HELPS
TO
HVMILIATION
.
Acts
2.
37.
Now
when
they
heard
this
,
they
were
pricked
in
their
heart
,
and
said
vnto
Peter
,
&c.
IN
these
words
here
is
:
First
,
a
compunction
and
a
thorow
wounding
their
hearts
.
Secondly
,
a
consultation
what
to
doe
.
Thirdly
,
Peters
holy
counsell
;
Amend
your
liues
,
and
be
baptized
.
From
the
first
,
in
that
these
men
when
they
had
heard
of
the
greatnesse
of
their
sin
,
were
thus
wounded
at
the
heart
,
obserue
:
That
contrition
in
a
new
creature
ordinarily
is
answerable
Manasse
,
2
Chron.
33.
6.
Mary
Magdalen
,
Luke
7.
Augustine
a
great
sinner
,
wrote
12.
bookes
of
Repentance
.
To
whom
much
is
forgiuen
,
Christians
after
their
conuersion
desire
to
see
their
sinnes
to
the
vtmost
,
If
it
be
not
so
(
as
it
may
be
otherwise
,
for
God
is
a
free
agent
and
is
not
tyed
to
any
proportion
of
sorrow
)
then
such
troubles
as
these
vsually
seaze
on
them
.
First
,
they
are
often
afflicted
with
this
,
that
their
conuersion
is
not
through
and
sound
,
and
so
do
not
with
such
heartinesse
and
chearefulnesse
performe
the
duty
of
Godlynesse
.
Secondly
,
they
are
many
times
haunted
with
listlessnesse
and
coldnesse
in
their
progresse
of
Christianity
.
Thirdly
,
they
are
visited
with
some
crosse
or
other
that
sticks
by
them
:
to
make
them
lay
a
greater
Load
vpon
sin
.
Fourthly
,
they
are
more
subiect
to
bee
ouertaken
with
their
sweete
sinne
,
because
because
they
haue
no
more
sorrowed
for
it
.
For
the
lesse
it
is
sorrowed
for
,
the
more
it
insnares
men
.
Fiftly
,
some
of
them
haue
beene
assaulted
vpon
their
bed
of
death
with
sorrowfull
and
strong
temptations
:
Not
that
men
should
conceiue
this
is
alwayes
the
reason
of
it
;
for
God
hath
ends
in
all
his
workes
,
knowne
onely
to
himselfe
;
but
this
I
haue
knowne
,
some
haue
beene
troubled
,
and
this
may
bee
in
great
mercy
to
make
a
weake
conuersion
more
strong
.
Least
any
Christian
should
bee
troubled
at
it
,
take
notice
in
Contrition
:
There
must
bee
sorrow
of
heart
because
of
sinne
.
There
must
bee
a
dislike
of
it
in
the
will
.
There
must
bee
a
transmutation
or
strong
reasoning
in
the
mind
out
of
the
word
of
God
against
sin
.
This
is
the
Sinew
of
Repentance
as
Austin
had
against
Playes
,
that
all
men
could
not
draw
him
to
it
.
There
must
bee
a
resolution
and
striuing
and
watching
against
it
,
as
Iob
with
his
eye
.
Iob.
31.
1.
There
must
bee
a
greiuing
that
hee
is
not
excellent
in
all
these
,
and
herein
make
vp
what
thou
wantest
in
the
former
.
These
bee
in
some
measure
in
all
Christians
;
some
are
more
eminent
in
one
part
,
some
in
another
,
as
Ioseph
had
little
sorrow
,
but
a
strong
Resolution
,
because
hee
had
so
strong
a
temptation
,
and
withstood
it
;
hee
had
strong
reasons
beyond
nature
to
resist
sin
,
and
resolue
against
it
,
so
that
it
is
not
so
much
the
measure
,
as
the
truth
of
euery
part
that
is
required
.
But
if
they
bee
not
in
an
excellency
in
great
sinners
,
they
are
to
mourne
for
the
want
of
them
.
