372' MettfJ! to ejcApe abadConfcience. - How foon w~re all Peters good purpo1es, promifes, Proteftations forgotten and laid / a.fide , he being once ingaged among ill company ! They ~11 fpeak againfi cm-ift~ he refolveth not to ftand up one againfi fo many to fpeak in his defence. They deny him, hedeFJieJ him; th(y fwear he[wearJ? they cur(e, hecurfeth as fa£1:. How foon cloth the thiefin the candle conftm1e it? How faft do ldfe fins not thrown out vaftare Confcientiam, and make it flare out prefently? PeterJ faint denial firfr time, fetcheth out an Oath next time to back it; then he that hath once paw- 1 nt:d hi/s Faith to hell by a falfe oath, may . ~1ow fell his Mafter for nothing, and himfelf for nought. Peter cafis offfear,he cuts offhis . own legs, & drinketh darnmage. Lie!Swear 1 Curfe ! Lord it i1 time for the CfJcftto crnw,and · for thee to look, and for Peter to be gone. · Oh look to beginnings, caft ~ut (as PhaExo. 1.16, raoh did the young Children ) motions to fin when they arefirfl burn : Shun occafions: Come not nigh unto her corner : Stick at a thrtad, and a Latchet. , There are more ill husbands undone ( as I f.1id before ) by loife of time neglecting their callings,bya littleJleep, and a little:f{um~ her, by flight rxpences, now a penuy and then a penny, then by a hundred pound at a. clap: thefe flnk fiiddenly, none pittyiag them;the other fall at length,butbydegrees, ' none obferving them. - B~rnartl tels us how infenfibly bydegrees_ degrees
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