THE
CARNALL
PROFESSOR
.
ROM:
8.
V.
13.
For
if
yee
live
after
the
flesh
ye
shall
die
,
but
if
through
the
Spirit
,
ye
mortifie
the
deeds
of
the
body
,
yee
shall
live
.
IN
the
Chapter
going
before
,
the
Apostle
having
delivered
the
double
use
of
the
Law
:
first
,
the
proper
use
to
shew
men
the
way
to
live
,
if
in
case
they
were
able
to
fulfill
and
keepe
it
:
Secondly
,
the
accidentall
use
by
reason
of
Sinne
,
which
is
imployed
in
condemning
us
,
by
discovery
of
our
transgression
,
to
comfort
the
distressed
heart
of
a
poore
sinner
:
hee
describeth
in
the
latter
end
of
the
former
Chapter
a
speciall
meanes
to
shun
this
inevitable
danger
;
namely
,
the
righteousnes
,
obedience
,
and
sufferings
of
Christ
:
And
in
this
Chapter
further
enlargeth
the
same
by
way
of
confirmation
unto
the
5.
verse
.
After
which
lest
it
might
bee
thought
that
a
Christian
may
live
as
hee
list
,
being
freed
from
sinne
by
the
merits
of
Christs
death
,
or
that
a
profane
person
should
claime
any
interest
in
that
blessed
sacrifice
of
Christ
,
he
further
proveth
by
many
pregnant
reasons
,
that
every
Christian
ought
to
endeavour
after
holines
,
that
thereby
hee
may
prove
himselfe
to
be
truly
ingrafted
into
Christ
,
by
participating
of
the
fruit
of
his
Spirit
,
and
that
hee
is
in
deed
(
and
not
in
word
only
)
a
true
Christian
by
his
unblameable
life
and
conversation
,
as
the
goldsmith
is
knowne
by
his
costly
peeces
,
or
any
mechanicall
artificer
by
the
works
which
his
hands
accomplish
.
In
the
verse
I
have
read
unto
you
,
the
Apostle
concludeth
very
effectually
amongst
the
rest
of
his
arguments
,
that
wee
must
live
according
to
the
spirit
,
and
not
according
to
the
flesh
;
seeing
the
one
designeth
and
noteth
unto
us
life
,
the
other
death
,
both
most
infallible
tokens
of
our
future
estate
and
condition
:
So
that
if
any
man
or
woman
be
desirous
to
know
what
shall
betide
them
after
this
life
,
If
any
be
desirous
to
know
even
the
secrets
of
God
▪
I
mean
his
determination
as
touching
themselves
,
their
wives
,
their
children
,
friends
or
foes
after
death
,
let
them
resort
to
the
Holy
Ghost
speaking
in
this
place
,
and
converse
with
their
owne
hearts
,
if
they
finde
the
quickning
spirit
but
as
a
lively
sparke
raked
up
amongst
the
great
heap
of
their
owne
corruptions
,
they
shall
assuredly
live
for
ever
.
If
they
find
onely
meere
flesh
and
blood
to
be
their
guide
,
then
wo
to
them
,
they
are
in
the
state
of
Castawayes
and
lost
creatures
,
be
they
Prince
or
Peere
▪
noble
or
ignoble
,
rich
or
poore
,
there
is
no
difference
nor
exception
with
God
;
and
therefore
they
ought
speedily
to
sue
for
their
deliverance
through
favour
by
the
Sonne
of
God
,
lest
death
prevent
them
to
their
everlasting
misery
.
But
it
may
be
these
titles
of
Flesh
and
Spirit
are
unknowne
,
or
at
least
not
observed
through
the
subtlety
of
Sathan
,
thickning
the
eye
of
dexter
and
right
discerning
;
&
therefore
that
we
may
throughly
kenne
the
flesh
in
despight
of
the
flesh
,
and
judge
in
the
spirit
of
the
spirit
,
let
us
for
our
furtherance
herein
consider
these
sixe
profitable
observations
.
-
1.
What
Flesh
is
.
-
2.
What
it
is
to
live
in
the
flesh
.
-
3.
What
that
death
is
▪
which
is
here
threatned
as
a
just
punishment
to
such
as
live
after
the
flesh
.
-
4.
What
the
Spirit
is
.
-
5.
What
it
is
to
mortifie
the
deeds
of
the
flesh
.
-
6.
What
is
meant
when
he
saith
they
shal
loue
.
1.
The
word
[
Flesh
]
is
sometimes
taken
for
the
body
,
as
2
Cor.
7.
1.
Let
us
clense
our selves
from
all
filthinesse
of
the
flesh
and
spirit
;
that
is
,
of
soule
and
body
.
2.
For
the
humane
nature
of
Christ
,
who
was
put
to
death
concerning
the
flesh
.
3.
For
this
present
life
,
If
thou
take
a
wife
thou
sinnest
not
,
neverthelesse
such
shal
have
trouble
in
the
flesh
.
4.
For
the
outward
aspect
and
appearance
,
Yee
know
how
through
the
infirmitie
of
the
flesh
I
preached
the
Gospell
.
5.
For
the
ordinary
course
of
nature
,
Gal.
4.
29.
Hee
that
was
borne
after
the
flesh
,
&c.
6.
For
whole
mankind
,
All
flesh
is
grasse
,
&c.
7.
For
naturall
corruption
,
and
inclination
of
the
mind
,
will
,
and
affections
to
that
which
is
against
the
Law
,
and
so
it
is
taken
in
this
place
.
The
reason
why
the
holy
Ghost
termeth
this
naturall
corruption
inherent
in
the
soule
as
well
as
the
body
;
by
the
name
of
flesh
▪
Hypocrates
twins
,
they
laugh
together
,
they
weepe
together
,
and
are
alike
affected
:
A
bloody
heart
,
and
a
bloody
hand
,
a
false
heart
and
a
false
tongue
,
a
lascivious
mind
,
an
adulterous
eye
;
yea
and
which
is
more
,
so
strangely
sometimes
is
the
soule
overcome
with
the
love
of
the
body
,
that
whereas
by
nature
,
reason
should
command
(
and
rule
the
flesh
▪
as
the
weaker
vessell
)
the
belly
and
backe
so
subtly
insinuate
and
creep
into
favour
with
the
understanding
,
that
as
the
foolish
wife
with
her
beauty
and
composed
devices
,
over-ruleth
her
husband
,
though
a
man
of
understanding
;
So
these
importunat
cravers
never
give
over
their
suite
unto
reason
,
they
make
it
a
drudge
to
sensuality
,
and
an
attorney
to
sollicit
the
cause
of
meere
grosse
and
carnall
pleasure
.
In
consideration
whereof
(
I
meane
because
of
this
mutuall
intercourse
of
the
soule
and
the
body
in
accomplishing
of
sin
,
)
many
learned
Divines
have
made
this
a
question
,
Whether
the
soule
bee
first
infected
with
the
contagion
of
the
body
or
no
?
but
of
that
I
will
not
stand
,
it
being
besides
our
present
purpose
,
onely
thus
much
I
note
,
that
therefore
the
Holy
Ghost
nameth
the
flesh
to
intimate
the
mutuall
confederacy
betwixt
the
soul
&
body
of
man
,
how
that
by
reason
of
sin
he
is
now
wilfully
made
a
slave
and
vassall
to
fleshly
desires
.
And
therefore
likewise
it
may
bee
supposed
that
the
Holy
Ghost
nameth
the
flesh
onely
,
as
a
man
that
blameth
the
provoking
Wife
for
the
lewd
action
done
by
her
husband
.
For
albeit
,
sinne
lyeth
principally
,
in
the
soule
as
poyson
in
the
teeth
,
yet
it
sheddeth
and
disperseth
it selfe
at
his
pleasure
actually
into
the
members
of
the
body
,
of
whom
it
is
aptly
accomplished
as
occasion
is
offered
.
And
as
the
whole
toad
is
called
a
venomous
creature
because
of
some
one
part
preserving
poyson
,
(
the
rest
being
capable
of
the
same
virulent
infection
:
)
So
the
whole
man
is
said
to
bee
sinfull
;
not
as
if
the
body
of
it selfe
,
as
it
consisteth
of
bones
&
sinnewes
and
living
arteries
can
properly
bee
said
to
be
sinfull
otherwise
then
as
the
house
is
said
to
be
wicked
because
of
the
wicked
dwellers
.
Albeit
I
graunt
as
the
serpent
was
a
fit
instrument
for
the
devil
because
of
his
subtilty
,
so
the
body
and
all
the
parts
thereof
being
corrupted
,
are
become
unto
the
wicked
soule
,
as
the
convenient
tooles
for
the
artificer
,
or
as
a
picklocke
,
or
fitted
weapon
in
the
hand
of
a
theefe
,
&
therefore
Paul
calleth
them
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Weapons
of
unrighteousnesse
;
or
as
a
shrewish
servant
to
an
upright
Master
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
;
Servants
to
uncleannesse
.
For
the
soule
sealing
up
every
evill
action
with
voluntary
consent
,
may
be
said
to
bee
the
theefe
and
the
body
the
receiver
,
both
alike
culpable
before
God
,
seeing
each
in
his
nature
&
place
hath
stricken
a
stroke
in
the
committing
of
sin
.
That
our
whole
man
is
naturally
corrupt
appeares
by
the
verdict
of
God
himselfe
,
who
saith
,
that
he
is
but
flesh
,
The
imagination
of
mans
heart
is
evill
from
his
youth
,
and
so
accordingly
his
whole
disposition
and
estate
even
from
his
subsisting
to
th●s
present
.
I
know
that
in
me
(
that
is
in
my
flesh
,
or
nature
)
dwelleth
no
good
,
saith
the
Apostle
.
There
is
not
so
much
as
a
thought
of
time
betwixt
a
mans
naturall
being
,
and
his
sinfull
being
.
So
soone
as
ever
wee
are
borne
,
wee
are
borne
sinners
,
being
guilty
of
Adams
transgression
before
God
,
which
is
therefore
called
Originall
sinne
in
regard
of
the
auncientnesse
of
it
,
continuing
eversince
Adams
fall
,
accompanying
the
nature
of
man
from
his
very
first
being
,
and
having
the
source
and
fountaine
of
all
sinfull
practises
in
it
.
Our
first
parents
being
once
corrupt
,
how
could
any
cleane
thing
bee
brought
out
of
their
filthinesse
?
flesh
;
Adam
begat
children
in
his
own
likenesse
;
If
the
roote
had
beene
holy
so
had
the
branches
beene
,
but
the
tree
being
once
corrupt
the
fruit
could
not
chuse
but
be
according
.
How
should
this
startle
and
affright
the
secure
worldlings
of
our
time
?
sawest
thou
ever
a
leprous
person
whose
body
is
bespred
with
sores
and
scabs
:
Such
and
a
thousand
times
worse
art
thou
in
the
sight
of
God
.
Knewest
thou
at
any
time
a
man
in
debt
for
some
hundreds
of
pounds
more
than
he
is
worth
,
for
whom
the
Bayliffes
and
Serjeants
lye
in
waite
at
every
corner
:
see
the
shadow
of
thy
own
estate
in
him
.
A
world
of
actions
hath
the
Lord
against
thee
,
and
his
justice
is
ready
to
attache
thee
,
and
seise
upon
thee
every
houre
.
Could
we
seriously
thinke
on
this
,
it
would
make
us
unsatisfied
in
abasing
our selves
,
and
cause
us
never
to
rest
,
till
we
have
made
our
peace
with
God
.
Thou
beholdest
abroad
a
vaine
person
,
fairely
set
out
to
the
eye
,
tricked
and
trimmed
in
the
best
fashion
,
and
it
may
be
thou
knowest
of
some
secret
foule
disease
he
hath
,
or
of
some
great
debt
he
is
in
:
Dost
thou
not
in
thy
thoughts
now
scorne
such
a
one
of
folly
;
Dost
thou
not
say
to
thy selfe
,
no
marvell
(
sure
)
he
should
be
so
proud
,
that
hath
such
a
deale
of
filthinesse
underneath
his
gaynesse
,
that
lies
in
every
bodies
debt
,
and
owes
more
than
hee
is
able
to
discharge
.
Turne
this
home
to
thine
own
soule
and
wonder
as
much
at
thy selfe
that
can
bee
so
carelesse
,
so
fearelesse
,
so
presumptuous
,
when
thy
soule
hath
such
neede
of
washing
,
and
there
are
against
thee
such
Bills
of
iniquity
,
and
for
ought
thou
knowest
not
yet
blotted
out
before
the
Lord
.
Canst
thou
thinke
well
of
thy selfe
that
hast
by
nature
such
a
filthy
soule
?
Oh
bewail
that
spirituall
thraldome
wherein
thou
art
plunged
,
commune
with
thine
own
heart
and
say
,
Into
what
misery
&
bondage
have
I
brought
my selfe
?
Thou
Lord
madest
me
holy
,
pure
,
and
upright
;
but
by
sin
I
sold
my selfe
unto
the
service
of
Sathan
,
from
which
to
this
day
,
I
cannot
get
deliverance
.
My
mind
is
blind
,
vaine
,
foolish
,
my
will
perverse
and
rebellious
,
all
my
affections
out
of
order
,
there
is
nothing
whole
or
sound
within
me
.
Night
and
day
I
am
pestered
with
sinfull
motions
.
The
desires
of
my
deceitfull
heart
bee
so
strong
and
prevailing
,
that
I
am
carried
headlong
to
that
which
is
evil
.
The
cursed
earth
is
not
so
apt
to
bee
overgrowne
with
weedes
,
bryers
and
thornes
,
as
this
soule
of
mine
with
lusts
,
passions
,
distempers
,
worldly
cares
and
sinfull
thoughts
,
the
law
of
the
flesh
rebelleth
against
the
law
of
my
minde
,
and
diffuseth
its
venome
into
every
action
I
performe
,
and
carrieth
me
violently
to
the
committing
of
sin
against
knowledge
and
conscience
.
The
Gally-slaves
condition
is
very
hard
and
miserable
,
but
mine
is
farre
worse
!
No
drudgery
so
base
as
the
service
of
sinne
.
No
Tyrant
so
cruell
a●
sinne
,
which
allows
no
respite
,
or
time
of
refreshing
.
O
miserable
man
that
I
am
who
shall
deliuer
me
from
this
body
of
death
?
I
have
deepely
defiled
my selfe
by
transgression
,
but
have
no
power
to
cleanse
my
heart
O
Lord
.
I
have
defaced
thine
image
,
but
cannot
repuire
it
.
I
have
yeelded
the
powers
of
my
soule
to
the
obedience
of
sinne
,
and
now
I
would
cast
off
that
subjection
,
and
breake
those
snares
,
I
am
altogether
unsufficient
for
it
.
When
I
would
do
well
,
evill
is
present
,
and
I
know
no
meanes
to
perfect
my
desire
.
I
want
no
strength
to
perfect
that
which
is
evill
,
and
I
am
ready
and
apt
upon
all
occasions
to
goe
astray
,
but
I
am
not
able
to
doe
any
good
,
such
is
my
feeblenesse
.
I
am
invironed
and
beset
with
sinne
on
every
side
.
Oh
when
shall
I
bee
set
at
liberty
,
that
I
may
runne
the
wayes
of
Gods
commandements
?
Hitherto
of
the
phrase
of
speech
used
by
the
Holy
Ghost
,
namely
,
the
flesh
for
the
whole
man
body
and
Soule
,
the
particular
corruption
of
either
:
which
that
wee
may
shun
as
farre
as
wee
may
wee
must
learne
to
know
them
in
their
speciall
heads
,
that
so
with
some
certainty
we
may
kenne
our
owne
stepps
and
discerne
our
owne
hearts
whether
we
walke
according
to
the
flesh
,
yea
or
not
.
Concerning
the
corruption
of
the
soule
and
first
as
touching
the
fleshly
understanding
.
As
the
fierce
dragon
bringeth
not
forth
the
innocent
dove
,
or
the
roaring
Lyon
,
the
harmelesse
sheepe
;
no
more
did
Adam
in
the
state
of
his
impurity
beget
children
sutable
with
his
condition
in
the
state
of
innocency
,
but
having
defiled
the
holinesse
of
his
nature
by
eating
the
forbidden
fruit
(
as
a
little
levin
levineth
the
whole
lumpe
so
)
he
imparted
the
same
nature
to
his
son
,
as
most
evidently
appeared
in
Cain
,
and
from
him
to
all
the
rest
of
his
posterity
,
even
unto
our selves
,
being
all
of
us
begotten
in
sin
and
conceived
in
iniquity
.
So
that
whereas
before
the
minde
was
endued
with
a
perfect
actuall
knowledge
of
God
,
(
so
far
as
the
humane
nature
may
be
supposed
capable
)
yea
and
which
is
more
,
was
enriched
with
power
and
ability
of
knowing
more
than
as
yet
he
had
actually
attained
:
Now
as
the
cleere
sunshine
overwhelmed
with
a
cloud
;
so
is
the
minde
of
man
overcast
with
palpable
darknesse
,
being
destitute
not
onely
of
all
reall
knowledg
excepting
that
naturall
knowledge
he
hath
of
God
taught
him
by
the
creatures
(
which
is
rather
a
light
and
wavering
opinion
,
than
a
grounded
and
setled
perswasion
)
but
also
of
all
ability
,
of
attaining
the
true
knowledge
of
God
by
any
faculty
,
vertue
,
industry
,
or
meanes
whatsoever
inherent
in
himselfe
.
That
the
Mind
is
thus
fast
bolted
up
in
the
dungeon
of
ignorance
appeareth
plainly
by
the
Apostle
,
which
affirmeth
,
the
naturall
man
perceiveth
not
the
things
of
God
:
and
that
The
wisdome
of
the
flesh
is
enmity
against
God
.
The
invisible
things
of
God
,
as
his
eternall
power
and
Godhead
,
from
the
consideration
of
the
creatures
,
yet
little
or
nought
doth
hee
truely
know
either
concerning
God
or
his
worship
,
as
appeareth
by
all
ages
,
and
nations
who
have
acknowledged
as
much
,
and
yet
every
one
have
chosen
a
God
of
their
owne
making
,
and
worshipped
him
also
in
their
owne
manner
.
Moreover
,
that
man
by
nature
hath
disabled
himself
&
is
become
impotent
,
indocible
,
and
not
capable
of
instruction
,
appeareth
by
the
Apostle
who
affirmeth
that
we
are
not
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
sufficient
of
our selves
,
to
thinke
any
thing
as
of
our selves
,
but
our
sufficiency
is
of
God
,
and
therefore
our
Saviour
Christ
opened
the
understanding
of
his
disciples
that
they
might
understand
the
Scripture
.
It
is
observed
in
the
Church
of
England
,
that
many
thousands
have
lived
twenty
yeares
together
under
a
preaching
Minister
,
yea
and
that
minister
sometimes
very
painefull
and
diligent
in
the
discharge
of
his
calling
;
yet
scarce
a
man
among
them
all
able
to
give
an
account
of
his
faith
in
any
one
article
,
otherwise
then
hee
hath
learned
it
by
roate
out
of
his
English
Credo
in
Deum
;
or
to
give
any
testimony
of
his
profiting
more
by
the
Word
,
then
in
the
time
of
that
Popish
and
blasphemous
Idolatry
.
The
reason
whereof
is
,
that
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
or
,
inability
of
nature
before
spoken
of
,
through
which
he
is
as
unable
to
conceive
of
the
incarnation
of
the
Sonne
of
God
,
the
miraculous
conception
of
Christ
,
the
spirituall
regeneration
of
the
faithful
,
the
resurrection
of
the
body
,
eternall
glory
,
and
the
like
;
as
an
horse
to
flye
in
the
ayre
,
or
a
dead
man
to
rise
out
of
the
grave
by
his
owne
power
.
If
your
apprentice
in
tenne
yeeres
being
actively
taught
,
bee
not
able
to
attaine
the
mystery
and
science
of
his
trade
,
you
count
him
an
asse
or
blockhead
;
why
then
may
wee
not
terme
the
master
an
uncapable
sot
in
the
mysteries
of
God
,
which
hath
spent
twenty
or
thirty
yeeres
in
the
knowledge
thereof
,
Sabbath
upon
Sabbath
,
Sermon
after
Sermon
,
and
yet
like
the
mill
wheele
turning
all
the
yeere
,
is
yet
in
the
same
place
where
it
was
in
the
beginning
.
