atiluw fed). X59. Land That the dead thould be in every facul- ty, the lulls every - where croaking, even in the Kings Chamber, in the noble faculties of Rea - fon and Will, and all the ftreams of the Heart, the Thoughts, Withes, Refolves, Choices, Deliires, and Delights there, Ihould be (mit- ten and turned into bloody Iniquity,is an ama- 7ing conlìderation; That a Rational Creature, with an Immortal fpark in his bofom, whole natural inflin& is after Happinefs, Ihould yet without a new Creation, not be able fo much as by a holy thought to afpire after the great unfpeakable bleffednefs in the Gofpel, or to give a ferious look towards the pure undefiled Religion leading thither; and after he is new made byGrace, that yet there Ihould be a black fountain within ready to flow out at every fenfe, taint every work, and derive a damp, a deadnefs, a wretched indífpofednefs upon all his holy things,is an aflonifhing thought;That the holieft Man on Earth, who mourn and hs over the horrible Wickedncffes abroad, ould be forced to lament at home ; and fay, are is aliq.id int;c, fomewhat in my own Art anfwering to all thefe, were 'I but di- mtilfits libero arbitrio, left to my own fell, I Might fall into 7on.zhs pet againft the Great God ; or roll in Davidt Adultery and Blood ; or,Perer -like, deny my Lord, and do it curling and damning of my felfas the Original imports ; or turn a Julian, a total final Apoflate, and dart up my bloody blafplemies againft Hea- 'ven at my dying hour; is wowdetfully prodigi. S a ouS,
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