· - ~44 • . , . 'l'he Trial and_ Sn.. ~0 Hezekeah, 1s hke to fwallow htm up, when dipped in the lower Hell, and C(\vered with the .Apprehenfion of Wrath. 0 fweet 7ifus !w.hat a. Mercy that thou fwa11owedft up afl Belts to Believers, and calmedft the Sea of Hell~ " Ufo Ift. IF irl J uftification Sins be blotted out., cafl in the :IJeplots of the Sea, and removed1 as if they never had been, the ftate of J uftificarion muff be a Condition of found Bldfednefsl the moft defireable Life in the World, Rom. iv. 6. Evm as qjavid ~Jfo defcribed the 21/effednefs of the ]/(an, ·unto ~whom God imputr!th Righteoufoefi without Works. i. 21/effid ate they whofi Iniquities are forgiven, and whqfe fins are covered~ :For confider, I. What an AClof Grace it ~sin a Prince to tak.e a condemned Mafefat!or from under the Ax, the Rack, the Whell, and fo many lluurs Torture, before he end his miferable Life.. Or, :z.. Suppofe he were condemned to be tortured 1:eifurely, and his Life continued and prorogated, that Bones,. Sinews, Lungs, Joints might be -pained for twenty or thirty Years, fo much of his Flefh cut off ewry Day, fu<rh a Bone broken,, and by Art ,the ·Bone ,cured again, and the F'Iefu reftored, ihat he might, for thirty Years Space, every Day be dying, and yet neV<;"t di~. Or, 3~ Imagine a Man could be kept alive in Torment" in this Cafe from_Sleep, Eafe, Food1 Clothing, 5 oo Years1 or a I ooo Years, and boiling all the Ti~e in a Cauldron full of melted J_,ead; and• fay the Soul rould dwell in a 13ody under the Rack, the 'Wheel~ the Lafhes a~1d Swurges of' Scorpions, and Whips of Iron, the Man bleeding, crying in the AB: of dying for Pain, gn~wing his Tongue for ten hundred Xears' : N"ow, fuppofe a
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