IUD 9 sRepentancem had this horror and trouble of confciencep Their eftate for all that may be very good ;for Ì this vexation is not abfolutely needful', although humiliation is; wherefore if thou haft it not, feeke not after it ; for God ufeth many meanes : yet thou mayeft take hence occafion the more to try thine eftate. 41'4' Whether comes this horror from mellanchol- ly, or how (hall wee difcerne it from naellan. cholly e If thou apprehend finne and the wrath of God, then it is horror of confcienee ; for when the fa- culty is pitched upon the right objeCt,to wit,f nne; then it's no mellancholly ;but in horror the con- fcience is pitched upon the right object, yiz.finne; for that is the proper object of the confcience: As for melancholly, that is not griefe,but extendeth griefe;as varnifh is not colour, but doth extend the colour. Indeed melancholly may bee ioyned I with it,and draw it forth, but it comes not wholly fromthat, but from Tome other inward principle. As the fatnefl'e of the foyle may bring forth the corne the fooner, but yet that is not the caufe there- of, but the route chat it hash. Againe I anfwer., that all difeafes are healed by their contraries; If that this were melancholly, then might it be healed by merry company, which is the contrary unto it ; but if it be the horror of confcience, then mull it onely be .healed by the ap- prehenfion of Gods love in Itfus Chrift. . e t.5 Whether may it befall the childe of God ro bee
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=