It
may
be
you
will
ask
mee
,
It
is
very
materiall
if
you
marke
it
:
a
whoremaster
,
or
an
adulterer
,
as
the
world
imagineth
;
Oh
say
they
,
hee
is
a
man
given
to
the
flesh
,
he
is
a
bad
liver
,
as
if
there
were
no
fleshly
corruption
but
that
;
Yes
beloved
,
if
thou
be
ignorant
of
God
and
his
worship
,
walking
after
thine
owne
inventions
,
dead-hearted
,
secure
,
and
carelesse
,
vaine
in
thy
imaginations
,
content
with
thy
naturall
estate
,
&c.
thou
art
as
fleshly
as
the
wretchedst
whoremaster
,
and
as
carnall
as
the
most
wicked
liver
,
in
Gods
account
:
Remember
that
flesh
is
here
opposed
against
Spirit
;
whatsoever
is
not
Spirit
is
flesh
,
and
therefore
ignorance
is
flesh
,
unlesse
thou
wilt
blasphemously
affirme
that
it
hath
his
originall
from
the
Spirit
.
Now
as
he
that
is
desirous
to
seat
in
his
minde
the
true
frame
of
the
body
,
must
view
it
in
an
anatomy
consisting
of
bones
and
sinewes
:
so
he
that
would
learne
the
true
discription
of
the
body
of
sinne
,
must
see
it
in
his
original
,
both
in
the
minde
,
will
,
and
affections
,
after
this
he
shall
easily
perceive
how
by
veines
▪
it
disperseth
it selfe
like
a
net
over
the
whole
soule
,
and
distills
into
act
both
inward
and
outward
,
to
the
finall
destruction
of
the
whole
man
.
Thus
much
of
the
Understanding
.
2.
Concerning
the
Conscience
.
In
the
next
place
wee
are
to
consider
of
the
Conscience
,
which
is
a
part
of
the
understanding
in
all
reasonable
creatures
,
determining
in
all
particular
actions
either
with
or
against
a
man
.
This
in
the
state
of
innocency
did
onely
excuse
,
to
accuse
is
a
defect
in
the
Conscience
following
the
first
Creation
.
Now
the
fleshy
infection
of
the
Conscience
is
the
impurity
thereof
.
dead
conscience
hath
two
degrees
,
either
of
slumber
,
scared
with
an
hot
iron
,
These
two
are
caused
1.
Chiefly
through
defect
of
reason
in
all
crazed
braines
.
2.
Through
the
strength
of
affections
overcasting
the
minde
and
swallowing
up
judgement
.
3.
Ignorance
of
Gods
will
and
error
in
judgement
.
The
stirring
Conscience
,
3.
Concerning
Memory
.
As
a
loving
father
setting
his
sonne
to
schoole
,
giveth
him
a
chest
to
locke
up
his
bookes
and
whatsoever
hee
hath
,
of
price
and
value
,
that
hee
may
there
preserve
them
till
neede
requires
:
So
the
Lord
in
the
state
of
innocencie
,
revealing
himselfe
and
his
will
unto
man
,
gave
him
a
good
memory
&
strong
treasury
,
wherein
he
might
lay
up
whatsoever
his
minde
truely
conceived
,
and
fetch
it
again
to
bee
meditated
and
thought
upon
as
occasion
was
offered
.
But
this
also
being
tainted
with
the
flesh
in
spirituall
matters
,
will
hold
nothing
;
but
being
already
furnished
with
divers
impressions
of
worldly
matters
,
is
no
way
able
to
embrace
the
principles
of
Gods
truth
,
or
to
retaine
that
which
may
be
his
onely
comfort
longer
then
a
dynt
struck
in
the
water
;
from
whence
it
commeth
that
a
carnall
man
entertaineth
the
word
at
one
eare
and
letteth
it
out
at
another
,
his
whole
religion
consisting
in
hearing
,
not
binding
himselfe
firmely
and
effectually
to
remember
any
thing
,
unlesse
it
be
a
matter
which
he
thinketh
either
cleareth
him
in
his
sinne
,
as
,
God
is
mercifull
,
and
,
at
what
time
soever
a
sinner
repenteth
:
or
else
that
toucheth
his
neighbour
in
the
next
seat
,
but
as
for
the
knowledge
of
God
and
his
nature
,
a
saving
faith
in
Christ
,
or
the
like
,
teach
him
every
weeke
,
nay
every
day
for
the
space
of
twenty
yeers
together
,
he
will
not
remember
so
much
as
a
beast
may
bee
taught
in
some
active
sleights
in
an
houre
.
I
know
what
I
say
,
a
dogge
or
horse
may
sooner
be
taught
to
remember
a
toy
whereof
his
nature
is
capable
in
one
houre
,
then
a
meere
naturall
man
the
true
substance
of
religion
all
the
dayes
of
his
life
.
4.
Concerning
the
Will
.
The
former
faculties
of
the
soule
are
called
speculative
;
there
is
another
kinde
called
practicall
,
which
are
,
the
Will
and
affections
,
and
these
are
exercised
in
action
,
as
the
other
in
Contemplation
.
The
Will
is
the
absolute
Monarch
in
a
man
,
and
the
Vnderstanding
is
his
Counsellor
.
Now
whereas
before
the
Will
was
counselled
and
guided
by
true
reason
and
understanding
and
so
was
both
able
and
willing
to
bee
conformable
unto
God
▪
now
it
is
both
impotent
(
as
was
said
of
the
understanding
)
not
able
in
any
sort
to
desire
or
will
heavenly
things
,
5.
Concerning
the
Affections
.
The
affections
likewise
which
are
divers
dispositions
of
mans
soule
stirred
up
by
diversity
of
objects
,
are
more
stained
with
fleshly
corruption
then
any
other
part
of
the
creature
besides
,
which
in
regard
of
their
violence
,
make
a
carnall
person
to
be
caryed
like
a
mad
man
upon
a
wilde
horse
,
so
as
he
can
neither
stay
himselfe
,
nor
bee
staid
by
others
.
Which
fleshly
corruption
consisteth
in
this
,
that
they
are
moved
unto
contrary
objects
;
for
those
which
should
bee
stirred
up
by
the
evilnesse
of
an
object
to
abhorre
it
,
doe
in
that
respect
,
embrace
it
and
move
towards
it
;
and
those
which
should
bee
moved
by
the
goodnesse
of
an
object
to
embrace
it
,
doe
in
that
respect
abhor
and
shunne
it
.
For
which
cause
they
may
fitly
bee
compared
to
a
bedlam
,
who
rageth
and
raileth
against
his
keeper
,
or
unto
a
sicke
body
,
which
loathing
that
which
would
worke
the
cure
,
hankereth
still
after
that
which
engendreth
corruption
and
increaseth
his
disease
.
For
example
,
whereas
man
should
love
God
,
and
embrace
each
thing
as
incites
therunto
;
contrariwise
he
hateth
God
and
his
Ministers
,
yea
and
embrāceth
from
his
heart
each
thing
which
may
most
soundly
and
effectually
kill
and
slay
that
affection
in
him
,
soft
apparell
,
sweet
meats
,
faire
building
,
outward
pompe
,
rich
coffers
,
merry
company
,
sleepe
,
ease
,
(
what
if
I
say
whores
and
harlots
)
these
be
his
loves
,
these
be
his
mistresses
,
these
be
his
Paramours
,
and
all
these
in
a
carnall
man
are
like
entising
minions
,
labouring
to
divorce
his
affection
from
his
maker
.
You
cannot
love
God
and
Mammon
,
Againe
,
whereas
at
the
first
,
man
joyed
in
the
fruition
of
the
presence
and
favour
of
God
,
in
serving
and
meditating
of
him
and
his
workes
;
now
he
taketh
no
pleasure
therein
at
all
,
but
if
by
the
Law
,
or
for
shame
hee
bee
drawne
to
some
spirituall
exercise
,
nothing
is
more
tedious
unto
him
,
his
body
is
imprisoned
in
a
seat
,
his
minde
walketh
about
all
the
while
,
either
hee
climbeth
up
unto
one
of
the
scaffolds
,
viewing
his
friends
,
defying
his
foes
,
or
else
is
in
his
shop
counting
his
ware
,
plotting
some
bargaine
,
or
the
like
.
Moreover
,
whereas
we
should
bee
sorrowfull
for
our
sinne
,
we
are
sorrowfull
that
wee
cannot
sinne
,
poverty
,
sickenesse
,
danger
,
prison
,
displeasure
,
strike
us
downe
dead
:
but
the
poverty
of
the
soule
stript
naked
of
Gods
graces
,
the
sicknesse
of
the
minde
,
able
neither
to
see
nor
know
the
Almighty
,
grieveth
us
not
at
all
.
Whereas
in
the
time
of
innocency
man
relyed
himself
upon
God
for
an
happy
estate
,
and
gave
credit
to
his
promises
;
now
though
he
protest
and
binde
it
with
a
solemne
oath
,
no
man
beleeveth
him
;
though
hee
hath
sent
his
beloved
Sonne
from
his
owne
bosome
to
ransome
us
out
of
our
spirituall
captivity
,
and
left
it
for
ever
in
perpetuall
record
,
witnessed
by
men
and
Angells
,
yet
who
regardeth
it
in
his
heart
?
or
blesseth
God
in
his
soule
for
the
same
?
Iesus
Christ
of
Nazareth
the
Carpenters
sonne
,
was
too
base
a
fellow
to
gratifie
the
stately
personages
of
our
times
:
No
,
the
Gods
of
England
shall
deliver
us
,
wit
,
learning
,
beauty
,
strength
,
friends
,
riches
,
nobility
,
sinne
,
Sathan
,
this
present
world
,
any
thing
save
Jesus
Christ
.
So
that
hereby
it
is
manifest
that
man
is
so
farre
from
having
affiance
in
God
,
that
he
is
at
defiance
with
him
,
refusing
and
renouncing
his
patronage
and
protection
.
By
this
therfore
which
in
cursory
wise
hath
been
uttered
,
you
may
easily
perceive
how
fearefully
this
fleshly
poyson
hath
dispersed
it selfe
,
over
our
whole
man
,
and
made
every
faculty
of
soule
and
body
swell
with
pride
,
and
ambition
against
God
;
yea
and
like
a
mad
dogge
,
to
byte
and
snatch
at
every
hand
,
even
them
of
his
owne
nature
.
As
a
light
Chariott
drawn
with
wilde
horses
,
and
driven
with
a
blinde
man
(
willing
to
give
the
raines
whither
soever
the
horses
will
runne
)
must
needs
be
in
great
danger
of
shattering
all
to
pieces
;
So
the
understanding
being
deprived
of
light
,
which
should
give
notice
to
our
blinde
will
,
and
wilde
affection
,
must
needs
in
the
end
overthrow
both
soule
and
body
,
with
the
finall
calamity
of
the
whole
man
;
unlesse
the
Lord
give
a
better
guide
,
and
take
the
whip
out
of
the
hand
of
our
corrupt
will
,
and
govern
the
affections
&
faculties
of
our
soules
,
with
the
restraint
of
his
saving
Spirit
.
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,
Originall
sinne
is
an
hereditary
disease
,
which
in
time
breakes
out
in
whole
mankinde
,
it
is
the
match
that
dischargeth
the
pealing
pieces
of
all
our
infamous
actions
;
It
is
the
husband
which
begetteth
on
us
his
wife
(
the
faculties
of
our
soules
and
bodies
)
many
bratts
,
many
actuall
transgressions
,
as
Paul
notably
allegorizeth
;
1.
It
is
an
universall
corruption
,
wholly
stripping
thee
of
all
that
righteousnesse
and
holinesse
,
wherein
at
first
thou
wert
created
,
like
a
disease
overspreading
the
whole
man
,
filling
thee
with
a
generall
pravity
to
all
that
is
good
,
and
a
constant
propensity
to
all
that
is
evill
.
2.
It
cleaves
as
fast
to
thy
nature
,
even
as
blacknesse
to
the
skinne
of
an
Ethiopian
,
which
cannot
possibly
bee
washed
out
;
thou
mayest
loppe
the
branches
,
but
the
roote
will
never
die
,
till
thou
expirest
with
it
.
As
long
as
corne
is
in
the
field
,
it
will
have
chaffe
about
it
;
so
,
as
long
as
thou
continuest
in
this
miserable
world
,
the
remnants
of
olde
Adam
will
stil
abide
in
thee
:
A
man
may
as
easily
shake
off
the
skinne
from
his
backe
,
as
ridde
himselfe
of
this
evill
inhabitant
,
wee
beare
our
snare
with
us
,
and
carry
our
enemie
about
us
where
ever
we
goe
.
3.
Consider
the
great
contagion
and
pestilentiall
humour
that
followes
this
sinne
,
it
derives
venome
upon
every
action
that
comes
from
us
.
Sinne
in
the
soule
,
is
as
poyson
in
the
fountaine
,
that
sheds
infection
into
every
performance
wee
take
in
hand
.
this
evill
will
be
present
with
thee
.
This
is
that
which
in
thy
prayers
deads
thy
Zeale
,
humiliation
and
importunity
with
God
,
causing
thee
to
rest
in
the
worke
done
,
never
enquiring
after
the
truth
of
thine
owne
heart
,
or
Gods
blessing
thereupon
.
This
is
that
which
fills
thy
minde
with
impertinent
thoughts
,
and
wrong
ends
in
religious
duties
.
This
is
that
which
in
thy
calling
makes
thee
so
unmindefull
of
God
and
his
service
,
so
froward
,
vain
,
and
unprofitable
in
thy
Christian
course
,
ayming
at
nothing
but
thine
own
advantage
.
4.
Consider
the
temptations
that
arise
from
this
sinne
,
the
daily
and
hourly
solicitations
wherwith
it
sets
upon
the
soule
,
to
withdraw
it
from
good
things
,
and
incline
it
to
evill
.
A
man
is
tempted
of
his
owne
lusts
▪
(
saith
S.
Iames
)
when
he
is
drawne
away
and
entised
.
nothing
in
him
to
receive
his
darts
;
in
us
the
flesh
holds
treacherous
complyance
with
Sathan
,
and
this
wicked
world
,
and
is
ready
to
let
them
in
at
every
assault
.
Seede
will
never
grow
in
any
creature
,
without
a
womb
to
foster
it
;
temptations
may
vexe
,
but
they
cannot
defile
us
,
without
our
owne
sinfull
entertainement
.
It
may
grieve
a
chast
woman
to
be
solicited
by
base
Ruffians
,
but
it
cannot
corrupt
her
whiles
shee
retaines
her
chastity
.
If
wee
can
keepe
in
our
hearts
from
imbracing
Sathans
offers
,
and
shew
our
distast
of
them
,
the
sin
is
his
then
,
&
not
ours
:
but
here
is
the
misery
,
Sathan
knowes
how
our
inclination
stands
,
hee
searcheth
out
our
dispositions
,
and
thereunto
frameth
his
temptations
;
therefore
wee
have
great
neede
of
spirituall
wisdome
,
to
observe
where
wee
lie
most
obnoxious
,
where
Sathan
doth
most
plant
his
forces
,
and
ever
to
apply
our
strongest
watch
,
our
most
importunate
prayers
to
those
gappes
.
5.
Consider
the
warre
,
and
rebellion
of
this
sinne
,
the
flesh
lusteth
against
the
spirit
,
fleshly
lusts
warre
against
the
soule
,
saith
the
Apostle
;
whilest
wee
are
in
this
militant
condition
we
shall
have
hourely
experience
of
this
traytor
in
our
bosomes
.
And
this
warre
is
not
at
a
distance
,
but
an
intimate
and
close
contrariety
in
the
same
part
,
the
same
soule
that
commands
obedience
doth
it selfe
resist
it
;
in
the
same
will
there
is
a
delight
in
the
Law
of
God
,
and
yet
a
counter-motion
to
the
law
of
sinne
;
In
the
same
heart
singlenesse
and
sensiblenesse
of
sinne
,
and
yet
much
secret
fraud
and
hardnesse
in
the
apprehension
of
wrath
.
In
the
same
affections
love
of
God
and
love
of
the
world
,
feare
of
God
,
and
feare
of
men
,
trust
in
God
,
and
doubting
of
his
favour
.
Lord
I
beleeve
helpe
thou
mine
unbeleefe
,
was
the
cry
of
the
poore
man
in
the
Gospell
,
and
such
must
be
the
complaint
of
the
best
of
us
.
Lord
I
remember
thee
,
helpe
my
forgetfulnesse
;
Lord
I
presse
towards
thee
,
helpe
my
weaknesse
.
Lord
I
rejoyce
in
thee
,
helpe
my
heavinesse
.
Lord
I
desire
to
have
more
communion
with
thee
,
help
my
strangnesse
.
I
am
dull
and
dead
hearted
,
doe
thou
quicken
me
.
I
desire
to
please
thee
,
helpe
my
failings
;
We
must
not
only
wrestle
with
God
,
by
strong
and
importunate
prayers
,
but
with
the
lusts
and
frowardnesse
of
our
owne
hearts
.
6.
Consider
the
strength
and
power
of
this
sinne
,
to
bring
about
what
ever
it
hath
projected
for
the
advancement
of
Sathans
kingdome
,
law
in
our
members
,
servants
to
sinne
,
of
himselfe
,
for
this
is
certain
,
that
to
be
preserved
from
the
strength
of
our
owne
lusts
,
wee
have
not
onely
use
of
the
good
graces
which
God
hath
given
us
already
,
but
of
a
continuall
support
and
underpropping
.
Grace
in
the
best
(
here
)
is
but
like
the
putting
of
hot
water
into
cold
,
which
may
bee
warmed
for
a
time
,
but
yet
presently
returnes
to
its
former
temper
,
cold
is
predominant
,
however
the
preserving
of
fire
under
it
keepes
it
hot
for
the
present
.
It
is
not
the
Grace
which
any
of
us
receive
can
overcome
sinne
in
us
,
if
God
should
there
stop
,
and
leave
us
to
our selves
,
without
a
fresh
supply
;
that
which
preserves
us
is
his
promise
of
never
failing
us
of
healing
our
back
slidings
,
following
us
with
his
mercy
all
our
dayes
.
7.
Consider
the
indefatigablenesse
of
this
sinne
,
how
unwearied
it
is
in
every
mischiefe
it
sets
about
.
If
we
resist
the
devill
,
hee
will
flye
from
us
,
but
this
fleshly
heart
of
ours
will
never
sound
a
retreat
,
it
is
like
a
wounded
wolfe
that
runnes
up
and
downe
to
doe
mischiefe
;
a
man
that
hath
in
some
measure
overcome
his
lusts
,
will
bee
farre
more
sensible
of
their
stirrings
and
struglings
,
then
another
in
whom
they
rule
without
disturbance
.
Sin
is
kindled
by
that
which
quencheth
all
other
fires
,
and
surely
grace
which
extinguisheth
other
temptations
doth
occasionally
enrage
the
flesh
,
though
in
regard
of
exercise
and
actuall
power
it
dye
daily
.
The
reason
is
,
because
a
thing
in
its
proper
motion
is
never
tyred
;
who
ever
knew
the
Sea
give
over
raging
,
or
the
streame
grow
weary
of
running
?
Now
corrupt
motions
are
as
naturall
to
a
man
as
the
course
of
a
river
.
Though
there
may
be
difficulty
in
fulfilling
lusts
,
there
can
never
be
any
in
the
rising
and
sprouting
of
lusts
.
It
is
no
paines
to
conceive
seede
,
though
it
bee
to
bring
forth
a
birth
;
the
longer
any
man
lives
in
sinne
,
the
sweeter
it
is
to
him
.
The
eye
is
not
satisfied
with
seeing
,
nor
the
eare
with
hearing
;
no
more
is
a
sinner
with
his
deeds
of
darknesse
,
if
he
should
live
for
ever
,
hee
would
sinne
for
ever
.
Evill
comes
out
of
the
heart
,
as
sparkles
out
of
the
fire
,
which
never
cease
while
the
fire
continues
.
Lust
is
like
a
furious
rider
,
never
weary
of
the
way
,
hee
may
have
enough
to
load
him
,
but
can
never
have
enough
to
weary
him
;
he
may
quickly
have
enough
to
sinke
him
,
but
can
never
have
enough
to
satisfie
him
.
