270 The ill troubled~onfcience. ~----~------------------------~' Cap.18~Gods ·merc!e; As Tamar faid to Amnon, .. ~ · .. this latter evil in putting me away is worfe ~ Sam. •3· then the former. This was Cainr cafe, I am 1 1 6 1 • J,r;, [entenced, I mufr be damned; I am accur(ed, I 1 auejpe· ilb · G d'h h · r · ratio qu..:£ in muu ~ar It ; o. at no mercze wrme, and hac vita noue w.tll I ask him. Out he goes fi·om the tollit cm· Prefence of God, full of black defpair, his nem fPem~ countenance is caft down, and he that was– qu£tf: ~~1 of late too ftout to fpeak to his brother ;;p oriri, Abel, is now as ftout and full en, he will not non tantum once open his mouth to fpeak to God for a tft ,£rumpardon. So likewife Judar confeffed, re– noJ:, ~ pented, refrore<il, but dcfpairing of merde mo,efle mafi k . h . 14 ,[d. & neve~once went to pea Wit Chrift to finde 'lJitio[e. mere1e. So alfo Magm. whom Peter bade Ames. Repent.and pray, then perhaps his fin might have been forgiven him. Hee never made one Praier, or io much as once fet upon the work of Repentance. This is trouble of Confcience that Hell is full ef. . This the ruofi defperate tremble in the world, when one !ball cafi himfdfaway wilfupy,and fay, This evil is of the Lord, :2 King 6. 33. why Jbould Iwait,or ·t;ray,grrepent, or believe,orre.ild, J h .. 8 or hear, &cf This is to forfa~ our ownmer– ona "'' • .cie. A childe of God may fometimes bee overwhelmed with troubles, but he is mu driven to God thereby 3 not from God : H~ ~ Cor.4.8. faith, I am diftrdfed on every fide, yet I am not in dejpair: To defl!air I have caufe in re– fpect of myowndefert ; To delpair I can ne- · ver have caufe in refpect of God1 mercie, and Chrijl1Redemption. In difrrefs I am, in Hell f am
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