8 'up As Repentance. plaining of their weakneffe , when as they will not labour to keepe a good confcience it is all one as if a fluggard fhould complaine of his poverty or an idle fcholler fhould complaine of his ignorance. Be exhorted therefore to prize the peace of confci- ence, fpend the chiefefl of your cares for it ; what if you lofe fame few other things , fo you get 'that, they are all nothing in companfonof that; but the common fafhion now is tofpende buta little time in fuch, things as thefe are , and fo thinke that enough too. This fheweth us the miferable conditionofthole that (}ií1 lye in their finnes , it may be they thinke the burden thereof to be light , and account it not; but when the burden of their finnes (hall belayed upon them , they will finde it to be intolerable;now while the burthen lyes not on their fhoulders they feele it not, but when God (hall once fay, Let him beare the burden of his finnes , we (hall finde them to be unfuppor.table , even able to preffe us downe to hell , as here they did ludau, The common fa- fhion of men is not to regard what finne they runne into for the efcaping of f ome outward crofl'e, think- ing that to be the greater , but they (hall one day, to their cold, finde the contrary that thefe outward punifhments and loffes are nothing in comparifon to the inward; that is outward cold and beate is no- thing to the inward ; the heate in fummer is nothing to the beate of the leaver ; fo that thefe outward croffes are but as the heate in fummer ; inward , like the beate of the feaver. But it's a wonderful! thing to
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