27.8 The Jnf ülne/f e of Sinnee of his motirins, quenching of his fpirit, rebelling againg grace ? I f every vaine word bee a flame that can kin- dle the hie of H.11 about mine Bares, O what vollies of brimttone, what mountaines of wrath will be darted'up= ny-; my wretched foule, for tearing the glorious and terri- ble Name of the Gt eat God w itla my curfed oathes, my crimson and fiery execrations ? What will becom of ¡lin- king, dirty, carrion communication, of lyes and..fcornes, and railings and bitterneffe, the perfecutions, adulteries, and murthers of the tongue, when but the ídlenef e and unprofitableneffe of the tongue is not able to endure this. confuming fire ? 3. If one great fin, nay one fmall fin.bee fo full of life,as not all the ftrength, nay not all the deaths or anni- hilations of all the Angels in heaven could have expiated, O how (hall I hand before an army of firms ? So many, which I know of my felfe,fwarmes of thoughts, (eames of lulls, throngs of finfull words, lands of evill aó ions every one as heavie and as great as a mountaine, able to take up if they were put into bodies all the vaff chafma betweene earth and Heaven, and fill all the fpaces of na- ture with darkeneffe and confufion ? and how infinite more fecret ones are there, which I know not by my felfe ? How many Atomes and iireames of duff doth a bcame of the Sun thining into a roome diícover,which by any other light were before unperceptible? How many finfull fecrets are there in my-heart, which though the light of mine owne Confcience cannot discover, are yet written in Gods account, and Pealed among} bis trea- lures, and !hail at the day of the revelation of all things produc'd and mulier'd up again} me, like fo many Li ons and Devils to five upon me ? Fourth'y, if the number of them can thus amaze, O what (hall die roore of them doe ? Committed out of i iorance in the midlt of light ; out of knowledge againft the evidence of conlciencc ; out of prefumption and tore- flailing
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