To
help
herein
,
obserue
these
tenne
degrees
or
Acts
of
repentance
or
rather
helps
to
humilation
.
Get
sight
,
and
suruey
,
Get
a
right
apprehension
of
Gods
wrath
and
fiery
indignation
,
and
the
pure
eye
of
God
against
sinne
.
Get
a
sense
of
the
vnspeakable
misery
thou
art
lyable
to
by
reason
of
sinne
.
Get
a
base
esteeme
of
thy selfe
.
Get
an
inward
sorrow
of
heart
and
bleeding
of
soule
.
Get
an
outward
bewailing
with
hart-peircing
confession
.
Get
an
hatred
and
auersion
in
thy
will
from
sinne
.
Get
a
strong
reasoning
in
thy
minde
against
sinne
.
Get
a
sincere
opposition
in
thy
life
,
of
sinne
.
Get
a
sincere
greiuing
that
thou
canst
do
these
things
no
better
.
Now
for
the
first
act
(
viz.
)
Get
a
sight
&
suruey
,
and
full
apprehension
of
all
thy
vilenes
,
iniquities
,
transgressions
and
sinnes
,
the
number
and
nature
of
them
;
for
which
purpose
take
these
three
helps
.
First
,
keepe
the
eye
of
thy
naturall
conscience
cleare
.
Secondly
,
bee
acquainted
with
all
the
wayes
thou
canst
possible
to
anatomize
thy
sinne
.
Thirdly
,
take
notice
of
the
guilt
of
originall
sinne
,
because
a
Christian
may
haue
his
heart
locked
vp
more
at
one
time
then
at
an
other
.
For
the
first
of
which
(
viz
)
the
keeping
of
the
eye
of
the
naturall
conscience
cleare
,
obserue
:
First
the
Rules
of
the
heathen
that
neuer
did
know
Christ
.
Secondly
the
indowments
of
the
Heathen
.
Thirdly
the
common
notions
of
nature
which
were
in
the
Heathen
.
For
the
first
(
viz
)
The
rules
of
the
Heathen
that
neuer
did
knowe
Christ
,
as
instance
in
:
Lying
besides
the
word
of
God
which
banisheth
it
Ribald
talking
,
of
which
many
make
a
sport
,
and
rather
then
they
will
lose
a
Iest
,
they
will
venter
to
damne
their
soules
.
Epictetus
saith
,
It
s
dangerous
to
digresse
into
obscenity
of
speech
.
Cowardize
in
good
causes
,
thinking
it
good
sleeping
in
a
whole
skin
,
Aristotle
Ethic.
3.
cap
1.
that
in
some
cases
a
man
had
better
lose
his
life
then
bee
cowardly
.
Drunkennesse
;
the
daies
bee
so
drowned
in
impiety
,
that
if
a
man
bee
drunk
euery
day
,
yet
he
will
take
it
in
a
great
disgrace
if
he
be
not
counted
an
honest
man
;
whereas
Seneca
saith
it
is
but
a
raging
madnesse
,
and
if
hee
should
behaue
himselfe
so
but
two
or
three
dayes
as
hee
doth
then
,
men
would
count
him
mad
.
Mourning
immoderatly
for
losse
of
wife
or
children
,
Passions
of
anger
,
morall
Philosophers
haue
many
excellent
rules
,
the
which
if
a
naturall
man
would
take
notice
of
,
hee
would
neuer
bee
so
passionate
:
for
they
say
it
ariseth
first
,
From
a
great
weaknesse
of
spirit
.
For
were
he
manly
,
hee
would
passe
by
those
thinges
with
scorne
:
whereas
hee
shews
himselfe
to
bee
of
an
effeminate
spirit
and
impotent
affections
.
From
selfeloue
.
From
an
ouer
delicacy
and
too
much
nicenesse
in
suffering
wrong
.
From
a
passing
proud
nature
,
being
affraid
to
bee
contemned
.