Lust
it selfe
growes
never
olde
nor
weary
,
when
adultery
in
the
heart
hath
worne
out
the
body
,
so
as
it
strength
withereth
,
yet
even
then
it
will
finde
a
vent
in
a
wanton
eye
,
unchast
speeches
and
thoughts
full
of
uncleanenesse
.
Though
a
man
may
weary
himselfe
in
the
acting
sinne
,
yet
lust
is
never
satisfied
in
conceiving
sinne
.
Lastly
,
consider
the
propagation
of
this
sinne
,
which
may
well
therefore
be
called
an
olde
man
,
because
it
dyes
not
,
but
passeth
from
one
generation
to
another
.
A
mans
actuall
sinnes
are
personal
,
they
both
beginne
and
end
in
himselfe
.
But
originall
sinne
is
naturall
,
and
therefore
together
with
our
nature
it
passeth
over
to
our
posterity
.
It
is
an
entaile
that
can
never
be
cut
off
,
it
hath
held
from
Adam
,
and
so
will
continue
to
the
worlds
end
.
Every
parent
is
the
channell
of
death
to
his
posterity
.
Adam
diffused
damnation
to
all
mankinde
.
Neither
is
it
any
wonder
that
from
a
cursed
root
,
should
proceed
branches
fit
for
nothing
but
the
fire
.
What
a
watch
then
should
we
keepe
over
our
evill
hearts
,
Retaine
in
thy
freshest
memory
such
quickening
thoughts
as
these
:
If
I
commit
this
sinne
,
it
will
cost
me
unvaluably
more
heart-breake
and
spirituall
smart
,
before
I
can
purchase
assurance
of
pardon
and
peace
of
conscience
,
then
the
sensuall
pleasure
is
worth
.
If
I
never
repent
it
will
be
the
ruine
of
my
soule
for
ever
.
When
thou
goest
to
buy
a
commodity
,
if
the
price
be
great
,
thou
forbearest
,
and
wilt
thou
venture
up
on
sinne
,
knowing
what
it
will
cost
thee
?
If
Iudas
had
knowne
as
much
before
he
betrayed
his
Master
,
as
now
he
feeles
,
hee
would
never
have
committed
that
villany
.
Alas
,
thy
soule
is
incomparably
more
worth
then
the
whole
world
,
and
wilt
thou
for
a
little
paltry
pleasure
of
some
base
and
rotten
lust
,
which
passeth
away
in
the
act
,
hazard
the
losse
of
so
precious
a
jewell
?
Doe
not
consider
the
smalnesse
of
thy
sinnes
,
but
the
greatnesse
of
thy
God
,
who
is
displeased
with
them
.
Mortification
is
tedious
,
but
heaven
is
sweete
,
men
are
content
to
goe
all
day
after
their
hawkes
and
hounds
,
enduring
hunger
and
thirst
,
for
a
little
pleasure
not
worth
the
enjoying
,
why
then
should
wee
refuse
any
labour
for
the
obtaining
so
rich
a
reward
?
In
lust
a
man
wearieth
himselfe
and
hath
no
hope
but
here
our
labour
is
not
in
vaine
in
the
Lord
,
wee
shall
reape
if
we
faint
not
.
A
little
glory
in
heaven
,
nay
a
little
comfort
in
earth
,
will
plentifully
recompense
all
our
travaile
and
paines
in
this
kinde
.
Looke
not
alwayes
on
Satans
temptations
,
the
worlds
solicitations
,
and
thine
owne
sinfull
inclinations
,
these
as
clogs
will
presse
thee
down
and
much
dishearten
thee
in
thy
Christian
course
,
but
looke
unto
Iesus
the
author
and
finisher
of
thy
faith
,
who
will
carry
through
al
difficulties
,
and
overcome
sinne
in
thee
by
his
grace
;
call
therefore
to
him
,
hee
is
within
the
voice
of
thy
prayers
,
and
will
come
to
strengthen
thee
.
How
jealous
ought
Christians
to
bee
over
themselves
,
having
so
dangerous
an
enemy
nigh
unto
them
;
a
bridle
,
no
wicked
thing
to
abide
in
his
sight
,
Me
thinkes
the
consideration
of
this
thorne
in
our
flesh
,
Brethren
,
think
of
this
,
the
more
vile
any
man
is
in
his
owne
eyes
,
the
more
precious
he
is
in
Gods
.
And
the
best
way
to
bring
a
man
to
a
base
esteeme
of
himselfe
,
is
to
reflect
his
thoughts
seriously
upon
his
owne
estate
,
to
view
himselfe
in
his
naturall
condition
;
There
is
no
good
,
so
truly
good
but
his
heart
abhors
it
;
No
evill
so
extreamely
wicked
,
but
there
is
an
inclinablenesse
in
him
to
embrace
it
;
no
servant
so
ready
to
doe
his
masters
will
,
as
hee
is
to
doe
the
workes
of
the
devill
,
no
rebell
so
desperately
adverse
to
his
lawfull
soveraigne
,
as
hee
is
to
God
.
Oh
that
men
were
truely
sensible
of
their
carnall
condition
.
The
want
of
this
,
is
the
cause
of
all
that
security
and
deadnesse
of
spirit
,
which
seares
up
the
heart
of
many
thousands
of
people
.
This
makes
so
little
care
of
being
saved
.
Hence
it
is
that
the
Gospell
preached
is
so
smally
reckoned
of
,
the
name
of
Christ
is
no
more
precious
,
the
word
of
grace
no
more
honoured
,
the
promise
of
salvation
no
more
laid
hold
on
,
and
hearkened
after
,
the
threatnings
of
hell
no
more
stood
in
feare
of
then
they
bee
;
it
is
indeed
one
and
not
the
smallest
part
of
our
native
wretchednesse
,
that
our
eyes
are
so
holden
with
selfe-love
that
wee
cannot
perceive
our
misery
,
nay
,
wee
are
pleased
with
it
,
and
think
it
a
peece
of
our
happinesse
to
continue
in
it
.
Wee
have
not
onely
no
disposition
to
goe
from
it
,
but
which
is
worse
,
a
strong
desire
to
remaine
still
therein
.
Where
is
the
man
that
truely
discernes
he
is
lost
and
undone
,
that
sensibly
groanes
under
the
weight
and
burthen
of
sinne
,
that
cryes
out
with
the
Leaper
,
I
am
uncleane
,
I
am
uncleane
,
I
have
not
in
me
by
nature
so
much
as
a
graine
of
goodnesse
,
I
am
a
very
lumpe
of
corruption
,
I
am
an
enemy
to
God
,
and
to
my
owne
soule
:
I
cannot
so
much
as
frame
a
thought
tending
to
the
furtherance
of
my
best
good
,
Every
thing
I
meddle
with
,
is
defiled
by
me
,
the
very
earth
is
weary
to
beare
me
,
and
according
to
the
kinde
thereof
,
both
it
,
and
all
the
creatures
complaine
to
God
against
me
,
I
am
a
burthen
to
the
times
and
places
wherein
I
live
,
every
man
I
converse
with
is
the
worse
for
mee
,
&c.
Lastly
,
to
prevent
surprisalls
by
this
cruell
enemy
,
study
his
policies
before
hand
;
for
howsoever
the
strength
of
the
flesh
be
very
great
,
yet
the
policy
thereof
doth
farre
exceed
it
:
for
being
not
a
professed
enemy
,
but
a
secret
traitor
,
it
is
more
exercised
in
cunning
undermining
of
our
safety
,
with
subtle
slights
,
and
politique
stratagems
,
then
in
assaulting
us
after
an
open
and
hostile
manner
.
Sathan
cannot
deceive
us
unlesse
our
owne
flesh
assisting
him
,
doe
first
deceive
us
.
The
danger
whereof
is
so
much
the
greater
,
because
it
is
so
deep
and
disguised
,
that
it
can
hardly
be
discovered
and
found
out
:
it
displayes
not
its
colours
in
open
field
,
but
lyes
hid
in
secret
ambushments
,
mingling
it selfe
with
our
owne
forces
,
and
making
a
shew
of
simplicity
,
and
sincerity
,
when
there
is
nothing
but
craft
and
,
deceit
in
it
,
perswading
us
that
we
are
nothing
so
evill
and
corrupt
as
indeed
wee
are
,
and
that
those
good
things
which
wee
seeme
to
have
are
of
farre
more
excellency
then
in
truth
they
bee
,
that
our
little
mite
is
a
great
treasury
,
that
we
are
in
an
happy
and
blessed
condition
,
whereas
wee
were
never
neerer
unto
death
and
destruction
;
that
surely
God
loves
us
because
we
prosper
in
the
world
,
and
live
civilly
and
quietly
amongst
our
neighbours
,
wronging
no
man
,
that
so
much
zeale
and
strictnesse
is
more
then
neede
,
that
the
best
have
their
failings
,
that
great
sinnes
are
very
small
ones
,
and
little
sinnes
are
none
at
all
,
&c.
Infinite
are
the
windings
and
labyrinths
of
the
heart
of
man
,
the
counsells
and
projects
of
this
flesh
of
ours
to
establish
the
kingdome
of
sinne
in
it selfe
:
What
man
is
there
who
will
not
outwardly
seeme
to
spit
at
Sathan
,
and
defie
his
workes
of
darknesse
,
and
yet
what
man
is
there
in
whose
bosome
secretly
Satan
doth
not
plot
&
devise
wicked
enterprises
.
The
more
time
a
man
spends
to
make
himself
acquainted
with
himselfe
,
and
begs
of
God
to
reveale
the
hidden
corruption
of
his
evill
nature
to
him
,
the
more
abhorrency
and
condemnation
will
hee
have
of
himselfe
,
and
the
more
adoration
and
wonderment
,
at
the
infinite
mercy
of
God
,
that
hee
is
not
consumed
;
when
once
a
man
hath
his
evil
wayes
discovered
to
him
by
Gods
spirit
,
he
will
be
abased
and
confounded
in
his
owne
sight
.
It
is
nothing
but
ignorance
that
keepes
men
in
pride
.
If
to
bee
wise
to
doe
evill
,
and
foolish
to
doe
good
,
if
to
plead
for
sinne
and
Sathan
,
If
to
receive
good
parts
and
abilities
from
God
,
and
to
fight
against
him
with
the
same
,
bee
matters
to
be
boasted
of
,
then
there
is
a
great
crop
of
pride
in
every
mans
nature
,
else
wee
must
all
conclude
that
hee
which
gloryeth
in
any
thing
meerely
in
himselfe
,
hath
chosen
nothing
to
glory
in
but
his
owne
shame
.
Alas
,
the
best
of
our
wisedome
is
but
sensuall
and
devillish
,
fleshly
deceit
as
the
Scripture
speakes
,
a
man
may
bee
very
wise
,
and
yet
imploy
the
same
upon
nothing
but
mischiefe
.
You
have
heard
the
lineaments
of
originall
corruption
,
which
in
the
wisdome
of
the
Holy
Ghost
is
called
flesh
.
Now
as
a
body
infected
with
the
plague
,
doth
not
presently
complaine
,
or
shew
the
disease
till
afterward
:
So
this
venome
in
children
lyeth
lurking
,
and
worketh
not
till
the
faculties
of
the
soule
are
prettily
well
hatched
up
,
and
then
like
a
charmed
cup
it
fumeth
up
into
the
braine
,
and
fills
it
with
idle
thoughts
;
it
enchanteth
the
conscience
,
invenometh
the
affections
,
and
maketh
the
heart
like
a
tipling
house
,
full
fraught
with
ruffian-like
passions
Such
strange
and
totall
disorder
,
such
contention
betwixt
the
heart
and
the
conscience
,
such
raging
in
the
affections
,
such
desperate
unrulinesse
in
the
will
,
such
error
and
staggering
in
the
understanding
;
that
a
man
may
well
be
compared
to
a
rude
family
consisting
of
treacherous
servants
,
al
false
and
idle
,
of
equall
authority
,
being
subject
to
none
,
but
Lords
of
themselves
.
Vnderstanding
directed
by
the
law
of
nature
,
attempteth
to
advise
,
the
will
saith
shee
will
not
yeelde
,
but
doe
as
shee
lists
;
Affections
prevaile
with
Will
,
and
overcast
judgement
.
Conscience
cryeth
out
upon
them
all
,
and
threatneth
the
Law
:
Faire
spoken
pleasure
entreateth
it
to
be
quiet
,
and
that
all
villany
may
bee
committed
without
check
.
Lust
by
degrees
entreateth
the
will
to
put
out
the
candle
and
light
of
knowledge
;
then
when
ignorance
,
as
dark
as
hell
,
hath
invaded
and
overshadowed
the
whole
man
,
the
minions
of
Venus
court
may
walke
dismasked
without
kenning
;
adultery
,
fornication
,
uncleanenesse
,
wantonnesse
,
idolatry
,
witchcraft
,
hatred
,
debate
,
envy
,
murther
,
drunkennesse
,
gluttony
,
&c.
and
the
whole
Crew
of
fleshly
workes
may
creepe
out
of
the
heart
,
The
whole
man
is
full
of
disorder
;
trust
not
therefore
any
of
thy
members
alone
without
making
a
covenant
with
it
.
adultery
,
pride
,
envy
,
covetousnesse
,
there
are
lusts
of
the
eye
.
If
to
use
thy
tongue
,
set
a
doore
before
thy
lips
,
there
is
an
hell
within
thee
that
can
set
it
all
on
fire
,
That
man
or
woman
therefore
of
what
estate
or
degree
soever
they
be
,
noble
,
or
ignoble
,
bond
or
free
,
which
are
not
transformed
by
the
renewing
of
their
minds
,
If
therefore
thou
art
Secondly
,
examine
thy
thoughts
,
how
thou
hast
conceived
of
God
and
his
incomprehensible
nature
,
how
acute
and
sharpe
sighted
in
his
wayes
.
Hearken
to
thy
conscience
,
(
if
thou
hast
any
)
and
heare
it
speake
,
or
if
thou
hast
none
at
all
,
so
set
it
downe
in
thy
examination
.
Summon
thy
will
and
affections
also
,
to
be
tryed
by
the
same
word
;
if
thou
perceivest
no
difference
in
these
from
the
common
estate
of
most
men
,
no
alteration
from
former
times
,
it
is
suspitious
thou
art
carnall
.
But
if
thou
finde
by
the
guide
of
the
word
(
by
the
word
I
say
,
for
thou
being
blind
canst
not
see
where
thou
art
)
that
yet
thou
remainest
ignorant
,
and
still
walking
in
thy
erroneous
and
presumptuous
course
,
both
towards
God
and
men
,
if
thou
finde
in
thy
minde
these
or
the
like
thoughts
:
That
there
is
no
God
.
No
providence
,
or
presence
of
God
.
If
thou
thinkest
thy selfe
safe
from
all
perill
,
and
art
rocked
asleepe
by
the
tempest
of
other
mens
judgements
.
If
thou
thinkest
thy selfe
a
very
wise
man
and
farre
exceeding
others
.
If
in
deede
,
notwithstanding
thy
outward
holinesse
,
thou
thinkest
the
Gospell
and
the
sufferings
of
Christ
to
be
meer
foolishnesse
.
If
thou
thinkest
perversly
and
basely
of
them
that
worship
God
truely
.
If
thou
thinkest
death
wil
not
come
yet
,
nor
yet
,
and
so
livest
as
if
thou
hadst
made
a
covenant
with
the
grave
.
If
thou
thinkest
God
is
as
man
,
that
he
will
pardon
thee
howsoever
thou
livest
,
and
that
the
punishment
of
hell
may
easily
be
shunned
.
If
thou
thinkest
the
day
of
judgement
to
bee
far
off
.
And
upon
these
corrupt
imaginations
,
not
onely
findest
checke
(
for
that
may
be
performed
in
some
men
by
the
light
of
nature
,
enforcing
the
conscience
to
accuse
thee
,
yet
thou
never
the
neerer
)
but
also
no
positive
thoughts
utterly
opposit
,
but
rather
growest
resolute
therein
,
committing
all
to
thy
will
and
affections
to
conclude
of
thy
spirituall
estate
.
If
thy
minde
be
full
of
vanity
,
wasting
it selfe
in
childish
and
unprofitable
notions
,
slippery
&
unstable
in
all
good
matters
,
full
of
ignorance
and
darknesse
,
so
as
thou
seekest
not
after
God
in
the
way
where
he
will
be
found
,
full
of
curiosity
,
foolish
and
impertinent
questions
,
full
of
pride
and
contradiction
against
the
word
of
truth
,
having
fleshly
reasonings
against
the
spirit
of
God
,
full
of
carnall
wisdome
,
humane
inventions
,
methods
of
its
own
to
serve
God
,
and
come
to
happinesse
by
,
thou
mayest
then
assure
thy selfe
,
thy
minde
is
meere
flesh
,
thou
being
dead
in
thy
understanding
through
the
vanity
,
impotency
andignorance
thereof
.
Conscience
.
If
thy
conscience
(
which
God
hath
placed
as
a
sentinell
or
watchman
in
thee
to
observe
thy
dealings
)
be
full
of
impurity
,
and
disobedience
,
full
of
dead
,
rotten
and
unsavory
workes
,
full
of
false
and
absurd
excusations
.
If
it
be
either
so
be
nummed
,
and
insensible
,
that
it
will
not
accuse
(
unlesse
it
bee
for
murther
,
adultery
,
the
every
or
such
like
grosse
offences
)
or
dead
as
a
limbe
taken
with
a
gangrene
,
that
it
cannot
accuse
at
all
;
Or
if
it
have
life
,
yet
if
it
apply
it selfe
corruptly
,
as
to
acquit
thee
for
doing
evill
,
or
to
condemne
thee
and
hang
thee
up
for
doing
good
,
fearing
thee
where
no
feare
is
,
then
hath
the
flesh
prevailed
over
thy
conscience
,
and
thou
art
wholly
carnall
.
Memory
.
Further
,
if
thy
memory
be
so
decayed
,
that
if
one
would
give
thee
a
thousand
pounds
,
thou
art
not
able
to
imprint
the
doctrine
of
salvation
were
it
never
so
often
taught
thee
,
and
yet
able
upon
a
speedy
rehearsall
to
repeat
a
tale
of
an
houre
long
,
with
every
circumstance
concerning
any
thing
done
in
such
a
Kings
daies
or
reported
to
be
done
,
as
the
tale
of
Robin
Whood
,
Guy
of
Warwick
,
and
I
know
not
what
paltery
stuffe
,
thou
maist
assure
thy selfe
,
that
flesh
also
is
the
guide
of
thy
memory
,
and
that
it
is
voide
of
all
holinesse
.
For
as
clay
will
not
cleave
to
iron
or
brasse
;
So
the
fleshly
memory
will
retaine
no
spirituall
memorandum
,
but
that
which
is
fleshly
,
agreeing
with
his
nature
,
and
therefore
the
story
of
Gods
will
offered
to
the
memory
is
like
to
quick-silver
powred
upon
a
plaine
table
which
never
resteth
running
and
dispersing
it selfe
till
it
bee
harboured
in
a
concavity
fit
to
retain
its
substance
:
So
the
principles
of
Christian
science
will
not
stay
in
a
carnall
memory
no
more
then
an
honest
man
in
a
brothell
Inne
or
Ale-house
;
and
therefore
no
marvell
that
they
light
at
the
foregate
,
and
take
horse
at
the
postern
,
come
in
at
one
eare
and
out
at
another
.
Will
.
Moreover
,
if
thy
will
be
full
of
loathing
,
and
aversation
,
so
as
it
cannot
endure
to
heare
or
see
any
thing
that
is
good
,
but
pluckes
in
the
shoulder
,
and
casts
it
behinde
the
backe
:
If
it
be
full
of
enmity
against
holinesse
,
slighting
and
neglecting
the
best
things
:
If
it
bee
full
of
obstinacy
against
religious
courses
,
thwarting
and
crossing
the
strict
wayes
of
God
:
If
full
of
disability
to
any
good
,
so
as
it
cannot
hearken
nor
bee
subject
to
the
Law
of
God
,
but
rebells
against
his
blessed
truth
:
If
thou
art
resolute
to
commit
the
wicked
purposes
of
thy
heart
,
stout
and
stubborne
against
admonition
,
turning
the
deafe
eare
to
the
preaching
of
Gods
word
,
loath
to
intermeddle
with
matters
of
the
Spirit
,
but
willing
to
fulfill
the
lusts
of
the
flesh
,
having
thy
hand
in
every
impious
action
,
with
this
imperious
style
,
sic
volo
,
sic
jubeo
,
I
will
and
command
it
to
bee
so
,
not
respecting
whether
the
thing
bee
crooked
or
straight
,
right
or
wrong
,
good
or
bad
;
then
is
thy
will
meerely
carnall
,
and
doth
dominere
like
a
blinde
King
,
or
ignorant
Pilot
sitting
at
the
sterne
of
the
whole
man
,
and
yet
not
skilled
in
one
starre
,
nor
knowing
one
point
of
the
card
,
nor
respecting
the
Compasse
,
nor
regarding
the
point
of
the
diamond
,
but
downe
the
river
with
the
full
saile
of
affections
,
and
tempests
of
sudden
passions
,
no
regard
to
the
country
whither
wee
saile
,
no
respect
of
the
hidden
rockes
,
no
consideration
of
fearefull
gulfes
,
no
casting
of
anchor
,
no
notice
of
the
Climate
,
&c.
no
marvell
then
if
blinde
will
make
in
the
end
a
sudden
and
fearefull
shipwracke
both
of
soule
and
body
.
