe finnes, nor dfhonoured God by this finne, as I have done : unbeleefe is the au- thourof all,and therefore to behated more than all:I would faine have people looke inward; thou haft ftollen fach a thing from filch a man, and thou art afhamed of it; now infidelity can rob God of his honour, and by this finne thou haft refuted the LordJefus ,Chrift ; and thus dog thy owne heart ever and anon, and when thou has done fo, be earneft with the Lord, to take thefe curledcorruptions from thee, figh efpecially un. der this finne, and labour above all tobe freed from this finne, and thenall the reft will dye and decay in thee. I would havea poore unbeleever doe as the prifoners doe inNew-gate ; what la- mentablecries will theyutter, laying, good your worfhip, remember the mifertes ofpoore prifo. ners; good Gentleman (pare a farthing to the wants ofpoore prifoners : fo thou art ihut up in unbeleefe, therefore looke out from the gates of hell, and fromunder thebarres of infidelity, and crie,that God would lookeon thee inmercy, and fpate
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