From
too
much
credulity
,
so
that
if
one
or
two
do
whisper
hee
thinkes
they
speake
somthing
hurtfull
of
him
,
and
is
ready
to
breake
out
into
rage
:
for
which
passions
they
giue
these
rules
.
That
thou
containe
thy
body
and
tongue
in
quiet
.
That
thou
say
ouer
the
greeke
Alphabet
before
thou
say
any
thing
in
rage
.
That
thou
looke
thy selfe
in
a
glasse
,
and
thou
shalt
see
what
an
vgly
creature
thou
art
in
that
rage
;
for
saith
Homer
,
his
eyes
sparcle
like
fire
,
his
hart
swels
,
his
pulse
beates
.
&c.
so
that
if
in
this
moode
he
should
see
himselfe
in
a
glasse
,
he
would
neuer
againe
be
angry
.
Secondly
,
obseruing
the
endowments
of
the
Heathen
.
For
instance
,
Regulus
the
Romane
,
being
taken
prisoner
of
his
enemies
the
Carthaginians
,
&
vpon
promise
of
returne
if
he
sped
not
,
obtaining
to
go
home
to
Rome
to
treate
with
the
Senate
for
a
commutation
of
Captiues
,
Carthaginians
for
Romanes
,
of
whom
himselfe
was
one
:
Comming
to
the
Senate
,
he
gaue
weighty
reasons
to
dissawde
them
from
commucation
;
so
as
chusing
rather
to
abide
the
certaine
cruelty
of
his
Enemies
,
then
to
breake
his
faith
and
promise
;
he
returned
,
where
he
was
most
cruelly
vsed
of
them
;
by
whose
example
Christians
might
bee
ashamed
that
make
no
matter
of
breaking
their
promises
.
Fabricius
attained
to
that
height
of
excellency
,
that
it
was
said
,
A
man
may
as
soone
pull
the
Sunne
from
its
Spheare
,
as
that
man
from
his
honest
and
iust
dealing
.
Cato
was
so
excellent
,
that
it
is
said
,
hee
did
not
good
for
feare
,
shame
,
profit
,
&c.
but
because
goodnes
was
so
incorporated
into
him
,
that
hee
would
not
do
otherwise
.
Cambyses
stood
so
stricktly
against
bribery
,
that
a
Iudge
being
taken
in
that
crime
,
he
flayed
him
,
and
set
his
skinne
in
the
seat
of
Iustice
,
and
let
his
son
leane
thereon
that
hee
might
hate
that
vice
.
Zaleucus
King
of
the
Locrians
,
made
a
law
for
adultry
,
that
whosoeuer
was
taken
in
that
fact
should
haue
his
eyes
pulled
out
;
now
his
owne
sonne
being
taken
in
that
fault
first
,
because
hee
would
not
violate
his
owne
decree
,
pulled
out
one
of
his
sonnes
eyes
,
and
one
of
his
owne
.
Thirdly
,
obseruing
the
common
notions
of
nature
which
were
in
the
Heathen
.
All
good
is
to
bee
done
.
All
evill
is
to
be
avoyded
.
Kinde
is
to
be
propagated
.
Doe
as
wee
would
be
done
by
.
God
is
to
be
honored
,
from
whence
ariseth
this
obiection
,
namely
:
Not
vtterly
,
A
mans
life
is
to
bee
preserued
:
Now
selfe
preseruation
is
so
ingrafted
into
the
blood
and
veines
;
that
therefore
the
selfe-murderer
sinnes
:
Against
God
the
Father
.
Against
God
the
Son
.
Against
God
the
holy
Ghost
.
Against
the
light
of
nature
.
For
the
first
,
(
viz.
)
thou
sinnest
against
God
the
Father
,
who
commandeth
,
Thou
shalt
not
kill
,
and
so
thou
sinnest
:
Against
the
image
of
God
,
in
that
thou
destroyest
it
.
Against
his
Soueraignty
;
for
,
Hee
hath
appointed
thee
to
worke
in
his
vineyard
,
and
thou
wilt
rather
dye
,
&c.
as
if
he
were
a
hard
Master
,
that
thou
darest
stay
no
longer
in
his
seruice
.