Heart
.
To
conclude
,
if
in
thy
heart
,
as
in
a
cage
,
thou
finde
the
uncleane
birds
of
adultery
and
fornication
,
the
viper
of
malice
,
and
cockatrice
of
envy
,
the
hydra
of
covetousnesse
consisting
of
many
heads
,
having
in
their
fronts
the
superscriptions
of
thee
very
,
violence
,
perjury
,
murther
,
and
idolatry
:
If
in
thy
heart
thou
find
infidelity
,
security
,
pride
,
confidence
in
the
creature
,
&c.
If
it
bee
full
of
hardnes
,
so
as
no
sinnes
,
no
judgements
,
no
hopes
,
no
feares
,
no
promises
,
no
instructions
are
able
to
awaken
and
melt
the
same
:
If
it
bee
full
of
impotency
,
not
altered
by
the
invitations
and
intreaties
of
God
to
returne
unto
him
:
not
perswaded
by
the
fruitlessenesse
of
all
sinnefull
lusts
to
forsake
them
:
If
it
be
full
of
folly
and
madnesse
,
so
as
all
the
creatures
in
the
world
are
not
able
to
cure
it
,
full
of
infidelity
ready
to
depart
from
the
living
God
,
under-valuing
his
precious
promises
,
and
mistrusting
his
power
,
full
of
pollution
and
uncleanenesse
,
full
of
unsearchable
deceit
and
wickednesse
,
a
very
forge
and
mint
wherein
all
manner
of
sinnes
are
framed
in
secret
purposes
and
desires
,
from
whence
they
spring
forth
into
life
and
action
,
then
is
thy
heart
also
nothing
but
flesh
,
&
thy
whole
man
nothing
but
rottennesse
and
corruption
.
If
it
bee
asked
herein
,
how
I
distinguish
betwixt
the
Elect
and
the
Reprobate
,
for
albeit
Gods
children
bee
purged
through
the
blood
of
Christ
,
yea
and
the
force
of
sinne
in
some
measure
weakened
in
them
,
I
answer
,
yet
can
they
not
be
said
to
live
according
to
the
flesh
,
seeing
the
substance
as
it
were
and
principall
tenour
of
their
lives
is
directed
according
to
the
Spirit
.
As
the
aire
in
the
dawning
of
the
day
is
not
wholly
so
dark
nor
wholly
so
light
as
at
night
and
noone
day
:
So
is
the
estate
of
the
regenerate
,
not
all
flesh
,
as
the
wicked
,
nor
all
Spirit
as
them
that
are
glorified
,
but
partly
flesh
and
partly
spirit
,
grace
and
corruption
,
not
severall
in
place
,
but
in
reason
to
be
distinguished
:
yea
the
flesh
is
more
in
measure
than
the
spirit
,
and
therefore
Paul
calls
the
Corinthians
,
otherwise
justified
and
sanctified
,
yet
carnall
,
to
receive
but
the
first
fruits
of
the
Spirit
whilest
we
are
here
.
Notwithstanding
for
all
this
,
such
is
the
power
of
the
Spirit
,
that
albeit
it
be
small
like
David
,
yet
it
is
able
ordinarily
to
prevaile
against
that
uncircumcised
Philistim
the
flesh
.
And
further
it
is
of
such
inestimable
vertue
,
that
as
one
graine
of
muske
giveth
a
stronger
perfume
than
many
other
grosse
smells
:
So
doth
that
sweeten
all
our
actions
in
the
nostrils
of
God
.
And
as
a
man
albeit
all
the
parts
of
his
body
be
dead
,
so
that
he
neither
knowes
nor
sees
,
nor
can
speake
,
yet
if
he
have
any
life
in
a
corner
of
his
heart
,
any
breath
,
or
any
motion
remaining
,
none
will
be
so
hard
hearted
as
to
pull
him
out
of
his
bed
and
bury
him
as
a
dead
man
:
So
although
in
this
life
we
have
many
a
dead
palsie
;
many
a
dint
,
many
a
dry
buffet
by
the
hand
of
Sathan
;
yet
so
long
as
the
breath
of
God
is
in
us
and
we
keepe
the
truth
of
the
spirit
,
like
the
star
of
a
diamond
,
it
will
cause
us
to
shine
in
this
darknes
of
our
corruption
,
and
like
an
antidote
,
preserve
us
against
eternall
death
.
A
word
of
application
to
two
sorts
,
and
I
proceed
.
First
,
touch
the
Lords
annointed
,
or
to
harme
his
Prophets
:
But
the
licencious
preacher
is
the
man
I
taxe
,
as
being
the
shame
and
discredit
of
the
Lords
Ministery
.
As
concerning
the
people
,
Where
is
the
spirit
of
Paul
become
,
which
esteemed
all
things
as
dung
and
drosse
to
winne
Christ
?
blessed
that
hunger
and
thirst
after
righteousnesse
,
good
cheere
,
gay
apparell
,
faire
houses
,
outward
pompe
,
and
fleshly
vanities
.
Christ
forbiddeth
us
to
love
the
world
,
or
the
things
of
the
world
,
because
the
fashion
thereof
passeth
away
;
and
yet
how
many
have
plighted
their
hearts
to
the
world
,
as
if
it
were
the
onely
good
and
true
felicity
.
O
fearefull
times
,
O
fleshly
corruptions
,
O
the
lamentable
estate
of
this
our
land
and
country
.
Is
there
never
a
watchman
to
discover
this
danger
?
Or
prophet
left
to
bewaile
our
transgressions
?
The
gappe
is
great
who
can
stand
in
it
!
The
breach
is
like
the
breaking
out
of
the
Seas
,
and
the
noise
of
our
sinnes
like
the
roaring
of
many
waters
:
The
atheisme
and
the
hypocrisie
of
our
land
,
her
pride
,
covetousnesse
,
and
adultery
,
shall
justifie
the
spirituall
whoredome
of
Spaine
and
other
Countryes
which
never
injoyed
those
meanes
,
and
mercies
as
we
have
done
.
Oh
how
that
outward
peace
and
abundance
which
wee
have
had
lulled
us
asleepe
in
sinfull
security
!
Wee
goe
to
Church
,
pray
,
Yea
owne
words
,
to
ripen
and
set
forward
his
owne
or
his
friends
advantages
?
where
is
the
man
whose
heart
is
ready
prest
to
obey
every
of
Gods
Commandements
as
well
as
any
of
them
?
That
cleaves
to
Christ
and
his
blessed
truth
,
when
they
goe
alone
severed
from
all
outward
credit
,
pleasure
and
profit
whatsoever
?
where
is
the
man
that
denies
himselfe
in
his
most
beloved
sinnes
,
that
beares
wrongs
and
injuries
patiently
,
that
is
willing
to
be
trampled
upon
,
and
to
bee
set
light
by
,
for
the
cause
of
Christ
,
and
the
testimony
of
a
good
conscience
?
Ah
fearefull
times
,
what
last
and
worse
age
of
the
world
is
this
we
are
fallen
into
?
Kill
and
slay
,
whore
and
taverne
,
sweare
and
game
,
revell
and
rout
,
live
as
wee
list
,
doe
any
thing
,
so
it
be
done
manfully
,
warily
,
and
with
the
minde
of
a
gentleman
,
who
dares
controll
it
?
Yes
heare
what
the
Spirit
saith
,
Yee
shall
die
.
But
I
am
free
from
any
grosse
enormity
,
True
it
is
,
stay
the
Arke
,
and
was
smitten
with
sudden
death
.
Wee
must
not
consider
what
wee
have
done
,
but
how
great
hee
is
whom
wee
have
offended
.
It
is
not
the
least
thing
in
mans
life
,
to
neglect
such
things
as
seeme
to
bee
least
,
and
I
know
not
concerning
what
faults
wee
may
bee
secure
,
seeing
we
must
be
judged
even
for
sinnes
of
ignorance
,
and
give
an
account
of
our
idle
words
and
thoughts
.
The
lesse
discernable
a
vice
is
,
the
greater
care
wee
should
have
to
avoid
it
.
Wee
soone
come
to
the
sight
of
great
sinnes
,
and
so
to
repentance
for
them
,
whereas
wee
persist
and
goe
on
in
the
lesser
without
controule
.
It
is
good
therefore
to
take
heed
of
the
least
,
as
though
they
were
the
greatest
;
for
so
much
the
more
easily
shal
we
abstaine
from
any
offence
,
by
how
much
the
more
wee
are
afraid
of
committing
it
:
that
man
seldome
falls
fowly
,
that
is
fearefull
of
falling
at
all
;
sinne
is
Satans
livery
,
which
who
so
ever
willingly
weares
,
acknowledgeth
his
soveraignty
,
and
their
owne
servitude
.
Though
the
most
sanctified
men
have
still
their
imperfections
and
frailties
,
yet
to
live
in
the
least
offence
against
knowledge
and
conscience
,
is
an
evident
signe
wee
are
in
the
devils
bondage
,
for
hee
that
truely
hates
one
sin
,
will
hate
all
of
the
kinde
.
There
is
not
any
sin
committed
but
leaves
a
poyson
in
the
soule
behinde
it
.
If
the
gate
be
set
open
the
enemy
will
soone
enter
in
.
Witnesse
the
many
experiences
of
Gods
children
,
who
winking
at
smaller
sinnes
,
have
beene
plunged
into
greater
.
If
once
thou
givest
leave
to
thy
corrupt
affections
to
play
their
parts
,
thou
shalt
hardly
make
them
give
over
.
Little
sinnes
usher
great
ones
and
bring
them
into
the
closet
of
thy
heart
.
How
dares
then
a
sinner
call
any
sin
small
,
when
as
the
Sonne
of
God
gave
his
life
for
it
,
above
which
nothing
in
the
world
can
bee
esteemed
?
The
holy
Ghost
uses
the
future
tense
here
,
Yee
shall
die
,
to
intimate
thus
much
,
that
albeit
for
a
season
the
theater
of
iniquity
is
much
frequented
,
the
actors
favoured
with
great
applause
,
and
every
carnall
man
playeth
his
part
with
grace
,
to
the
admiration
of
the
beholders
,
although
the
wages
bee
not
paid
so
soone
as
the
worke
is
done
,
nor
the
dislike
which
God
hath
of
sinners
declared
presently
by
the
execution
of
his
feareful
judgement
upon
them
,
yet
shall
they
escape
no
more
then
a
beast
taken
in
a
trappe
,
or
the
prisoner
included
in
a
strong
tower
.
When
the
Lord
shall
come
in
the
clouds
with
his
holy
Angels
,
the
assises
shall
bee
kept
in
the
aire
,
the
prisoners
of
the
earth
,
notwithstanding
their
boasting
among
their
fellows
shall
all
be
arraigned
before
him
,
and
then
shall
ensue
the
verdict
of
the
conscience
upon
them
,
even
that
fearefull
sentence
of
death
,
Goe
ye
cursed
into
everlasting
fire
prepared
for
the
devill
and
〈◊〉
angells
.
This
may
teach
us
to
give
small
credit
to
the
glittering
face
and
flattering
countenance
of
outward
things
.
Let
us
cheere
our selves
never
so
much
in
our
youth
,
and
walke
forth-right
in
the
wayes
of
our
owne
hearts
,
and
sight
of
our
owne
eyes
,
yet
for
all
that
God
shall
bring
us
to
iudgement
.
by
night
.
In
this
one
word
Yee
shall
die
,
is
contained
the
infinite
volumne
of
all
misery
;
the
great
Ocean
of
all
sorrow
,
it
being
an
Epitome
of
mans
future
calamity
.
Did
a
man
certainely
know
that
hee
should
lose
all
his
goods
,
friends
,
honor
,
and
credit
,
if
hee
committed
this
or
that
particular
action
.
I
suppose
he
would
shrinke
from
doing
it
.
If
the
adulterer
should
know
that
he
was
watched
,
and
that
one
behinde
the
doore
stands
ready
with
a
polaxe
to
choppe
off
one
of
his
legges
or
armes
,
mee
thinkes
the
feare
of
that
mischiefe
should
bee
too
strong
for
his
bruitish
affections
,
and
conquer
his
lustfull
passions
.
If
the
drunkard
should
know
,
that
in
such
a
taverne
whither
he
usually
goeth
posting
with
his
cup
companions
,
there
standeth
in
one
of
the
drinking
places
a
man
with
a
pistoll
charged
with
white
powder
of
purpose
to
shoote
him
through
;
I
imagine
how
gladly
hee
would
leave
his
wine
and
sugar
and
betake
himselfe
to
his
heeles
,
yea
and
account
him
his
friend
that
would
push
him
over
the
threshold
and
thrust
the
doore
after
him
.
And
this
not
without
reason
;
for
as
a
man
would
bee
willing
to
give
all
that
he
hath
,
yea
and
to
lose
some
of
his
limbes
to
redeeme
his
life
.
(
Skinne
for
skinne
and
all
that
a
man
hath
will
be
give
for
his
life
)
Now
if
reason
can
thus
prevaile
against
corrupt
passions
when
hurt
is
intended
against
the
body
,
why
should
it
not
much
more
perswade
the
understanding
,
conscience
,
and
will
to
endeavour
themselves
against
fleshly
corruptions
,
which
are
pernicious
to
the
soule
,
and
not
onely
temporall
,
but
eternall
death
to
the
whole
man
.
By
death
,
in
this
place
is
understood
,
not
the
first
but
the
second
death
,
as
appeareth
plainely
by
the
antithesis
and
opposition
of
eternall
happinesse
against
this
everlasting
death
and
misery
:
And
so
it
is
taken
in
many
places
of
scripture
:
Hee
that
overcommeth
shall
not
be
hurt
of
the
second
death
.
The
fearefull
and
unbeleeving
,
&c.
shall
have
their
part
in
the
lake
which
burneth
with
fire
and
brimstone
,
which
is
the
second
death
.
What
need
many
proofes
as
if
every
scripture
were
not
given
by
divine
inspiration
?
Here
wee
see
the
Tragedy
,
that
must
follow
the
pleasant
Comedy
of
worldly
joyes
,
and
the
hard
reckoning
that
is
given
after
all
the
junkets
of
fleshly
pleasure
.
If
you
aske
mee
what
this
death
is
,
When
the
aforesaid
ignorant
and
unconscionable
wretch
hath
played
his
pageants
in
City
and
Countrey
,
Now
after
that
the
soule
and
body
hath
for
a
certain
season
made
their
abode
in
the
said
places
of
the
grave
and
hell
,
as
a
Malefactor
in
the
prison
untill
the
Law
day
;
then
shall
they
by
the
unspeakable
power
of
God
be
united
again
into
one
man
,
at
the
voice
of
an
Archangell
and
trumpet
of
God
,
Depart
from
mee
yee
cursed
,
If
further
you
demand
what
shall
be
the
state
of
this
creature
,
I
answer
,
ioyes
celestiall
doe
farre
surpasse
all
earthly
melody
(
and
therefore
cannot
be
conceived
truely
,
because
man
wanteth
a
cleer
spectacle
wherein
to
behold
them
)
So
the
sorrowes
of
everlasting
,
torment
being
transcendent
,
all
the
glasse
of
humane
misery
cannot
be
sufficient
in
full
conceit
to
expresse
it
,
or
come
neere
it
,
neither
can
it
be
knowne
of
any
fleshly
creature
,
saving
onely
of
such
as
feele
it
.
Yet
least
any
man
herein
should
be
utterly
ignorant
,
and
so
waxe
secure
,
esteeming
death
eternall
as
a
poeticall
fury
or
vizzard
to
be
playd
withall
,
thereby
fearfully
derogating
from
Gods
power
,
wisdome
,
and
glory
in
inflicting
justice
;
the
holy
Ghost
hath
given
us
some
secret
items
concerning
this
point
,
and
slightly
,
in
comparison
runne
it
over
,
as
a
Painter
with
a
little
white
lead
drawing
forth
the
great
Elephant
;
not
so
much
teaching
us
what
it
is
,
as
what
indeed
it
is
not
.
The
first
thing
touching
this
matter
to
be
considered
briefly
,
is
,
the
separation
of
these
carnall
men
before
spoken
of
,
from
the
presence
and
glory
of
God
;
whose
communion
,
as
it
is
the
head
and
heart
of
all
felicity
,
so
to
bee
deprived
of
his
favourable
presence
is
the
very
summe
of
all
misery
.
For
as
a
grievous
malefactor
once
in
favour
with
his
Prince
,
bound
in
chains
of
iron
,
hung
up
on
the
top
of
an
hill
,
debarred
of
all
mortall
helpe
,
set
apart
to
be
consumed
with
famine
night
and
day
,
filleth
the
hils
and
dales
with
his
restlesse
moanes
,
and
stayeth
the
most
speedy
passengers
with
the
hollow
cryes
of
his
extreme
misery
.
Or
as
a
Princes
daughter
set
on
shoare
by
a
perfidious
shipman
,
where
is
nought
but
trees
and
wildernesse
,
lyons
,
beares
,
and
antilopps
,
debarred
of
all
comfort
,
within
the
hearing
of
the
groveling
dens
,
compassed
about
with
seas
:
So
and
much
more
fearefull
is
the
state
of
that
man
whosoever
he
be
,
that
is
banished
from
the
presence
of
God
in
regard
of
the
graces
of
the
spirit
,
which
are
the
infallible
pledges
of
his
love
and
favour
,
however
he
enjoyeth
many
outward
good
things
,
as
the
stranger
in
a
Princes
Court
may
make
him selfe
glad
with
his
wine
,
though
altogether
unknowne
,
or
at
least
without
any
speciall
notice
taken
of
him
by
the
Prince
.
But
when
God
shall
1.
strip
him
of
all
temporall
blessings
,
as
riches
,
honor
,
health
,
wealth
,
friends
,
peace
,
&c.
2.
When
he
shall
make
himselfe
knowne
to
his
blinde
soule
with
a
more
manifest
and
apparant
resemblance
of
his
glory
in
justice
,
declaring
the
detestation
hee
hath
of
his
supposed
knowledge
,
his
unconscionable
conscience
,
his
devillish
wil
and
corrupt
affections
.
3.
When
hee
shall
first
shut
the
doore
upon
him
that
leadeth
unto
life
,
and
then
also
for
ever
cast
him
out
of
his
presence
,
as
a
man
that
throws
a
toad
or
serpent
out
of
his
garden
,
and
that
into
the
place
of
everlasting
torment
(
Lord
)
what
tongue
can
expresse
,
or
heart
conceive
the
heavy
estate
of
this
forlorne
or
abject
creature
?
To
be
out
of
favor
with
a
Prince
is
much
,
but
to
be
out
of
favour
with
God
,
who
can
abide
it
?
There
is
no
man
living
unlesse
he
be
desperate
,
but
either
hee
thinketh
himself
high
in
Gods
favour
,
and
therefore
is
still
peaceable
within
himselfe
,
or
else
is
possessed
with
such
a
spirit
of
slumber
,
that
the
faculty
of
due
pondering
the
pretiousnesse
of
Gods
presence
is
taken
from
him
;
as
in
a
drunkard
which
neither
regardeth
his
frendnor
his
foe
,
but
when
the
drinke
shall
be
out
of
his
head
,
as
at
the
departure
of
his
soul
,
then
shall
hee
strike
his
knees
together
,
&
his
heart
shall
bee
cold
as
a
stone
;
like
that
of
Nabal
,
when
the
feast
was
past
,
and
hee
had
heard
the
judgement
denounced
:
then
shall
hee
open
his
eyes
as
the
man
which
hath
beene
blind
from
his
birth
,
and
behold
the
vengeance
of
God
upon
him
.
