The mi[er}' Dffoch • Cap.2 2. when diGrefs and anguifh comes to take hold -~- _ ofthem, hO\Vdo they cry out! Oh Confcience! .CoTJfcience ! Oh that I had~hearkened toCon- . fcience! as;it faid ofRich Cr£/iH, who glo– rying in his wealth, Solon toldhim that no ~an could reckon himfelf ha~py t!ll he faw hts end, Cr.efur regarded not till betng over– come by CJrur; and condemned tobe burnt todeath ; then he remembred what Salonhad (aid ~o him, and in the fire he cryed out, Oh Solon! Solon! being asked what he meant, he told themnow he thought ofSolon1 words and found them true, and repented that he had made no more ufe ~f them when tiiilc '· was. 3· It fpeaks terror to fitch as have an un– tvaktned, unfenfible, and fleepy Confcience, no Letbargie [o dangerous, and near to death--.. Gelidtt eft tjllafi mertH imago. The Lethargick..., fleepy, fiupid ~onfciencc: is the mofl: bopeleffe Confcience that can be. · The dumb, deaf, filent, fpeechlelfe, bedrid Con• fcience is the moft defperate difeafe in the 1 world. The Phyfitian cures the Lethargy br a feaver if he can caft his patient into ont", and let me tell thee, it is better God !hould caft thee into ahot butning fit1Ver ofConfci– cnceby any afhiCt:ion or horror whatfoever, then that thou lhouldeft go-fleeping and [no– ring to Hell. It is not a more certaine token ofdeath approaching to the body,whenyou fee fpeech gone, eyes fet in the head, breath failing, feeling loft, pulfe ftoppirig, excre– ments coming away unawares, that fuc~a one
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