Thou
dishonourest
him
,
and
gratifiest
his
enemy
.
Hee
hath
planted
thee
as
a
tenant
at
will
in
this
earthly
tabernacle
,
and
thou
beatest
it
about
thy
eares
.
Thou
sinnest
against
God
the
Sonne
;
for
,
Thou
art
none
of
thine
owne
,
thou
art
bought
with
a
price
:
this
will
helpe
thee
against
the
diuels
temptations
,
for
when
hee
comes
to
tempt
thee
to
that
sinne
,
say
,
thou
art
an
others
and
not
thine
owne
.
Thou
maymest
Christs
body
in
taking
away
a
member
of
it
.
Thou
sinnest
against
God
the
holy
Ghost
;
for
,
Thou
pollutest
thy
soule
with
blood
;
and
,
It
is
the
office
of
the
Spirit
to
dwel
with
us
:
and
It
is
the
office
of
the
Spirit
to
inuite
vs
to
taste
of
the
good
blessings
of
God
,
as
Esay
51.
Oh!
but
my
soule
is
blacke
with
sinne
,
&c.
This
is
the
action
of
the
Spirit
to
reueale
this
vnto
thee
.
Thou
sinnest
against
the
light
of
nature
most
cowardly
,
and
against
fortitude
;
thou
sinnest
against
the
Kingdome
;
against
thy
neighbour
,
thy
family
,
and
thy selfe
;
and
puttest
thy selfe
among
the
sorrowes
of
the
diuels
,
which
is
a
Bedlam
madnesse
.
Be
acquainted
with
all
the
wayes
thou
canst
possibly
,
Bee
perfect
in
the
Law
of
God
,
&
looke
thy selfe
in
the
pure
Christall
glasse
thereof
:
Be
throughly
catechised
in
the
Commandements
,
,
as
in
the
fourth
Commandement
;
wherein
consider
,
Preparation
.
Celebration
.
Preparation
,
which
consists
,
In
praying
:
Publiquely
with
thy
Familly
;
Priuately
with
thy selfe
.
In
examination
.
In
renewing
thy
repentance
.
In
couenanting
with
thy
thoughts
to
spend
that
whole
day
in
holy
things
.
Celebration
.
It
may
bee
for
scandalous
sinnes
in
thy
life
thou
hast
beene
sorowful
,
but
thou
hast
passed
it
with
many
wandrings
;
for
which
thou
hast
not
beene
humbled
:
All
these
are
to
bee
brought
to
thy
minde
with
much
bleeding
.
An
vtter
Cessation
or
abstinence
,
from
thoughts
,
words
,
and
deeds
;
of
calling
,
recreation
;
more
then
for
necessity
,
mercy
,
comlinesse
.
Take
suruey
of
all
the
wrong
which
we
haue
offered
to
all
things
in
Heauen
and
Earth
;
all
things
are
the
worse
for
a
wicked
man
,
so
far
as
his
sinne
can
add
hurt
vnto
them
.
Take
a
perusal
of
thy selfe
from
top
to
toe
.
The
sinnes
of
thy
eies
:
each
thing
thou
lookest
on
,
not
making
a
holy
vse
of
them
,
is
a
sin
of
omission
:
consider
then
how
many
there
are
euery
day
,
and
,
if
in
one
part
so
many
,
what
are
there
in
the
whole
body
?
Consider
all
the
commissions
,
and
omissions
as
thou
standest
in
seuerall
relations
.
As
a
Creature
,
how
thou
hast
caried
thy selfe
to
thy
Creator
.
As
an
husband
,
to
thy
wife
.
As
a
Father
,
to
thy
Children
.
As
a
Master
,
to
thy
Family
.
As
a
Neighbor
,
to
them
without
,
or
to
Gods
children
.
As
a
Subiect
,
&c.
Take
notice
of
all
thy
failings
in
al
these
,
and
thou
shalt
finde
sufficient
matter
for
a
day
of
humiliation
.