By
the
Presence
of
God
in
this
place
I
doe
not
understand
a
bare
locall
residence
with
God
:
hee
being
in
heaven
,
in
hell
,
and
in
all
places
:
but
by
his
Presence
I
understand
as
the
holy
Ghost
teacheth
me
,
the
comfort
,
the
joy
and
blisse
which
betydeth
the
Creature
through
his
presence
.
Now
what
the
losse
hereof
may
be
,
I
leave
to
thy
owne
heart
:
and
yet
it
being
fleshly
,
may
happily
err
,
or
not
esteem
so
highly
as
the
thing
requireth
.
To
helpe
thee
in
a
word
;
Adam
after
his
offence
fled
from
Gods
presence
,
and
the
Lord
ratified
it
,
for
indeed
hee
cast
him
out
of
the
garden
where
hee
had
communion
and
fellowship
with
God
,
yet
so
,
that
hee
left
him
certaine
signes
and
tokens
of
his
former
dignity
both
spirituall
and
temporall
in
soul
and
body
:
from
whence
it
commeth
that
wee
his
children
doe
yet
retain
some
resemblance
of
our
former
happinesse
,
though
our
holinesse
is
quite
lost
:
We
have
Lordship
over
all
the
creatures
,
wee
are
fed
with
the
fruits
of
the
earth
,
we
have
some
comliness
of
person
,
and
impression
of
majesty
,
beyond
the
beasts
,
yea
we
have
a
smack
of
God
:
And
in
politicall
matters
,
yet
preserve
some
slender
and
slight
footings
of
his
wisdome
and
providence
:
the
King
ruleth
,
the
people
obey
:
the
heaven
,
the
earth
,
and
the
stars
yeelde
themselves
according
to
the
will
of
the
Creator
,
propitious
unto
man
,
hee
enjoyeth
their
light
,
their
influences
,
their
fruits
,
&
sundry
commodities
:
And
all
this
because
man
(
albeit
out
of
the
garden
of
Eden
the
place
of
delight
,
yet
)
is
still
as
long
as
hee
liveth
in
the
Cookes
garden
:
being
thrust
(
as
it
were
)
out
of
a
most
pleasant
parlour
,
where
God
appeared
in
glory
,
into
a
more
obscure
place
of
lesse
communion
with
him
.
Now
when
the
first
death
commeth
as
a
sore-runner
to
the
last
judgement
,
man
is
deprived
in
an
instant
,
of
all
pretended
comforts
and
outward
favours
,
and
plunged
into
an
infinite
depth
of
woe
and
bottomlesse
gulph
of
wrathfull
misery
,
his
body
strangely
altered
,
being
severed
from
his
soule
which
gave
it
both
life
and
reason
,
yea
and
deprived
of
all
earthly
succour
excepting
a
ditch
in
the
earth
to
preserve
his
bones
and
Cinders
unto
the
time
of
the
resurrection
.
All
which
(
marke
it
)
by
the
decree
of
the
just
Judge
of
heaven
,
shall
for
ever
be
deprived
of
all
shew
of
favour
,
or
the
least
drop
of
mercy
,
and
be
exiled
the
Courts
of
the
Almighty
,
world
without
end
.
Here
the
Kings
of
the
earth
shall
bee
degraded
,
the
Lords
and
Ladies
of
the
Court
abashed
,
and
each
rich
&
stately
person
utterly
disherited
of
all
his
substance
.
To
bee
out
of
favour
with
the
world
is
troublesome
to
weake
flesh
,
but
to
bee
discountenanced
with
God
,
this
is
the
Ocean
of
all
misery
:
Every
creature
then
beholdeth
with
a
threatning
face
,
the
heavens
lower
,
the
earth
frownes
,
and
withdraw
themselves
from
our
comfort
.
For
as
hee
that
loseth
the
good
will
of
the
Master
,
loseth
also
the
heart
of
the
true
and
trusty
servant
;
So
he
that
is
once
discountenanced
with
God
,
all
creatures
in
heaven
and
earth
make
head
against
him
.
Oh
that
our
great
landed
men
(
as
wee
call
them
)
which
have
seated
themselves
for
ever
(
as
they
suppose
)
would
consider
of
this
tragicall
ruine
;
they
are
so
shamefully
beguiled
with
the
composed
countenance
of
the
harlot
voluptuousnesse
,
the
strength
of
pleasure
,
arising
from
worldly
wealth
hath
so
dispossessed
them
of
their
wits
,
that
they
rave
in
the
pride
of
their
hearts
,
not
considering
their
latter
end
.
Out
beggar
,
I
scorne
thee
,
my
land
is
worth
three
hundred
pounds
by
the
yeer
,
and
wilt
thou
presume
to
keepe
mee
company
,
&c.
Ah
consider
that
thou
art
carnall
,
and
livest
according
to
the
flesh
,
and
therefore
must
dye
.
All
outward
things
shall
forsake
thee
,
thy
wealth
and
credit
,
thy
pastime
and
acquaintance
,
all
shall
bee
abandoned
,
God
himselfe
will
strippe
thee
of
these
robes
,
and
clothe
thee
with
shame
for
ever
;
In
vaine
doest
thou
presume
of
mercy
,
thou
caryest
the
bagge
for
a
season
,
but
it
shall
one
day
bee
rent
from
thy
side
,
and
God
shall
bee
glorified
in
leaving
thee
naked
.
The
second
thing
to
bee
considered
is
that
great
reproach
which
shall
seise
on
the
carnall
man
after
this
life
,
by
reason
of
the
cleere
revealing
of
all
his
hidden
sinnes
.
Little
Children
abide
in
him
,
that
when
hee
shall
appeare
we
may
be
bold
,
and
not
be
ashamed
before
him
at
his
comming
.
If
a
man
come
and
publish
a
hidden
crime
,
we
are
ready
with
our
action
to
cleere
our
honesty
,
and
defend
our
reputation
by
challenging
the
benefit
of
the
law
,
in
a
case
not
sufficiently
proved
against
us
.
But
at
this
time
the
skirts
of
thy
pollution
shall
be
discovered
before
the
sun
,
and
though
thou
wipest
thy
mouth
(
like
the
harlot
which
Solomon
describeth
)
yet
thy
sinne
shall
be
written
in
great
Characters
in
thy
forhead
,
so
as
hee
that
runnes
may
read
thy
chambering
and
wantonnesse
,
thy
whoredome
and
uncleannesse
,
thy
theevery
and
oppression
,
yea
all
thy
cradle
sinnes
,
which
never
yet
were
set
on
foot
,
(
thy
wicked
and
abominable
thoughts
I
meane
)
which
lye
lurking
in
thy
heart
as
in
a
denne
,
not
daring
to
come
abroad
,
for
feare
of
losing
thy
credit
.
Oh
the
fearefull
reproach
ensuing
hereupon
,
when
many
a
sober
man
and
vertuous
matron
,
so
falsely
esteemed
of
in
the
world
,
shall
have
their
vizzards
pluckt
downe
from
their
faces
,
the
ulcer
of
their
hearts
launced
,
and
all
the
buried
corruptions
of
their
childhood
,
of
their
youth
,
and
riper
age
,
plainely
before
men
and
Angels
,
Saints
and
blessed
Spirits
,
devills
and
reprobates
laid
open
,
to
their
eternall
shame
.
Imagine
that
thou
being
a
man
of
great
credit
and
esteeme
,
shouldest
have
all
the
vanities
of
thy
heart
,
whereunto
thy
conscience
giveth
testimony
,
and
all
the
night
practises
of
thy
youth
commenced
against
thee
,
even
in
the
high
Court
of
Parliament
,
before
thy
Prince
and
nobles
,
how
couldst
thou
shew
thy
face
?
Now
thou
pluckest
thy
garment
about
thee
to
cover
thy
shame
,
but
then
thou
shalt
bee
stript
naked
and
unclothed
,
to
the
reproach
of
thy selfe
and
thy
whole
family
:
now
thou
shelterest
thy
iniquity
in
a
closset
or
secret
chamber
from
the
eyes
of
him
that
cannot
pierce
the
walls
:
then
shalt
thou
stand
before
the
face
of
the
heavens
,
in
the
presence
of
him
whose
eyes
are
as
a
flaming
fire
,
knowing
the
secrets
of
thy
parlour
and
polluted
bed
,
thy
words
,
thy
thoughts
,
the
place
,
time
and
every
circumstance
of
thy
sinne
:
Now
thou
overlayest
the
drosse
of
thy
heart
with
a
guilded
outside
of
joy
and
meriment
,
but
then
the
Lord
shall
blow
upon
the
paint
of
thy
face
,
thy
withered
deformity
shall
then
bee
espyed
:
now
like
Ieroboams
wife
,
thou
disguisest
thy selfe
with
pretended
holinesse
;
but
at
that
time
the
Lord
shall
defeate
thee
,
and
display
thy
hypocrisie
.
To
conclude
,
what
causeth
a
man
having
one
foote
on
the
earth
,
and
another
in
the
grave
,
halfe
dead
and
halfe
alive
,
to
acknowledge
some
capitall
sinne
,
which
in
his
health
hee
would
not
for
all
the
world
?
The
Lord
will
make
thine
owne
conscience
impeach
thy selfe
,
and
discover
thy
transgressions
:
Thou
thinkest
not
so
,
so
thought
Iudas
,
but
as
then
with
him
,
so
also
with
thee
,
the
case
will
cleane
be
altered
.
The
third
appendix
of
their
death
,
is
their
society
with
the
devill
and
his
angells
;
Mat.
25.
we
account
it
a
fearefull
thing
to
see
a
Spectrum
or
diabolicall
delusion
,
and
so
it
is
to
our
weake
nature
;
but
to
be
really
present
with
Sathan
world
without
end
,
a
companion
in
torment
,
what
earthly
man
can
abide
it
.
To
bee
in
a
prison
full
of
Murtherers
,
it
is
horrible
,
but
in
that
bottomelesse
pit
with
thousands
of
condemned
spirits
abject
and
forlorne
creatures
,
a
heavy
heareing
.
The
theefe
before
he
bee
attached
and
caryed
to
the
gaole
,
perhaps
he
frequenteth
the
house
of
many
a
worthy
person
.
It
is
not
thy
stocke
and
kindred
,
thy
pompe
and
outward
bravery
that
will
serve
thy
turne
when
thou
art
arrested
with
death
,
all
the
world
will
not
be
of
sufficient
credit
to
baile
thee
.
Thinke
seriously
of
this
and
lay
it
to
heart
:
To
bee
taken
out
of
the
fields
of
pleasure
,
and
to
bee
throwne
into
the
dungeon
of
hell
,
there
to
bee
guided
with
that
cursed
crew
is
no
jesting-matter
;
Oh
that
all
carnall
livers
of
our
age
would
consider
hereof
;
no
doubt
it
would
somewhat
restraine
them
in
their
wilfull
course
,
and
gash
their
hearts
amidst
their
pleasures
.
O
that
that
the
curious
and
nice
women
that
cannot
abide
the
noise
of
a
canon
,
or
the
sudden
flashing
of
fire
,
could
ponder
the
misery
whereunto
they
are
born
,
namely
to
▪
dwell
in
darknesse
with
those
blasphemous
spirits
world
without
end
.
In
the
night
season
or
in
a
darke
place
,
thou
art
ready
to
runne
away
at
the
sight
of
a
shadow
,
or
at
the
reciprocall
imagination
of
thy
owne
thought
,
upon
the
noise
of
a
Scritch
owle
▪
or
the
like
;
and
thinkest
thou
that
thou
canst
abide
the
sight
,
nay
the
company
,
and
continuall
familiarity
of
that
hellish
Cave
?
The
Lord
give
thee
a
heart
to
consider
of
this
fearefull
horror
before
it
betide
thee
,
and
to
goe
out
of
thy selfe
to
behold
the
strange
change
which
is
wrought
by
the
grave
and
sepulchre
.
The
fourth
is
,
the
incredible
horror
and
distresse
of
conscience
which
the
carnall
liver
sustaineth
by
the
sense
and
feeling
of
the
whole
wrath
of
God
powred
upon
him
for
ever
.
They
shall
goe
forth
and
looke
upon
the
carkases
▪
of
men
which
have
transgressed
against
me
,
for
their
worme
shall
not
die
,
neither
shall
their
fire
bee
quenched
,
and
they
shall
be
an
abhorring
to
all
flesh
.
In
respect
whereof
the
punishment
of
the
damned
is
likened
in
holy
Scripture
to
fire
,
gnashing
of
teeth
,
to
utter
darknesse
and
the
like
.
Not
as
if
these
were
sufficient
to
describe
it
,
for
what
can
declare
the
depth
of
that
which
hath
no
bottome
;
but
onely
by
these
most
fearefull
creatures
in
a
superficiall
manner
to
proportion
that
which
nothing
favoureth
.
For
as
the
joyes
of
heaven
are
unspeakable
;
So
are
also
the
torments
of
hell
,
and
therfore
why
doth
my
barbarous
tongue
endeavour
to
decipher
them
?
Deare
Christian
,
esteeme
of
my
words
not
as
the
full
size
of
the
thing
it selfe
,
but
as
a
slight
picture
,
or
a
briefe
draught
of
that
unutterable
volumne
of
all
misery
.
I
am
not
able
possibly
herein
to
shew
the
mystery
of
this
wonderfull
worke
made
by
the
Lord
,
of
purpose
to
set
forth
his
glory
in
justice
.
Yet
to
helpe
thy
consideration
,
which
is
nothing
serious
in
regard
of
the
thing
(
I
speake
it
also
to
the
shame
of
my selfe
)
I
would
faine
imprint
some
conceit
hereof
in
my
heart
,
that
might
make
way
to
a
second
thought
.
Wee
esteeme
horror
of
Conscience
a
matter
of
great
importance
,
because
the
most
of
us
in
these
fearefull
times
▪
are
possessed
with
secure
hearts
and
benummed
spirits
.
But
when
conscience
shall
once
be
throughly
wakened
,
like
a
wilde
beast
it
will
then
shew
his
fiery
eyes
,
and
take
thee
by
the
throat
.
No
torment
of
tenne
thousand
tyrants
like
unto
it
.
Doe
but
remember
in
what
feare
and
dread
sometimes
thou
seemest
to
be
,
when
in
a
sleepe
or
vision
,
a
glimpse
of
hell
flashings
are
presented
unto
thee
,
oh
how
thou
strivest
and
strugglest
,
how
thou
cryest
and
ravest
with
paine
?
Nay
,
how
glad
art
thou
thou
awakest
and
findest
it
to
bee
but
a
dreame
,
how
thou
tellest
thy
friend
as
much
as
thou
canst
,
(
but
alas
,
nothing
in
respect
of
what
thou
feltest
)
what
thinkest
thou
this
to
be
?
Certainely
the
groveling
of
the
Conscience
,
stirred
up
by
Sathan
of
purpose
to
overwhelme
the
godly
,
to
solicite
to
despaire
,
and
in
the
wicked
to
torment
them
before
their
time
;
yet
in
respect
of
God
,
a
most
friendly
admonition
for
by
this
a
man
is
suffered
in
a
vision
to
see
and
feele
the
torment
of
hell
,
to
know
the
price
of
Christs
blood
,
to
labour
by
all
meanes
possibly
to
make
sure
his
election
.
In
the
wicked
also
it
hath
this
use
.
I
could
never
have
thought
it
possible
for
a
mortall
man
to
have
beene
capable
of
that
measure
of
distresse
,
had
not
the
Lord
in
his
mercy
,
for
the
further
subduing
also
of
my
bedlame
flesh
,
suffered
mee
sometimes
to
behold
and
feele
the
flashings
of
hell
through
his
grace
,
causing
me
as
a
child
to
be
stilled
by
the
view
of
fearefull
beasts
.
If
then
in
a
dream
,
or
in
a
mans
life
time
there
may
bee
such
an
incredible
horror
,
that
it
may
cause
the
eyes
to
stare
,
the
tongue
to
rave
,
the
haire
to
stand
an
end
:
How
much
more
hideous
will
it
be
when
really
and
in
deede
with
perfect
knowledge
&
sense
broad
waking
,
we
shall
feele
the
strokes
of
the
Almighty
,
the
terrours
of
God
shall
lay
hold
of
us
.
In
consideration
whereof
,
in
the
name
of
God
,
as
you
tender
your
eternall
welfare
,
enter
into
the
examination
of
your selves
,
and
discerne
of
your
estates
whether
they
bee
carnall
or
no
;
cry
out
for
the
spirit
,
you
heare
what
the
Holy
Ghost
saith
,
If
you
walke
after
the
flesh
,
ye
shall
dye
,
How
strangely
doth
the
sentence
of
Corporall
death
appall
a
man
though
pronounced
by
a
wretch
like
himselfe
,
and
shall
not
the
doome
of
death
eternall
,
given
out
by
the
Holy
Ghost
at
all
astonish
you
?
Oh
let
not
Sathan
harden
your
hearts
,
resist
the
devill
,
and
he
will
flye
from
thee
:
It
is
a
Commandement
and
a
promise
;
What
faire
warnings
doth
God
give
unto
men
by
himselfe
and
Ministers
,
by
the
motions
of
his
Spirit
,
and
checkes
of
our
consciences
from
time
to
time
,
and
shall
we
bee
so
voide
of
grace
as
to
make
our selves
a
booty
for
Sathan
,
to
stand
still
while
he
deprives
us
of
our
lives
and
soules
and
all
?
Me
thinks
reason
should
something
prevaile
with
us
in
things
so
neerely
concerning
our
best
good
:
But
alas
,
a
hardened
heart
like
Pharaohs
,
a
flint
,
an
adamant
,
a
marble
spirit
:
no
admonition
will
serve
its
turn
,
where
grace
is
wanting
,
no
impression
takes
any
roote
:
Men
will
make
triall
and
then
beleeve
.
A
feareful
experience
this
is
,
thou
maist
first
try
in
an
earthly
cause
and
then
be
warned
;
but
from
hell
thou
canst
not
returne
.
Remember
Dives
,
credit
not
the
multitude
,
Olde
Tophet
is
wide
and
large
,
humble
thy selfe
therefore
betime
,
and
repent
of
thy
grievous
sinnes
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
But
if
ye
mortifie
:
As
before
the
Apostle
described
an
infallible
token
of
death
;
so
here
he
proceedeth
to
shew
in
like
manner
a
teckmerion
or
a
certaine
signe
of
life
,
and
that
is
the
killing
and
slaying
of
sinne
,
which
is
called
Mortification
.
as
seed
which
thou
sowest
is
not
quickened
before
it
die
:
or
,
this
corruptible
body
glorified
before
it
be
for
a
season
dead
and
buried
:
So
neither
is
the
man●ramed
●ramed
in
us
,
which
according
to
God
is
created
in
righteousnesse
and
true
holinesse
,
untill
the
olde
man
bee
wounded
and
laid
for
dead
in
us
;
which
like
a
gyant
standeth
up
to
expell
and
oppose
the
prosters
and
meanes
of
all
holinesse
.
And
this
is
the
cause
that
the
holy
Ghost
maketh
mention
onely
of
this
weakning
of
the
force
of
sin
,
through
the
death
and
buriall
of
Christ
,
not
excluding
the
other
part
of
sanctification
,
which
is
vivification
,
viz.
a
vertue
flowing
from
the
resurrection
of
Christ
,
causing
us
also
to
rise
to
newnesse
of
life
.
It
were
to
small
purpose
to
bring
place
upon
place
to
prove
that
,
which
through
the
whole
booke
of
God
is
so
cleerely
apparant
.
How
shall
we
that
are
dead
to
sin
live
yet
therein
?
They
that
are
Christs
have
crucified
the
flesh
with
the
affections
and
lusts
thereof
.
What
can
be
plainer
than
this
?
As
the
Physitian
first
purgeth
before
hee
giveth
a
restorative
,
so
every
one
that
shall
be
saved
hereafter
,
must
first
receive
an
allayer
of
his
corruption
here
;
he
must
first
be
launced
before
he
can
be
healed
.
You
may
know
the
body
of
sinne
in
all
his
particular
members
,
by
that
which
hath
beene
spoken
touching
the
Flesh.