Labour
to
get
(
as
I
am
perswaded
euery
Christian
hath
)
two
Catalogues
of
thy
sins
,
before
conuersion
,
and
since
.
Of
Gods
mercies
,
spirituall
and
temporall
.
Take
notice
of
the
guilt
of
originall
sin
.
Now
because
a
Christian
may
haue
his
heart
locked
vp
more
at
one
time
than
at
another
,
let
them
in
case
of
barrennesse
,
consider
these
sixe
quickning
points
.
Looke
to
the
seede
and
sinke
,
Consider
&
throughly
weigh
the
circumstances
Saith
hee
,
this
theft
which
I
committed
was
not
onely
in
the
booke
of
God
forbidden
,
but
I
had
it
in
my
heart
daily
.
Volui
,
feci
I
resolued
with
free
will
to
doe
it
,
and
I
did
it
.
Fastidio
aequitatis
,
I
did
not
doe
it
for
want
,
but
in
disdaine
of
goodnesse
,
and
out
of
an
eager
desire
to
doe
wrong
.
I
had
aboundance
of
the
same
kinde
and
better
at
home
.
I
did
steale
them
,
not
so
much
to
inioy
the
thing
,
as
mine
owne
theft
,
that
it
might
bee
said
of
my
old
companions
,
that
I
robd
an
Orchard
.
There
was
a
num
of
desperate
swaggerers
and
incarnate
Diuels
with
me
.
Nocte
intempestiua
,
at
midnight
:
which
he
aggrauateth
with
another
Circumstance
when
wee
had
beene
sporting
and
dancing
we
did
it
.
We
carried
all
away
.
We
carried
so
many
away
,
that
they
were
a
burden
to
vs
.
When
wee
came
home
wee
gaue
them
to
the
swine
:
and
then
at
the
conclusion
,
hee
cryes
,
Oh
my
God
,
behold
my
heart
,
Ecce
cor
meum
Deus
.
If
we
would
looke
backe
on
such
a
Sabbath
breaking
,
how
in
such
a
place
,
at
such
a
time
,
so
inflamed
with
lust
;
If
drunkards
,
whoremongers
,
vsurers
,
&c.
would
take
this
course
,
they
might
finde
such
aggrauations
,
that
by
the
mercy
of
God
,
might
terrifie
them
from
their
euill
courses
.
In
case
of
barrennesse
consider
,
Cut
off
all
sinne
both
originall
and
actuall
that
thou
hast
taken
notice
of
,
Remoue
all
personall
sins
,
For
the
first
,
by
incouraging
them
,
as
those
Prophets
which
cryed
Peace
,
peace
,
when
there
is
no
peace
,
when
they
are
but
formall
or
ciuill
professors
,
those
that
sow
pillowes
vnder
mens
elbowes
,
that
heale
the
wounds
of
the
people
with
faire
words
,
when
there
is
nothing
towards
,
By
prouoking
;
Curse
God
and
dye
:
so
,
Fathers
prouoke
not
your
Children
to
wrath
,
By
familiarity
with
sinners
,
with
company
keeping
.
If
thou
vouchsafest
thy
company
to
Alehouse
haunters
,
to
prophane
persons
,
to
Idolaters
,
to
Gods
enemies
;
looke
for
that
sharpe
checke
which
the
Prophet
gaue
to
Iehosaphat
for
associating
himselfe
with
wicked
Ahab
,
Shouldest
thou
countenance
the
vngodly
,
and
loue
them
that
hate
the
Lord
?
Therefore
is
wrath
vpon
thee
from
before
the
Lord
.
Or
as
Psal.
50.
18.
When
thou
sawest
a
theese
,
thou
consentedst
with
him
,
and
hast
beene
partakers
with
adulteres
.
Therefore
as
Moyses
said
to
the
people
,
Separate
your selues
from
the
Tents
of
Corah
,
least
ye
perish
with
them
.