Let
every
man
&
woman
here
present
examine
himselfe
from
top
to
toe
what
cure
is
wrought
by
the
spirit
in
his
soul
,
whether
the
kingdome
of
sinne
and
Sathan
be
demolished
and
weakned
,
and
the
Kingdome
of
Jesus
Christ
advanced
and
built
up
in
him
;
whether
corruption
dyes
,
and
grace
lives
in
his
heart
,
I
beseech
you
deale
faithfully
with
your
owne
soules
,
and
answer
me
directly
to
these
interrogatories
.
Are
thy
words
which
heretofore
have
beene
full
of
prophanenesse
and
worldlinesse
,
now
directed
to
Gods
glory
,
and
the
good
of
those
among
whom
thou
livest
?
Are
thy
thoughts
which
heretofore
were
loose
and
ungodly
,
now
bounded
within
a
sacred
compasse
,
and
spent
wholly
on
heavenly
things
?
Is
thy
understanding
informed
of
the
mysteries
of
Christs
Kingdome
?
Is
thy
memory
which
heretofore
hath
beene
stuffed
with
trash
and
toyes
,
now
capable
and
greedy
of
divine
knowledge
?
Doest
thou
order
every
passage
of
thy
life
,
by
direction
out
of
Gods
word
?
Art
thou
inwardly
conscionable
in
the
performance
of
holy
duties
?
Doth
the
tendernesse
of
thy
conscience
smite
thee
,
not
onely
for
grosse
and
open
sinnes
,
but
even
for
vaine
cogitations
,
and
the
least
appearance
of
any
evill
?
Art
thou
watchful
against
all
occasions
and
temptations
of
sinne
?
Doest
thou
feele
thy selfe
grow
and
increase
in
the
wayes
of
holinesse
?
Hast
thou
such
a
gracious
taste
of
the
glory
of
God
,
and
eternall
life
,
that
thou
desirest
to
meete
thy
Saviour
in
the
clouds
,
not
so
much
to
be
rid
out
of
the
miseries
of
this
life
,
as
to
bee
freed
from
the
heavy
burthen
of
sin
which
hangs
so
fast
upon
thee
?
In
a
word
,
doest
thou
so
judge
of
things
now
,
as
thou
wouldest
doe
hereafter
,
when
thy
soule
is
best
able
to
judge
,
as
in
the
houre
of
death
,
and
the
day
of
distresse
?
Doest
thou
approve
of
things
as
they
further
thy
last
account
?
as
they
commend
thee
more
or
lesse
unto
God
,
and
will
bring
true
peace
or
sorow
to
thy
soul
at
last
and
no
otherwise
;
then
blessed
and
happy
is
thy
condition
,
and
know
this
for
the
comfort
of
thy
soule
,
that
thou
art
dearely
beloved
of
God
,
yea
his
peculiar
one
,
and
precious
in
his
eyes
;
Sathan
and
all
the
powers
of
darknesse
are
fast
chained
up
for
ever
doing
thee
any
hurt
;
Thou
shalt
never
more
bee
afraid
of
evill
tidings
,
though
the
earth
be
moved
,
and
the
mountaines
fall
into
the
midst
of
the
Sea
,
yet
thy
heart
shall
abide
strong
and
comfortable
;
I
dare
boldly
pronounce
that
God
is
reconciled
unto
thee
,
and
that
his
sweete
love
which
never
changeth
hath
seized
on
thy
soule
.
What
will
it
availe
a
man
to
say
he
is
rich
(
like
the
bragging
Laodicean
)
and
yet
be
extreame
miserable
,
The
deeds
of
the
body
.
The
meaning
of
the
holy
Ghost
is
not
,
that
wee
should
cut
off
the
outward
acts
of
sinne
onely
(
like
many
a
dissembling
hypocrite
which
hath
the
gift
of
restraining
his
affections
that
they
breake
not
out
)
but
that
wee
should
kill
sinne
at
the
heart
and
in
the
cradle
,
then
shall
wee
make
sure
worke
and
never
hereafter
stand
in
feare
.
The
next
way
to
drench
the
conduit
,
is
to
dry
up
the
fountaine
:
In
vaine
dost
thou
loppe
sinne
unlesse
it
be
deprived
of
its
master
roote
.
It
may
be
thou
wilt
say
,
that
is
a
thing
impossible
.
Indeed
to
thee
which
art
wholly
evill
it
is
,
marke
therefore
what
followeth
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
By
the
Spirit
:
This
is
that
little
David
which
taketh
the
Goliah
of
our
corrupt
nature
and
choppeth
off
his
head
:
this
is
hee
that
bringeth
light
out
of
darknesse
,
life
out
of
death
,
which
shineth
as
a
starre
through
the
watry
clouds
of
humane
infirmitie
.
As
there
bee
divers
acceptations
of
the
word
flesh
,
so
also
of
the
Spirit
;
sometimes
it
is
taken
for
the
soule
,
sometimes
for
naturall
reason
;
but
that
is
not
here
meant
.
To
omit
all
other
constructions
,
the
word
Spirit
in
this
place
is
taken
for
that
created
quality
of
holinesse
which
by
the
holy
Ghost
is
so
wrought
in
the
minde
,
will
and
affections
of
a
man
whereby
the
power
and
force
of
sin
comes
to
be
abated
,
&
the
faculty
of
holines
&
inherent
sanctity
is
renewed
in
us
.
But
why
doth
the
Apostle
say
if
yee
mortifie
,
It
pleaseth
God
to
speake
of
things
,
the
deeds
of
the
body
,
but
it
is
by
the
spirits
helpe
:
the
strength
to
subdue
sinne
is
put
into
us
from
heaven
.
Wee
are
as
able
to
shake
the
foundation
of
the
earth
with
our
little
finger
,
as
to
shake
our
sin
by
our
owne
strength
.
Nature
will
not
slay
our
lusts
,
it
must
be
the
Spirit
of
Christ
:
corrupt
nature
labours
by
all
meanes
to
preserve
its
owne
being
.
Hee
that
goes
among
Lions
must
needs
be
torne
in
pieces
;
sinnes
are
Lions
and
will
soone
destroy
us
,
if
God
help
us
not
.
Mortification
of
sinne
is
possible
,
through
the
Spirits
assistance
,
otherwise
impossible
.
When
therefore
thou
feelest
pride
,
covetousnesse
,
lust
,
growing
upon
thee
,
looke
for
power
from
above
or
else
thou
art
undone
.
Pray
in
the
words
of
Iehosaphat
,
Lord
there
is
no
strength
in
mee
to
stand
against
these
sinnes
,
neither
doe
I
know
what
to
doe
,
but
mine
eyes
are
towards
thee
.
Alas
,
how
are
we
overcome
of
evill
,
whereas
we
should
overcome
evill
with
good
;
we
shake
at
the
very
noyse
of
temptation
,
and
give
in
presently
,
wee
have
power
over
our
eyes
,
tongues
or
thoughts
,
but
let
sinne
passe
in
and
out
at
pleasure
:
All
which
shews
how
nothing
wee
are
in
our selves
,
Sathan
and
the
world
are
too
strong
for
us
,
standing
in
our
owne
might
,
but
by
leaning
on
the
power
of
God
we
remaine
invincible
,
whatsoever
inordinatenesse
a
true
Christian
espies
,
hee
presently
endeavours
the
killing
through
the
efficacy
of
Christ
.
Indeed
passions
are
not
so
bridled
,
nor
corruptions
so
quelled
,
that
they
doe
not
stir
,
but
the
force
and
power
of
them
is
so
farre
subdued
,
that
they
shall
not
raigne
,
or
hale
us
ordinarily
to
that
which
is
euill
.
Hast
thou
been
long
kept
under
by
some
customary
vice
,
against
which
thou
hast
resolved
,
and
resolved
,
but
canst
not
prevaile
?
Get
thee
to
Christ
by
the
help
of
his
Spirit
,
thou
shalt
get
victory
over
all
thy
infirmities
.
Die
to
thy selfe
,
renounce
the
broken
reede
of
thine
owne
freewill
,
which
hath
so
often
deceived
thee
,
and
put
all
thy
trust
in
the
grace
of
Christ
,
that
will
crucifie
thy
olde
man
and
give
him
his
deaths
wound
,
be
weake
in
thy selfe
,
and
strong
in
the
Lord
,
and
through
his
might
thou
shalt
be
more
than
conquerour
.
As
faith
encreases
,
the
power
of
corruption
will
decay
and
languish
;
this
fires
the
heart
with
such
an
unquenchable
love
to
God
,
that
in
comparison
of
obedience
,
it
contemneth
the
whole
world
besides
.
It
puts
into
us
both
courage
and
constancy
,
to
fight
against
the
strongest
lusts
,
and
set
upon
the
practise
of
the
most
difficult
duties
,
notwithstanding
all
opposition
from
the
world
and
devill
;
yea
though
wee
have
beene
foyled
,
or
taken
the
repulse
.
Hee
will
not
feare
the
subduing
of
the
most
head-strong
passion
,
who
resteth
upon
God
for
power
and
abilitie
:
nor
bee
dismayed
because
once
hee
hath
received
a
foyle
,
who
depends
upon
God
for
strength
to
recover
:
nor
dread
the
might
of
his
greatest
adversary
,
who
knowes
that
God
will
bee
at
his
right
hand
to
sustaine
him
,
nor
start
aside
in
the
most
difficult
dutie
,
whose
heart
is
fast
linked
unto
the
Lord
,
and
relyeth
upon
his
grace
to
be
enabled
to
whatsoever
he
is
pleased
to
call
him
.
In
the
affaires
of
this
life
we
love
to
excell
,
and
outstrip
others
:
and
in
matters
of
Religion
to
bee
dead
and
lumpish
,
is
it
not
abominable
?
would
we
raigne
with
the
Saints
hereafter
,
and
not
labour
with
them
now
?
receive
the
price
and
not
runne
the
race
?
divide
the
spoile
and
not
fight
the
battle
?
The
Merchant
undertakes
dangerous
adventures
to
raise
his
estate
;
yet
alas
what
is
the
gold
of
India
to
the
joyes
of
heaven
?
a
fading
possession
to
an
eternall
weight
of
glory
?
When
once
we
discern
what
love
the
Lord
beareth
to
us
,
we
cannot
but
returne
love
for
love
;
when
a
man
considers
,
hath
Christ
given
himselfe
for
mee
,
forgiven
me
so
many
debts
,
conferred
favours
of
all
kindes
upon
mee
,
what
then
shal
I
retribute
to
him
againe
?
O
my
soule
,
why
doest
thou
not
resigne
thy selfe
to
the
pleasure
of
his
will
in
every
thing
,
run
when
he
calleth
,
and
doe
what
he
requireth
at
thy
hands
?
what
doest
thou
feare
?
wherewith
art
thou
entangled
?
God
is
thy
Father
and
Soveraigne
,
to
him
thou
owest
thy selfe
and
all
that
thou
hast
,
thy
honour
,
wealth
,
life
,
or
whatever
is
more
precious
then
those
.
Thou
canst
not
love
thy selfe
as
is
meete
,
if
thou
deny
not
thy selfe
to
follow
the
Lord
in
all
things
.
Is
there
any
thing
too
hard
tobedone
for
his
sake
?
too
deare
,
or
good
for
him
?
what
hast
thou
in
heaven
or
earth
worthy
to
be
affected
but
thy
Saviour
?
What
is
to
be
dreaded
but
his
displeasure
?
Is
there
any
recompence
to
the
joyes
of
heaven
?
any
danger
to
the
torments
of
hell
?
any
pleasure
to
the
sense
of
Gods
favour
?
Resolve
then
with
thy selfe
,
and
say
,
I
have
fully
purposed
to
observe
thy
commandements
,
for
they
are
the
joy
of
my
heart
,
but
Lord
I
leane
not
upon
mine
owne
strength
,
but
upon
thy
grace
,
who
givest
both
to
will
and
to
doe
;
thou
hast
commanded
me
to
keep
thy
testimonies
,
give
mee
I
pray
thee
to
doe
what
thou
requirest
.
Teach
me
the
way
of
thy
statutes
,
and
I
will
keepe
it
to
the
end
.
Some
understand
by
the
mortifying
of
sinne
,
not
onely
the
first
wound
which
it
receives
at
a
sinners
first
conversion
,
but
also
the
whole
practice
of
repentance
renewed
thorow
the
whole
course
of
a
mans
life
,
for
a
man
after
his
conversion
,
is
continually
to
lie
in
armes
against
his
owne
flesh
,
and
to
stir
up
the
spirit
with
the
forces
thereof
,
which
otherwise
will
bee
overwhelmed
with
the
adversary
,
not
able
to
maintaine
the
fight
.
For
Christians
(
whilest
they
are
here
)
are
not
wholly
flesh
,
nor
wholly
spirit
,
but
a
part
of
each
:
God
hath
placed
in
our
bodies
two
inmates
of
contrary
dispositions
,
two
strangers
of
divers
natures
and
qualities
(
not
in
the
highest
degree
,
for
then
they
would
utterly
expell
one
another
,
but
)
in
a
remisse
manner
,
which
causeth
this
bickering
and
skirmishing
in
our
inward
man
.
Now
whereas
every
one
whose
understanding
is
renewed
,
seeth
the
drift
of
his
flesh
(
however
thorow
the
deceit
thereof
he
doth
not
alwaies
feele
it
)
give
mee
leave
to
prescribe
some
few
directions
wherby
he
may
come
to
have
his
corruptions
subdued
,
and
temptations
vanquished
,
that
they
triumph
not
over
his
spirit
to
the
disquiet
of
his
conscience
.
That
which
I
shall
principally
commend
to
every
Christian
,
is
,
that
hee
buckle
about
him
the
compleat
armour
of
God
;
Resist
the
devill
and
he
will
fly
from
you
:
Repell
evill
motions
at
their
first
onset
,
if
wee
resist
at
the
beginning
the
worke
is
halfe
done
,
wee
shall
find
Sathan
a
coward
,
but
if
wee
resist
not
wee
shall
find
him
a
lyon
;
wee
must
trust
neither
our selves
nor
sathan
with
any
temptation
.
Begin
as
soon
as
the
temptation
begins
to
peepe
,
and
where
sathan
begins
doe
thou
begin
,
despise
not
the
least
sin
,
a
small
wound
may
kil
a
man
in
time
,
little
gashes
make
way
for
greater
.
If
the
enemy
assault
one
way
,
and
the
garrison
defend
another
way
,
the
towne
is
lost
.
Sathan
will
try
his
skill
,
and
doe
his
uttermost
to
prevaile
against
us
,
why
should
wee
not
then
improve
our
graces
to
make
head
against
him
?
we
may
preserve
our selves
from
being
conquered
by
him
,
though
we
cannot
utterly
subdue
him
.
There
is
no
possibility
of
remaining
safe
without
resistance
;
they
are
much
deceived
who
think
though
they
have
no
spirituall
armour
upon
them
they
may
rest
secure
.
Alas
what
can
a
naked
man
doe
?
hee
can
no
more
free
himselfe
from
the
power
of
the
devill
,
than
a
poore
silly
lambe
from
a
roaring
lyon
:
If
we
bee
foyled
the
fault
is
our
owne
,
for
God
gives
us
means
to
stand
fast
;
Who
would
not
be
kept
from
spiritual
wounds
&
hurts
,
from
eternall
bondage
to
sin
and
sathan
?
2.
Beware
of
pride
,
swelling
in
the
body
is
dangerous
,
so
is
it
in
the
soule
;
when
a
man
pleases
himselfe
with
his
owne
weldoing
,
his
heart
is
soone
puffed
up
.
Hee
that
thinkes
to
stand
by
his
owne
strength
shall
suddenly
fall
;
the
weakest
shall
be
able
to
overcome
their
greatest
enemies
being
under-propped
of
the
Lord
.
In
every
strong
encounter
we
must
look
for
supply
from
above
.
It
is
dangerous
to
looke
for
that
from
our selves
,
which
wee
must
have
from
Christ
.
All
our
strength
lies
in
him
,
as
Sampsons
did
in
his
haire
,
therefore
dependant
spirits
are
alwaies
the
best
.
Nothing
is
stronger
than
humility
,
that
goeth
out
of
it selfe
,
or
weaker
than
pride
that
,
resteth
upon
its
owne
bottome
.
Sathan
knowes
that
nothing
can
prevaile
against
Christ
,
or
those
that
relye
upon
him
,
therefore
hee
labours
to
keepe
men
in
selfe
dependancy
.
If
you
would
in
truth
mortifie
sinne
,
represent
it
to
your
thoughts
as
the
most
hurtfull
,
hatefull
and
most
loathsome
thing
in
the
world
,
and
represent
to
your
minde
the
obeying
of
Gods
will
,
as
the
most
sweete
,
profitable
,
and
excellentest
thing
whatsoever
,
and
then
you
cannot
but
shunne
the
one
and
embrace
the
other
:
for
,
Sinne
is
the
onely
object
of
Gods
infinite
hatred
,
he
hates
nothing
at
all
properly
but
iniquity
.
Now
what
a
bedlam
is
hee
who
willingly
commits
any
sinne
,
which
being
once
done
is
inseparably
attended
with
the
infinite
hatred
of
so
great
a
God
,
for
which
the
paines
of
hell
must
of
necessity
be
suffered
;
bee
suffered
either
by
the
party
himselfe
,
or
his
surety
.
Sinne
is
the
most
filthy
thing
in
the
world
;
even
fowler
than
the
foulest
fiend
in
hell
,
or
the
devill
himselfe
;
for
sinne
made
him
a
devill
and
sunke
him
into
hell
,
and
whatsoever
maketh
a
thing
evill
,
is
it selfe
much
more
evill
,
the
Sunne
lightens
all
other
bodies
,
is
it selfe
much
more
light
.
Hence
it
is
that
in
Scripture
it
is
compared
to
the
filthyest
myre
in
which
a
sow
lyes
downe
and
wallowes
,
It
is
likewise
very
infectious
,
corrupting
every
thing
comes
neere
it
.
The
first
sinne
that
ever
the
Sunne
saw
,
was
so
pregnant
with
soule-killing
poyson
,
that
it
polluted
all
the
sonnes
and
daughters
of
Adam
that
ever
were
since
:
At
the
first
breaking
out
thereof
it
suddenly
blasted
(
as
it
were
)
both
heaven
and
earth
,
staining
the
beauty
of
the
one
and
the
brightnesse
of
the
other
,
so
as
from
that
houre
the
whole
creation
hath
groaned
under
the
same
.
If
but
one
sinne
be
doted
upon
and
delighted
in
,
like
a
lumpe
of
leaven
it
sowres
all
the
soule
.
Yea
,
it
is
the
greatest
ill
that
can
befal
the
creature
,
greater
than
damnation
it selfe
.
A
man
would
thinke
it
a
lesser
ill
to
tell
a
lye
,
than
to
lye
in
hell
.
But
what
saith
a
Father
;
though
wee
thinke
hell
to
be
the
forest
of
all
evills
,
yet
I
thinke
it
is
farre
bitterer
and
more
grievous
to
offend
Christ
,
then
to
bee
tormented
with
the
torments
of
hell
.
Who
would
for
a
space
of
pleasure
here
,
deprive
himself
of
eternal
blisse
hereafter
?
of
the
unknowne
pleasures
of
an
appeased
conscience
,
a
Iewell
of
such
infinite
value
,
as
that
all
humane
glory
is
but
as
dust
in
the
ballance
to
it
?
In
the
day
of
tryall
the
comfort
of
a
good
conscience
will
bee
worth
ten
thousand
worlds
;
never
was
any
sound
joy
or
sanctified
peace
without
this
.
Who
art
thou
that
liftest
up
thy
proud
heart
against
the
Almighty
,
a
base
&
unworthy
worm
,
the
vilest
creature
that
ever
God
made
,
next
unto
the
devill
,
who
when
thy
breath
is
gone
(
which
may
fall
out
many
times
in
a
moment
)
thou
turnest
to
dust
,
rottennesse
,
and
filth
.
Oh
let
the
consideration
of
the
immortality
and
dearnesse
of
that
precious
soule
that
lyes
in
thy
bosome
,
curbe
thy
corruptions
and
make
thee
startle
at
sinne
.
Onely
sinne
wounds
the
soule
,
filling
it
with
the
pangs
of
death
though
it
never
dye
,
and
with
paine
,
not
onely
above
all
patience
,
but
all
resistance
.