And
,
Come
out
of
Babylon
,
my
people
,
haue
no
communion
with
that
Whore
,
least
yee
perish
in
her
sinnes
,
and
be
destroyed
with
her
plagues
,
Reu.
18.
Dauid
saith
,
I
haue
not
dwelt
with
vaine
persons
,
nor
will
I
haue
fellowship
with
the
vngodly
Odi
Ecclesiam
malignantium
.
And
who
would
vouchsafe
to
let
their
loue
runne
on
such
in
this
life
,
that
must
bee
separated
in
the
world
to
come
?
But
for
workes
of
thy
particular
calling
,
as
buying
,
selling
,
salutations
,
&c.
wee
must
haue
these
,
or
we
must
out
of
this
world
,
as
1
Cor.
5.
10.
11.
By
participation
,
Thy
Princes
are
rebellious
,
and
companions
of
theeues
:
so
Magistrates
which
execute
not
their
office
,
are
guilty
of
all
the
sins
which
the
people
commit
within
the
compasse
of
the
time
of
their
gouernment
,
and
they
are
all
set
on
their
score
,
without
repentance
.
By
silence
,
when
thou
hearest
a
good
man
traduced
,
and
sayest
nothing
;
especially
dumbe
dogges
;
euery
Sabbath
is
a
bloody
day
to
them
,
for
their
silence
is
cause
of
all
the
iniquity
done
that
day
,
&
all
these
things
which
they
do
amisse
,
whether
by
swearing
,
Ale-house
haunting
,
&c.
all
are
set
on
his
score
:
so
all
those
that
are
faint
and
cowardly
for
Gods
glory
and
truth
.
By
defending
,
Woe
to
them
that
call
darknesse
light
,
and
light
darknesse
;
Therefore
if
any
by
quicknesse
of
wit
will
labour
to
maintaine
vsury
,
bribery
,
&c.
they
are
guilty
of
those
sins
.
By
counselling
,
as
Iesabell
counselled
her
husband
to
kill
Naboth
.
Or
as
those
say
,
Come
,
By
commanding
,
By
commending
,
It
is
the
voyce
of
a
God
;
they
were
guilty
of
his
sinne
in
taking
honour
from
God
.
By
conniuency
,
as
Ely
winked
at
his
sons
;
for
which
you
may
see
what
a
fearefull
iudgement
fell
vpon
that
house
for
forbearing
them
.
If
we
had
no
other
sins
in
a
day
of
humiliation
,
it
were
able
to
breake
the
hardest
heart
;
but
especially
for
maisters
of
Families
,
who
winke
at
their
parents
and
seruants
swearing
,
sabbath
breaking
,
&c.
If
these
bee
not
guilty
of
the
former
sinnes
,
yet
they
are
guilty
in
not
praying
with
them
and
bringing
them
to
extraordinary
exercises
.
By
consenting
;
By
not
sorrowing
for
them
:
By
not
praying
against
them
,
for
the
suppressing
of
them
.
Consider
the
sinnes
of
the
times
:
blessed
are
they
that
mourne
,
so
Math.
5.
4.
obserue
these
seuerall
branches
wel
,
and
thou
shalt
finde
sinnes
enow
to
mourne
for
.
Now
for
the
2.
Act.
The
seuerity
of
Gods
Iudgement
against
sin
;
He
threw
downe
the
Angels
from
Heauen
to
be
Diuels
for
euer
(
which
might
haue
done
him
abundance
of
glory
)
and
that
,
as
some
thinke
but
for
a
thought
.
For
but
eating
an
apple
,
which
some
count
a
small
fault
,
hee
cast
Adam
out
of
Paradice
,
and
sent
a
world
of
misery
vpon
him
&
his
posterity
.
Hee
drown'd
the
world
;
which
shewes
the
infinite
purity
in
God
not
to
abide
sinne
.
Hee
burnt
Sodom
for
those
very
sinnes
now
reigning
amongst
vs
.
Hee
reiected
the
Iewes
which
were
his
most
deare
people
:
for
they
so
prouoked
God
,
that
they
are
now
no
nation
,
and
his
wrath
hath
so
fiercely
seized
on
them
,
that
they
are
most
cursed
vagabonds
,
and
so
haue
beene
a
thousand
sixe
hundred
yeares
.
Consider
,
hee
hath
created
horror
of
conscience
which
is
a
hell
vpon
earth
for
the
punishment
of
sinne
;
but
aboue
all
,
the
torments
of
hell
,
that
woefull
place
and
state
prepared
for
the
wicked
,
where
the
greater
part
of
the
world
shall
bee
howling
for
euer
.
Consider
how
hard
a
thing
it
is
to
get
pardon
for
sinne
,
My
God
,
my
God
,
why
hast
thou
forsaken
mee
?
Though
he
loued
him
infinitely
as
himselfe
,
yet
he
would
haue
his
Iustice
satisfied
.
The
vnresistable
comming
of
God
against
sinners
,
Gods
holinesse
,
which
opposeth
sinne
,
Get
a
sense
of
the
vnspeakable
misery
thou
art
liable
vnto
by
reason
of
sinne
;
Looke
backe
vpon
all
thy
sinnes
past
that
euer
thou
committedst
,
all
thou
hast
beene
guilty
of
euer
since
thou
wast
borne
,
originall
,
or
actuall
,
known
,
or
vnknown
,
of
thought
,
word
and
deede
;
They
are
written
with
a
penne
of
iron
,
and
with
the
point
of
a
diamond
,
not
to
bee
raced
out
:
they
are
all
vpon
Record
,
and
now
lye
as
so
many
sleeping
Lyons
,
gathering
strength
and
vigor
against
such
time
as
the
Lord
shall
awake
the
conscience
;
and
then
they
will
appeare
and
rent
thy
soule
in
pieces
.
I
say
,
let
naturall
men
consider
of
this
point
,
and
they
shall
see
themselues
miserable
;
for
there
are
some
for
small
sinne
put
to
such
frights
,
as
they
could
not
bee
comforted
in
a
long
space
;
as
some
who
hauing
an
adulterous
proiect
,
without
any
actuall
pollution
;
and
others
who
hauing
found
a
trifle
,
and
made
no
conscience
to
restore
it
by
light
of
naturall
conscience
,
knowing
they
did
not
as
they
would
be
done
by
,
was
put
into
vnspeakable
horror
;
and
some
who
hauing
an
vnworthy
thought
of
God
,
these
were
put
into
such
amazement
,
that
they
wisht
they
had
neuer
beene
.
If
these
for
such
small
things
(
in
mens
account
)
haue
come
to
such
a
passe
,
that
they
tooke
no
delight
in
any
earthly
thing
,
but
are
put
to
their
wits
end
,
ready
to
make
away
themselues
,
wishing
themselues
annihilated
;
then
what
tearing
of
haire
,
what
horror
of
conscience
will
seize
vpon
thee
on
thy
bed
of
death
;
with
what
a
gashly
countenance
wilt
thou
looke
vpon
that
blacke
and
hellish
Catalogue
of
all
thy
sinnes
?
as
lies
,
oathes
,
railings
,
scoffings
at
Gods
people
,
rotten
speeches
,
bedlam
passions
,
goods
ill
gotten
,
time
ill
spent
,
prophanation
of
Sabbaths
,
and
killing
Christ
at
euery
.
Sacrament
,
as
all
naturall
men
doe
:
These
shall
be
summoned
before
thee
;
and
charged
vpon
thy
conscience
by
the
iust
God
;
then
consider
in
proportion
what
horror
will
bee
in
thine
heart
;
no
heart
can
conceiue
it
,
nor
tongue
of
men
and
Angels
vtter
it
.
Now
then
attend
,
and
let
none
blesse
themselues
and
say
,
I
neuer
felt
this
misery
,
therefore
it
shall
neuer
hurt
mee
;
I
tell
thee
;
it
is
the
perfection
of
thy
misery
,
that
thou
art
insensible
of
it
:
to
be
soule-sicke
and
feele
it
not
,
is
the
complement
of
misery
;
and
the
reasons
why
thou
canst
not
see
it
,
are
these
seuen
.