Consider
the
infinite
and
inestimable
price
that
was
paid
for
sinne
,
I
meane
the
heart
blood
of
Jesus
Christ
,
blessed
for
ever
;
and
when
ever
thou
art
tempted
to
doe
wickedly
,
suppose
thou
seeest
thy
Saviour
comming
towards
thee
,
besmeared
with
goare
blood
,
and
speaking
thus
unto
thee
;
Oh
goe
not
forward
upon
any
termes
,
commit
not
this
sinne
by
any
meanes
,
it
was
that
which
drew
me
downe
from
the
fountaine
of
all
blisse
,
to
put
on
this
corruptible
and
miserable
flesh
,
to
drinke
off
the
dregs
of
the
bitter
cup
of
my
Fathers
wrath
,
to
wrastle
with
all
the
forces
of
infernall
powers
,
to
lay
downe
my
life
at
the
gates
of
hell
with
intolerable
paine
:
what
an
heart
hast
thou
,
if
thou
darest
goe
on
against
the
sweet
intreaty
of
so
sweet
a
Saviour
?
in
every
sinne
thou
committest
,
thou
layest
(
as
it
were
)
the
blood
of
Christ
in
one
scale
,
and
some
worldly
preferment
,
or
sensuall
vanity
in
the
other
,
and
shall
these
things
out-weigh
that
?
Moreover
,
labour
for
a
tender
and
wakefull
conscience
,
which
may
bee
sensible
of
the
least
offence
,
and
apprehensive
of
Gods
wrath
attending
the
same
;
what
hope
is
there
of
his
repentance
whose
conscience
is
seared
?
and
yet
how
busie
are
many
to
increase
their
owne
woe
,
by
putting
sinne
out
of
their
remembrance
?
Certainely
,
a
lively
conscience
,
that
shall
faithfully
present
us
with
an
exact
view
of
our
estates
,
is
a
great
blessing
;
if
it
were
not
so
,
why
should
God
threaten
the
Israelites
to
smite
them
with
blindnesse
,
with
a
stony
heart
,
meaning
,
that
hee
would
inflict
such
a
kinde
of
brawny
and
insensible
dulnesse
upon
them
,
that
in
doing
evill
,
they
should
bee
utterly
without
any
apprehension
of
their
misdoing
;
well
is
hee
that
hath
a
conscience
stirring
him
upon
the
least
sinne
,
that
will
awake
at
the
least
blow
;
and
performe
its
office
.
David
could
have
no
peace
till
he
had
made
his
peace
with
God
,
Sauls
garment
,
Lord
I
have
sinned
exceedingly
,
take
away
the
trespasse
of
thy
servant
,
for
I
have
done
very
foolishly
.
Had
his
conscience
beene
dull
and
hard
,
what
security
would
have
crept
upon
him
?
what
carelessenesse
to
become
a
petitioner
to
God
for
mercy
?
Never
therefore
turne
thine
eyes
from
beholding
that
which
conscience
offers
to
thy
view
.
Alas
,
conscience
doth
nothing
of
it selfe
,
but
by
speciall
authority
and
commission
from
God
,
whose
deputy
it
is
.
Yet
it
is
possible
to
turne
that
which
of
it self
is
a
blessing
,
into
a
curse
:
It
is
a
blessing
to
live
under
a
faithfull
Ministery
,
yet
if
a
man
bee
not
a
doer
of
the
word
,
but
a
hearer
onely
,
he
may
increase
his
owne
judgement
thereby
.
When
men
come
to
the
Ordinance
,
their
consciences
are
many
times
wrought
upon
more
strongly
than
they
would
,
now
it
is
good
simply
for
the
conscience
thus
to
run
and
it
is
a
token
of
Gods
great
love
unto
man
to
furnish
his
minde
with
such
a
reflecting
faculty
upon
himselfe
.
But
here
lyes
the
mischiefe
,
many
deale
with
their
consciences
as
rich
men
doe
with
an
earnest
beggar
,
or
as
great
men
with
an
importunate
petitioner
,
whom
they
will
make
as
if
they
did
not
heare
,
and
passe
along
by
without
regard
,
when
their
heart
smites
they
will
not
answere
,
when
it
brings
sinne
to
their
sight
,
they
turne
their
heads
aside
and
will
not
behold
it
.
If
they
find
by
experience
that
when
they
are
alone
their
conscience
use
to
encounter
them
,
they
furnish
themselves
with
vain
and
wretched
company
,
such
as
wil
be
sure
to
give
conscience
no
leisure
to
speak
.
If
the
word
of
God
any
whit
awakens
them
and
stirres
up
conscience
to
doe
its
office
,
they
thrust
it
from
their
remembrance
by
worldly
thoughts
and
cares
,
or
sleepe
it
out
that
they
may
not
be
disquieted
.
The
poore
conscience
must
bee
conscience
off
till
another
time
,
(
as
Paul
was
when
hee
disputed
with
Faelix
)
doest
thou
well
to
be
angry
?
Dost
thou
wel
to
be
thus
carnall
and
earthly
,
thus
eager
upon
the
world
,
thus
cold
and
indifferent
in
holy
duties
?
conscience
gives
privy
nips
and
secret
checks
.
It
1.
points
with
the
finger
and
gives
direction
,
if
it
be
neglected
,
it
smites
with
the
fist
and
gives
correction
.
Therefore
if
ever
thou
desirest
that
sinne
should
dye
,
and
grace
flourish
in
thy
heart
,
despise
not
conscience
when
it
speaketh
;
doth
it
presse
thee
to
any
workes
of
piety
,
reformation
of
abuses
,
selfe-deniall
,
&c.
in
any
case
embrace
his
counsels
.
Hearken
to
this
preacher
whom
thou
canst
not
suspect
of
partiality
or
ill
will
,
conscience
cannot
be
suspected
to
be
set
on
by
others
.
Doth
it
chide
and
reproch
thee
of
thy
waies
?
doth
it
punctually
arrest
thee
of
thy
particular
beloved
sinnes
,
doe
not
extenuate
,
much
lesse
defend
thy
crime
,
but
accuse
thy selfe
as
fast
as
that
accuses
,
acknowledge
thy
folly
,
abase
thy
spirit
,
and
covenant
with
thy
conscience
a
full
and
speedy
reformation
.
If
this
were
done
,
how
soone
would
Sathans
kingdome
be
demolished
,
and
all
corruption
weakned
in
us
.
But
alas
,
how
few
regard
the
voice
of
conscience
,
or
once
hearken
to
it
?
the
very
want
of
this
sets
open
a
floodgate
of
wickednesse
in
the
world
.
If
men
cannot
stop
consciences
mouth
,
they
will
at
least
stoppe
their
own
eares
.
If
Conscience
offer
to
be
talking
with
them
,
they
shuffle
it
off
till
their
better
leisure
.
Alas
poore
soule
,
God
will
one
day
strippe
thee
of
all
thy
imployments
,
and
turne
thee
loose
to
thy
conscience
,
and
it
shall
have
liberty
to
baite
thee
and
bite
thee
at
pleasure
.
How
much
better
is
it
to
be
willing
to
hearken
to
the
voice
of
conscience
here
,
than
bee
forced
to
heare
it
in
hell
hereafter
?
Hearken
to
the
reproofes
and
admonitions
of
it
now
and
thou
shalt
not
heare
the
dolefull
clamours
of
it
then
.
Further
,
set
faith
a
work
to
conquer
your
corruptions
;
that
wil
doe
wonders
if
wee
apply
the
victory
which
Christ
hath
made
for
us
:
though
we
be
cowards
he
was
not
,
and
what
ever
he
did
it
was
for
us
.
Hee
stood
in
our
place
&
beat
Sathan
to
our
hands
.
What
if
Sathan
beat
mee
may
a
Christian
say
,
since
Christ
in
my
stead
hath
beaten
him
all
to
peeces
?
I
have
long
agoe
overcome
Sathan
in
my
head
:
In
Christ
my
Captaine
hee
is
a
vanquished
enemy
;
faith
makes
his
victory
ours
,
and
sets
him
against
every
tentation
;
we
are
not
so
weake
in
the
hands
of
Sathan
,
as
Sathan
is
in
the
hands
of
Christ
;
therefore
is
faith
said
to
bee
our
victory
,
resist
Sathan
,
stedfast
in
the
faith
,
he
shall
flye
.
If
Christians
bee
not
perswaded
that
God
will
mortifie
their
corruptions
,
they
will
very
much
at
their
manifold
slips
,
be
off
and
on
,
and
coldly
imbrace
religious
courses
?
Alas
,
our
owne
strength
is
too
weake
for
the
work
of
holinesse
,
to
represse
and
vanquish
the
lusts
of
our
rebellious
hearts
,
which
are
by
nature
and
custome
so
deepely
polluted
with
sinne
.
If
wee
have
not
faith
to
beleeve
that
God
will
aide
and
blesse
our
endeavours
and
doe
the
whole
worke
for
us
,
what
courage
can
we
have
to
goe
about
it
?
What
shameful
foyles
and
repulses
shall
we
sustaine
in
it
.
Hee
will
manfully
fight
against
his
lust
,
that
is
assured
of
victory
from
God
in
the
end
.
It
is
a
great
heartning
to
resist
evill
,
or
to
doe
any
good
duty
,
when
wee
beleeve
God
will
be
with
us
,
and
helpe
us
therein
.
Faith
acquaints
a
man
with
his
emptinesse
of
grace
,
how
unable
hee
is
to
crucifie
his
inordinate
affections
,
or
to
repaire
the
decayed
image
of
God
in
him
,
and
that
he
is
in
a
wofull
case
,
unlesse
the
Lord
put
to
his
helping
.
What
profits
pardon
of
sinne
,
to
one
that
lyes
under
the
power
and
dominion
of
sinne
?
Therefore
a
true
beleever
fights
couragiously
against
his
corruptions
,
and
cryeth
instantly
to
the
Lord
for
helpe
:
though
the
combate
be
never
so
hot
,
hee
will
not
yeelde
,
because
hee
apprehends
victory
;
for
grace
doth
flow
from
Christ
into
our
hearts
more
or
lesse
,
as
our
faith
is
weaker
or
stronger
,
though
we
have
no
grace
of
our selves
,
yet
if
wee
cleave
to
him
wee
shall
want
none
.
Doth
the
streaming
fountaine
deny
water
to
the
thirsty
traveller
?
No
more
doth
Christ
to
the
empty
parched
soule
,
that
comes
unto
him
.
Hee
is
an
overflowing
fountaine
,
his
grace
is
unsearchable
,
his
store
can
never
bee
diminished
.
Hee
filleth
the
empty
,
and
satisfieth
the
poore
,
that
he
might
bee
acknowledged
the
well-spring
of
all
grace
and
goodnesse
.
Lastly
,
be
sure
to
keepe
the
flesh
under
,
by
stopping
all
passages
of
provision
for
it
,
cleere
thy
minde
of
sinfull
cogitations
,
blot
out
of
thy
memory
ribald
speeches
,
and
obscene
jests
,
preserve
thy
heart
from
unlawfull
lusts
,
wicked
desires
,
and
unruly
passions
.
Keepe
thine
appetite
from
intemperance
and
excesse
,
thy
tongue
from
corrupt
communication
,
thine
eares
from
ungodly
and
dishonest
discourses
,
thine
eyes
from
waton
&
wicked
objects
,
and
finally
,
thy
body
from
sloth
and
idlenesse
,
effeminate
delicacie
and
carnall
pleasures
.
It
fares
with
the
flesh
and
the
spirit
as
with
two
mortall
enemies
in
the
field
,
hee
that
by
any
meanes
aideth
and
strengtheneth
the
one
,
doth
thereby
make
way
for
weakening
of
the
other
.
Hee
that
joyneth
with
the
flesh
doth
oppose
the
spirit
,
and
hee
that
standeth
on
the
spirits
side
,
doth
bring
the
flesh
into
captivity
.
Who
would
strengthen
an
enemie
to
oppugne
himselfe
?
wee
give
stings
and
weapons
to
the
flesh
,
arming
it
against
the
spirit
,
when
as
wee
pamper
the
body
with
delicacy
,
inflame
it
with
wine
,
handle
it
daintily
,
and
nourish
inticements
and
provocations
to
lust
in
it
.
If
the
flesh
be
full
fed
it
will
despise
the
Spirit
,
and
commit
many
outrages
in
a
Christian
soule
.
Yea
it
will
waxe
proud
and
insolent
,
foyle
the
regenerate
part
,
and
force
it
to
live
in
miserable
slavery
.
Better
to
become
a
swine-heard
with
the
prodigall
,
than
to
bee
a
servant
to
our
base
lusts
.
The
heathen
could
say
,
he
was
borne
to
more
noble
ends
,
than
to
bee
a
slave
to
his
owne
body
,
and
shall
not
our
spirits
bee
elevated
to
a
higher
pitch
of
excellency
than
his
,
as
having
God
for
our
Father
,
and
Christ
for
our
elder
brother
?
which
of
us
enobled
by
birth
,
and
liberally
brought
up
,
being
clothed
with
lothsome
some
ragges
,
and
defiled
with
noysome
excrements
,
would
not
hastily
strippe
them
off
,
and
with
indignation
cast
them
away
?
This
flesh
of
ours
doth
us
more
mischiefe
than
the
devill
himselfe
,
alas
,
hee
could
never
hurt
us
,
were
we
not
first
betrayed
by
this
inbred
enemy
,
yea
it
is
worse
then
hell
and
damnation
,
as
being
the
cause
of
both
,
without
it
hell
were
no
hell
,
neither
could
destruction
fasten
upon
us
.
All
the
outrages
and
horrible
crimes
which
are
committed
in
the
world
,
may
challenge
the
flesh
for
their
chiefe
cause
and
author
.
It
was
this
that
pierced
our
Saviours
hands
and
feete
,
&
which
moveth
men
daily
to
crucifie
him
afresh
,
and
trample
his
precious
blood
under
their
filthy
feet
;
and
can
we
finde
in
our
hearts
to
have
any
peace
or
truce
with
such
a
malicious
enemy
?
shall
we
not
rather
with
implacable
rage
,
and
constant
resolution
,
assault
,
pursue
,
and
wound
it
to
the
death
?
shall
we
not
rather
take
part
with
the
Spirit
,
in
warring
against
the
flesh
,
and
disfurnish
all
provision
and
munition
from
the
one
,
that
the
other
may
be
furnished
with
all
necessaries
?
Our
spirit
is
the
better
part
,
and
should
bee
most
regarded
;
Who
would
deprive
his
soule
of
so
sweet
a
guest
,
to
entertaine
inordinate
lusts
?
The
more
familiar
Sampson
was
with
Dalilah
,
the
more
was
God
a
stranger
to
him
.
For
the
weaknes
of
the
flesh
encreaseth
the
strength
of
the
spirit
,
even
as
contrariwise
,
the
strength
of
the
flesh
bringeth
weaknesse
to
the
spirit
,
and
indeed
what
wonder
is
it
,
for
a
man
to
be
made
stronger
,
by
the
weakening
of
his
enemy
?
who
would
purchase
the
pleasure
of
a
base
sinne
at
so
high
a
rate
,
as
to
lose
the
comfortable
society
of
Gods
blessed
Spirit
?
what
meanest
thou
to
admit
such
a
mate
into
thy
heart
with
which
Gods
spirit
cannot
sort
?
It
may
bee
thou
wilt
not
rudely
bid
him
get
out
of
doores
,
yet
thou
mayest
weary
him
forth
,
by
welcomming
such
guests
into
thy
soule
,
as
he
can
no
wayes
brook
.
Oughtest
thou
not
much
rather
to
crucifie
the
flesh
,
and
walke
in
the
spirit
,
that
so
thou
mayest
not
fulfill
the
lusts
thereof
?
doth
not
God
call
upon
thee
to
slay
thy
corruptions
,
to
doe
thy
best
,
not
onely
to
subdue
them
,
but
to
put
them
to
death
;
encouraging
thee
thereunto
by
a
gracious
promise
:
that
if
through
the
spirit
,
thou
doest
mortifie
the
deeds
of
the
body
,
thou
shalt
live
,
both
the
life
of
grace
here
,
and
of
glory
hereafter
?
What
is
the
use
of
all
this
but
to
stir
us
to
looke
about
us
,
We
must
resist
unto
bloud
,
and
bee
faithfull
unto
the
death
,
if
ever
we
expect
the
crowne
of
life
.
He
that
prevaileth
in
some
conflicts
,
and
is
at
length
vanquished
,
cannot
be
said
to
overcome
.
Saul
fought
many
of
the
Lords
battels
valiantly
,
but
hee
withdrew
himselfe
,
and
the
Lord
forsooke
him
;
though
thou
hast
done
much
,
yet
give
not
over
so
long
as
there
remains
any
thing
to
be
done
.
Consider
not
what
conflicts
have
beene
endured
,
as
how
many
are
still
to
bee
encountred
:
Regard
what
is
to
come
,
rather
than
what
is
past
;
timerously
to
cease
from
resisting
temptation
,
is
dangerous
to
our selves
,
and
dishonorable
to
God
;
it
maketh
Sathan
to
insult
over
us
,
and
get
advantage
against
us
;
let
us
not
thinke
if
we
yeeld
the
field
,
the
devil
will
bee
contented
.
It
is
not
the
glory
of
conquest
that
he
seeketh
so
much
as
our
destruction
;
which
when
I
consider
,
I
cannot
but
bewaile
the
naked
condition
of
many
persons
,
who
suffer
their
armour
to
hang
on
the
wals
and
rust
,
never
putting
it
on
to
any
use
.
Alas
,
what
benefit
can
come
by
a
thing
that
lies
dead
?
doe
we
thinke
we
stand
in
no
need
of
it
?
or
that
God
made
this
defence
in
vain
?
experienced
Christians
find
the
contrary
.
How
may
a
man
know
that
grace
hath
gotten
the
upper
hand
,
Dost
thou
loath
nothing
more
than
thy
former
spirituall
bondage
?
Grace
cannot
stand
with
the
regiment
of
sin
:
That
person
in
whom
grace
is
truly
wrought
,
desires
to
bee
furnished
with
the
compleat
armour
of
God
,
that
he
may
resist
the
devill
;
the
strength
and
bent
of
his
will
and
affections
are
for
God
and
goodnes
;
hee
chooseth
holinesse
with
a
full
purpose
and
resolution
to
walke
in
it
;
he
turnes
from
his
former
evils
with
a
detestation
of
them
,
and
leaves
them
with
a
resolution
never
to
take
them
up
againe
;
he
daily
prayes
,
and
cryes
earnestly
to
God
for
strength
against
corruption
,
and
wisheth
,
O
that
my
wayes
were
so
directed
,
that
I
might
keepe
thy
statutes
.
He
is
not
for
God
to
day
,
and
the
devil
to
morrow
.
Hee
is
no
Morning
Saint
,
and
evening
Devil
,
but
desires
continually
to
walke
with
God
in
all
well
pleasing
.
A
Gracious
heart
keepes
a
constant
warre
with
his
lusts
,
the
law
of
his
members
is
evermore
rebelling
against
the
law
of
his
minde
.
Howsoever
upon
the
assault
of
some
furious
temptation
,
(
haply
)
hee
may
be
wounded
and
taken
prisoner
by
some
raging
lust
,
which
imperiously
treads
and
tramples
upon
him
;
yet
doth
hee
not
yeelde
and
give
himselfe
over
to
the
power
of
lust
.
Grace
within
bestirs
it selfe
,
the
heart
sighes
and
groanes
and
seekes
to
God
for
succour
.
If
thy
case
be
thus
,
that
thou
abhorrest
Sathan
and
his
snares
,
that
thou
delightest
in
the
law
of
God
concerning
the
inner
man
,
Doth
not
the
feare
of
God
in
you
(
though
sometimes
driven
from
its
station
)
still
dwell
as
controuler
in
your
soule
,
represse
refractory
thoughts
and
affections
,
and
sway
your
heart
against
the
naturall
inclination
,
that
you
may
keepe
Gods
word
,
that
though
you
bee
interlaced
with
the
flesh
,
yet
you
give
the
guidance
of
your
life
to
the
holy
Ghost
,
loving
that
he
may
have
the
principality
in
you
?
I
am
content
to
doe
thy
will
,
yea
thy
law
is
within
my
heart
.
Doest
thou
lay
hold
upon
good
thoughts
and
desires
so
soone
as
they
offer
themselves
unto
thee
,
welcomming
them
in
the
kindest
manner
into
thy
heart
,
and
constraining
them
by
a
respective
usage
to
stay
still
with
thee
?
so
soone
as
any
good
motion
arises
,
doest
thou
(
feare
the
deceitfulnesse
of
thy
heart
,
and
)
pray
with
David
,
knit
my
heart
;
this
fickle
fugitive
heart
of
mine
is
alwayes
ready
to
steale
from
thee
,
knit
it
O
Lord
,
and
tye
it
fast
unto
thy selfe
,
that
as
it
is
now
with
thee
,
so
it
may
still
continue
.
O
Lord
keep
this
frame
of
the
thoughts
of
thy
servants
heart
for
ever
.
Are
thy
failings
,
matter
of
daily
humiliation
unto
thy
soule
?
Doest
thou
finde
and
feele
that
nothing
under
the
Sunne
,
more
stings
and
pierces
thy
soule
,
than
to
be
now
and
then
overtaken
with
sinfull
passions
,
or
carried
away
with
the
swinge
of
any
corruptions
,
against
thy
godly
purpose
and
resolutions
?
Doest
thou
love
righteousnesse
it selfe
,
as
righteousnesse
,
bee
the
thing
and
subject
of
never
so
small
a
nature
?
And
dost
thou
hate
sinne
,
as
sinne
,
bee
it
never
so
little
in
thine
eye
?
Is
the
one
precious
to
thee
for
his
sake
whom
it
resembles
,
and
the
other
loathsome
because
it
opposes
the
Almighty
?
Doest
thou
obey
God
out
of
a
love
of
goodnesse
,
seeing
a
beauty
in
the
wayes
of
holinesse
,
being
humbled
when
thou
hast
done
thy
best
,
that
thou
canst
bring
no
more
glory
to
him
,
&
dost
thou
love
righteous
men
for
righteousnesse
sake
?
Is
thy
service
ready
and
cheerefull
,
without
repining
and
delay
?
Canst
thou
be
content
to
obey
against
profit
,
pleasure
,
credit
,
liberty
,
ease
,
the
liking
of
the
world
,
or
carnall
friends
,
preferring
Gods
commandements
above
all
things
,
yea
life
it selfe
?
But
art
thou
quick
sighted
into
the
faults
of
others
,
and
indulgent
towards
thine
owne
,
it
is
an
ill
symptome
.
The
best
men
are
most
severe
against
themselves
,
and
tender
over
others
.
A
gracious
heart
dislikes
sinne
in
any
,
but
in
himselfe
most
of
all
.
He
is
very
backward
in
censuring
others
,
but
exceeding
forward
in
accusing
himself
.
None
can
say
so
much
against
him
,
but
he
is
ready
to
say
much
more
.
He
loveth
goodnesse
in
the
greatest
enemie
,
and
hateth
sin
even
in
the
greatest
friend
.
Art
thou
conscionable
of
the
least
offence
,
as
wel
as
the
greatest
,
cherishing
an
universall
hatred
of
all
sinne
in
thy
soule
,
whether
secret
or
open
,
without
exception
,
and
carying
a
constant
purpose
and
resolution
in
nothing
willingly
to
sinne
against
God
;
but
whatsoever
thou
knowest
to
be
a
sin
thou
wilt
not
deliberately
doe
it
for
all
the
world
,
at
all
times
,
and
in
all
places
,
though
no
eye
sees
thee
,
and
it
may
be
beneficiall
unto
thee
?
Here
is
a
notable
signe
that
grace
hath
gotten
the
upper
hand
,
when
as
thou
preferrest
vertue
before
vice
,
even
then
when
in
humane
reason
,
vertue
will
be
the
loser
,
and
vice
the
gainer
.
An
unsound
conscience
is
large
,
and
can
swallow
downe
any
thing
;
the
sincere
conscience
is
strait
,
and
the
least
bone
,
though
but
such
as
are
in
little
fishes
,
will
sticke
in
her
throat
.
Neglect
of
smaller
matters
may
justly
bring
our
obedience
in
greater
matters
in
suspition
;
the
same
God
that
requires
our
fidelity
in
the
one
,
requires
it
also
in
the
other
.
A
gracious
heart
,
is
like
the
eye
,
troubled
with
the
least
more
,
&
certainly
hee
that
is
unjust
in
a
little
,
will
bee
also
unjust
in
much
.
Is
the
uprightnesse
of
others
of
Gods
servants
,
more
highly
esteemed
by
thee
than
thine
owne
?
Doest
thou
see
greater
excellencies
in
them
than
in
thy selfe
?
Feelest
thou
no
bottome
in
other
mens
praises
,
when
thy
heart
tells
all
is
not
well
within
.
An
humble
Christian
hides
himselfe
in
the
closet
,
and
as
in
prayer
,
so
in
all
good
duties
shuts
the
doore
,
he
is
much
affected
with
a
sense
of
his
owne
infirmities
,
resting
it selfe
wholly
upon
the
power
of
God
,
to
be
perfected
in
her
weaknesse
,
and
is
many
times
more
humbled
,
for
the
mixtures
and
defilements
of
good
workes
,
than
for
some
workes
simply
evill
in
themselves
;
he
desires
to
be
good
,
rather
then
to
be
thought
so
.
Are
the
sinnes
of
others
,
and
the
sorrowes
of
the
Church
,
as
sensible
and
bitter
to
thy
soule
,
as
thine
owne
?
Canst
thou
forget
thy selfe
,
and
thy
particular
businesse
to
lay
these
to
heart
?
Doest
thou
rejoyce
alwayes
to
be
crossing
and
thwarting
thy selfe
in
those
succours
,
and
supports
of
sinne
which
thy
corruption
suggests
?
Is
that
experience
which
thou
hast
of
sinne
,
and
of
grace
,
no
dead
but
a
stirring
experience
,
quickening
thee
to
duty
,
and
mortifying
corruption
in
thee
,
so
as
not
onely
knowledge
,
but
conscience
also
swayes
thee
to
Christian
duties
?
and
art
thou
as
carefull
to
persevere
in
grace
,
as
once
to
imbrace
it
,
these
are
good
signes
.
Cheere
up
therefore
thy
drooping
spirit
,
the
Lord
by
the
power
of
his
grace
hath
tooke
possession
of
thee
.
Nothing
but
grace
alone
,
is
able
to
keep
the
love
of
sinne
out
of
the
heart
,
though
peradventure
some
other
thing
may
keepe
it
out
of
thy
hand
.
Civility
and
hypocrisie
may
a
little
snib
sinne
,
or
bid
it
for
a
while
stand
aside
,
and
give
way
to
better
things
,
but
it
is
onely
grace
that
strikes
this
Goliah
dead
.
It
is
onely
the
spirit
which
subdues
the
flesh
.
But
wee
must
know
,
there
is
a
great
deale
of
difference
,
betweene
forsaking
of
sinne
,
through
the
strength
and
power
of
grace
,
and
for
other
carnall
ends
and
by-respects
;
for
an
hypocrite
may
sometimes
forsake
sinne
,
(
not
out
of
any
love
to
God
,
or
hatred
of
ill
,
but
)
because
sinne
leaves
him
,
happily
hee
feares
it
will
bee
some
losse
or
discredit
to
him
,
or
else
fit
meanes
and
opportunity
of
committing
it
,
serve
not
his
turne
,
and
therefore
hee
forbeares
.
It
is
nothing
for
a
man
to
bee
chast
,
where
there
is
no
provocation
to
uncleanenesse
.
Here
was
the
tryall
of
Iosephs
integrity
,
that
though
the
occasion
were
offered
by
his
owne
Mistresse
to
doe
the
deed
,
in
such
secresie
and
security
that
no
eye
perceived
it
,
yet
the
feare
of
God
overruled
him
.
Many
seem
to
bee
meeke
and
moderate
men
,
while
they
are
well
dealt
with
,
but
let
some
injury
bee
offered
and
the
contrary
will
appeare
:
That
wee
are
indeed
,
which
wee
are
in
temptation
;
Examine
thy
heart
then
in
this
particular
,
what
is
the
ground
of
that
divorce
which
seems
to
bee
betwixt
thee
,
and
thy
olde
lusts
?
If
it
flowes
from
any
thing
in
the
world
,
but
the
love
of
God
and
goodnesse
,
thou
art
in
a
wretched
condition
,
be
thy
thoughts
of
thy selfe
never
so
pleasing
.
Art
thou
one
whose
heart
likes
well
of
sinne
,
though
thou
canst
not
or
darest
not
commit
it
?
Art
thou
one
who
when
thou
art
convinced
and
rebuked
of
thy
failings
,
thy
heart
riseth
against
the
reproofe
,
though
for
thy
credit
,
and
profit
sake
,
thou
seemest
to
welcome
,
and
thankfully
entertaine
the
same
.
I
tell
thee
thou
art
in
a
dangerous
condition
,
thou
hast
but
weake
and
slender
evidence
of
the
spirits
prevailing
in
thy
heart
.
But
why
saith
the
Apostle
here
,
yee
shall
dye
,
and
not
,
yee
shall
be
damned
;
in
as
much
as
that
is
chiefly
meant
?
Because
the
Spirit
of
God
would
drive
men
from
sinne
,
The
opposition
made
here
by
the
Apostle
warnes
us
,
that
a
necessity
lyes
upon
us
to
mortifie
our
sinfull
lusts
.
It
stands
upon
our
lives
,
unlesse
we
slay
sinne
,
sinne
will
not
faile
to
slay
us
.
It
is
like
a
Serpent
in
our
bosome
which
cannot
live
,
but
by
sucking
out
that
blood
whereby
wee
live
.
What
pittiful
folly
is
this
?
we
hate
them
which
pursue
our
bodily
life
,
we
eschew
them
by
all
meanes
that
would
spoile
us
of
our
worldly
goods
,
onely
wee
cannot
hate
Sathan
to
the
death
,
who
seekes
by
sinne
to
spoyle
us
of
eternall
life
.
That
same
commandement
which
was
given
to
Adam
and
Eve
,
If
ye
eate
of
the
forbidden
tree
ye
shall
dye
,
is
in
effect
here
given
to
us
all
,
If
you
live
after
the
flesh
you
shall
dye
;
let
not
us
make
an
exception
where
God
hath
made
none
;
every
sinne
to
us
is
that
forbidden
tree
to
Adam
,
if
wee
meddle
with
it
,
we
shall
finde
no
better
fruit
than
he
found
:
Bitter
death
growes
upon
the
pleasant
tree
of
sinne
,
for
the
wages
of
sinne
is
death
.
It
is
therefore
a
point
of
great
wisdome
to
discerne
betweene
the
deceit
of
sinne
,
and
the
fruit
of
sinne
.
Hee
that
would
rightly
know
the
face
of
sinne
when
it
stands
before
him
,
to
tempt
him
,
let
him
looke
backe
to
the
taile
of
that
sinne
which
he
hath
already
committed
,
and
the
sting
which
it
leaves
behinde
it
.
The
perishing
pleasures
of
sin
are
paid
home
with
everlasting
perdition
;
it
is
done
in
a
moment
,
but
brings
forth
death
,
and
breeds
a
worme
that
will
never
die
.
Men
may
sleep
in
their
sinne
,
but
their
damnation
sleepes
not
.
Every
mans
state
in
this
life
,
is
a
prediction
of
that
condition
which
hee
shall
have
hereafter
.
Hee
that
soweth
to
the
flesh
,
shall
of
the
flesh
reape
corruption
,
but
hee
that
soweth
to
the
spirit
,
shall
reape
immortality
and
life
.
No
man
commeth
to
heaven
,
or
hell
,
but
by
the
way
that
leads
thereunto
.
A
wicked
life
is
a
thorow-way
to
the
place
of
darknesse
.
But
a
godly
life
is
the
direct
path
to
salvation
.
As
the
tree
fals
,
so
it
lyes
,
and
it
commonly
falls
on
that
side
,
which
did
most
bend
towards
the
earth
before
:
if
the
greatest
growth
of
our
affections
and
actions
,
spring
out
after
the
spirit
,
no
doubt
,
we
shall
fall
on
the
right
hand
and
be
blessed
;
but
if
otherwise
they
grow
downeward
,
and
thou
live
after
the
flesh
,
assuredly
thou
shalt
fall
on
the
left
hand
and
perish
irrecoverably
.
Wee
shall
not
be
judged
according
to
the
particular
instant
of
our
death
,
but
according
to
our
general
course
of
life
;
〈◊〉
according
to
our
deeds
in
that
present
,
but
according
to
the
desires
of
our
hearts
before
.
But
seeing
they
who
walke
after
the
flesh
are
dead
already
,
You
shall
die
?
I
answer
,
Hee
that
knowes
any
thing
of
the
narrow
way
to
heaven
,
of
the
nature
of
Gods
justice
,
and
the
cunning
sleights
of
Satan
,
of
the
difficulty
of
true
repentance
,
and
how
fearfully
mans
heart
is
hardned
,
by
custome
and
continuance
in
sinne
,
would
not
delay
making
peace
with
God
,
till
his
last
houres
,
for
ten
thousand
worlds
.
Which
when
I
consider
,
carnall
men
have
set
themselves
to
worke
all
manner
of
sinne
with
greedinesse
,
but
even
they
which
heretofore
have
probably
seemed
to
mortifie
the
deeds
of
the
body
,
doe
now
renue
the
battle
,
and
are
in
outward
view
reconciled
and
shake
hands
with
the
flesh
:
Now
are
the
dayes
wherein
the
love
of
many
shall
waxe
cold
,
when
men
shall
bee
lovers
of
themselves
,
lovers
of
pleasure
more
then
lovers
of
God
.
Oh
how
is
the
Spirit
quenched
,
and
the
flesh
inflamed
every
where
?
shew
me
the
man
that
truly
endeavours
the
suppressing
of
sinne
.
Oh
this
is
a
hard
taske
,
it
requireth
much
patience
,
and
vigilancie
,
and
will
bring
no
small
paine
and
sorrow
to
the
flesh
in
the
end
.
What
then
?
be
not
dismayed
,
thy
future
peace
will
more
then
recompense
thy
present
trouble
.
What
availes
a
little
outward
flashy
joy
,
when
the
conscience
is
disquieted
and
vexed
within
?
who
would
redeeme
a
moment
of
pleasure
,
with
eternity
of
paine
?
All
is
but
bitter
sweetes
,
so
long
as
sinne
raignes
.
What
is
the
reason
of
these
fearefull
outcryes
,
and
desperate
conclusions
of
Christians
,
concerning
their
spiritual
estate
?
Whence
is
it
that
they
taking
Satans
part
in
accusing
and
condemning
themselves
,
do
utter
such
dolefull
exclamations
as
these
;
when
conscience
is
throughly
awakened
.
Alas
,
I
have
most
wretchedly
spent
the
prime
and
strength
of
mine
age
in
vanity
and
pleasure
,
in
lewdnesse
and
lust
:
The
best
of
my
time
hath
been
wofully
wasted
in
obeying
Sathan
and
serving
my selfe
,
and
therefore
though
I
be
weary
of
my
former
wayes
and
looke
backe
upon
them
with
a
trembling
heart
,
and
grieved
spirit
,
yet
I
am
affraid
God
will
never
vouchsafe
to
cast
his
eye
of
compassion
upon
my
soule
.
Though
I
have
beene
a
professour
long
,
yet
many
times
my
heart
is
full
of
doubting
when
I
call
to
minde
the
hainousnesse
of
my
unregenerate
life
,
and
see
since
I
was
enlightened
and
should
have
behaved
my selfe
in
forwardnesse
and
fruitfulnesse
for
God
answerable
to
my
former
folly
and
licentiousnesse
in
evill
,
so
many
slips
and
imperfections
every
day
,
and
such
weake
distracted
discharging
of
duties
commanded
both
towards
God
and
man
,
that
my
very
spirits
sink
within
me
.
Many
times
when
I
reach
out
the
hand
of
my
faith
to
fetch
some
speciall
promise
into
my
soule
,
for
refreshing
and
comfort
,
comparing
advisedly
my
owne
vilenesse
and
nothingnesse
,
with
the
riches
of
mercy
and
grace
shining
therein
,
I
am
overwhelmed
with
admiration
,
and
thinke
with
my selfe
,
how
is
it
possible
that
this
should
bee
?
Can
such
glorious
things
belong
to
such
a
wretch
and
worme
as
I
am
?
I
cannot
deny
but
there
is
mercy
enough
in
God
,
but
for
me
,
such
a
notorious
wicked
liver
as
I
am
,
mercy
for
me
,
surely
it
cannot
be
.
Alas
;
I
have
beene
no
ordinary
sinner
,
my
corruptions
have
carryed
me
beyond
the
villanies
of
the
vilest
creature
you
can
name
,
the
enormity
of
my
wayes
have
set
an
infamous
brand
upon
mee
in
the
sight
of
the
world
,
besides
those
secret
pollutions
and
sinfull
practises
which
no
eye
ever
beheld
save
God
alone
.
Had
I
not
beene
extreamely
outragious
,
and
gone
on
thus
with
a
high
hand
,
I
might
have
had
some
hope
,
but
now
all
expectation
failes
me
;
I
despaire
of
salvation
,
&c.
Oh
the
feares
and
perplexities
which
pursue
the
soule
when
sinne
is
once
committed
,
conscience
unpacified
will
rave
,
and
dragge
a
sinner
before
Gods
tribunall
.
The
sting
of
an
accusing
conscience
is
like
an
Harlot
,
Yee
shall
live
.
After
that
God
hath
called
,
iustified
,
and
sanctified
a
poore
sinner
,
hee
glorifieth
him
at
last
with
himselfe
in
eternall
blisse
.
Death
is
but
a
sleepe
to
such
as
are
in
Christ
,
wherein
the
body
is
separated
from
the
soule
,
rotting
in
the
earth
a
while
,
that
it
may
bee
the
more
capable
of
glory
hereafter
;
but
the
soule
is
immediately
transported
into
heaven
,
and
there
remaineth
unto
the
last
judgement
,
praising
God
,
and
expecting
the
consummation
of
the
Kingdome
of
glory
.
Before
the
comming
of
Christ
,
the
powers
of
heaven
shall
be
shaken
;
Sunne
and
Mooone
shall
suspend
their
light
,
the
starres
shall
seeme
to
fall
from
heaven
,
the
Elect
shall
rejoyce
,
the
reprobate
shall
tremble
;
the
whole
universe
shall
bee
consumed
with
fire
,
and
depart
with
a
noise
of
the
chariot
wheeles
,
the
earth
and
elements
,
with
the
workes
thereof
,
shall
be
consumed
in
a
moment
,
and
brought
to
nothing
.
At
the
same
time
shall
the
trumpet
be
heard
,
sounded
by
an
archangell
,
&
Christ
shall
come
in
the
clouds
with
great
power
&
glory
,
with
a
troop
of
angels
.
Then
the
Elect
which
were
dead
,
at
the
hearing
of
the
trumpet
,
shall
rise
with
their
bodies
,
and
the
rest
alive
shall
be
changed
in
a
moment
,
and
all
of
them
shall
bee
made
like
the
glorious
body
of
Christ
.
After
which
,
they
being
gathered
before
the
throne
of
God
,
shall
bee
separated
from
the
reprobate
,
and
caryed
in
the
aire
,
&
set
upon
the
right
hand
of
God
,
where
they
shall
heare
this
sentence
;
Come
ye
blessed
,
&c.
After
which
they
shall
enjoy
everlasting
happinesse
:
the
parts
whereof
is
eternall
life
and
perfect
glory
.
This
eternall
life
is
that
fellowship
with
God
,
whereby
God
of
himself
is
life
unto
the
Elect.
They
shall
not
need
meat
,
drinke
,
sleepe
,
aire
,
heate
,
cold
,
breath
,
physick
,
apparell
,
the
light
of
the
sun
,
or
moone
;
for
the
spirit
of
God
shall
bee
instead
of
all
these
,
from
whom
immediately
they
shall
bee
quickened
for
ever
.
Their
glory
consisteth
in
this
that
they
shall
continually
behold
the
face
of
God
.
2.
They
shall
be
like
unto
Christ
,
just
,
holy
incorruptible
,
glorious
,
honourable
,
beautifull
,
strong
,
nimble
.
3.
They
shall
possesse
the
new
heavens
,
and
the
new
earth
,
they
shall
joyfully
praise
and
laud
the
name
of
the
Lord
world
without
end
.
FINIS
.