The
diuell
,
Thy
conscience
is
lull'd
asleepe
with
carnall
pleasure
,
A
bucket
of
water
is
heauy
on
earth
,
The
conscience
of
a
naturall
man
is
like
a
A
naturall
man
is
spiritually
dead
,
He
lookes
on
sinne
through
false
glasses
,
For
want
of
consideration
;
Thou
hast
had
thy
hand
in
murthering
many
a
soule
;
all
thy
drunken
companions
,
thy
brethren
in
iniquity
,
many
peraduenture
with
whom
thou
hast
conuersed
are
dead
,
and
in
hell
long
agoe
;
thou
art
guilty
of
the
damnation
of
their
soules
.
Cain
was
a
cursed
man
,
and
had
a
brand
vpon
him
for
killing
but
a
man
;
then
how
will
the
murthering
of
so
many
soules
affright
thee
,
if
thou
hast
beene
a
meanes
to
set
them
to
hell
?
as
1.
For
thy
wife
;
thou
shouldst
haue
liued
with
her
as
a
man
of
knowledge
.
For
thy
Children
;
thou
shouldst
haue
catechized
them
,
and
brought
them
vp
in
religion
.
For
thy
seruants
;
it
may
bee
thy
example
hath
made
them
swear
,
lye
,
&c.
How
will
this
soule
curse
thee
in
the
pitt
of
hell
,
and
curse
that
time
,
that
euer
they
first
saw
thee
?
but
no
carnall
man
will
beleeue
this
till
they
feele
it
.
Thou
hast
beene
the
slaue
of
Sathan
,
worse
then
a
Turkish
Gally-slaue
all
thy
life
;
for
when
thou
mightest
haue
bene
Gods
Freeman
,
&
wouldest
not
,
the
diuill
hath
bid
thee
lye
,
sweare
,
breake
Gods
sabbaths
,
&c.
and
thou
hast
obeyed
him
,
and
beene
the
diuels
drudge
.
The
Turkish
fetters
are
but
cold
yron
at
the
worst
,
but
thine
bee
inuisible
chaines
of
eternall
damnation
:
He
scourgeth
thy
naked
soule
with
inuisible
scorpions
,
feeds
thee
euery
day
with
fire
&
brimstone
;
When
thou
art
out
of
the
Turkish
slauery
,
thou
mayest
bee
a
man
againe
:
but
here
Sathan
scourgeth
thee
and
thou
seest
it
not
;
hee
feedeth
thee
with
poyson
,
and
thou
tastest
it
not
:
And
shortly
hee
will
locke
thee
vp
in
perpetuall
torments
,
where
thou
shalt
neuer
bee
freede
from
diuels
.
First
,
Thou
dishonorest
God
in
a
high
degree
,
thou
prouokest
the
glory
of
his
pure
eye
euery
day
by
euery
sinne
thou
committest
.
Thou
tramplest
vnder
foote
the
blood
of
Christ
in
euery
Sacrament
,
if
thou
beest
not
a
conuert
.
The
Spirit
puts
good
motions
into
thy
heart
;
as
at
this
time
it
may
be
,
thou
resoluest
by
the
mercy
of
God
to
leaue
all
thy
former
waies
,
and
bee
Gods
seruant
:
but
presently
thou
triflest
it
away
by
worldly
talke
,
and
thy
old
companions
.
The
Angells
offer
to
guarde
thee
,
but
thou
refusest
their
attendance
,
and
denyest
to
be
vnder
their
protection
,
while
thou
wandrest
out
of
thy
wayes
.
To
Gods
children
thou
art
as
a
goade
in
their
sides
.
Thou
drawest
wife
and
children
,
neighbors
and
all
thou
canst
to
hell
,
by
thy
ill
example
,
&c:
The
creatures
thou
art
mercilesse
vnto
,
for
thy
sinne
adds
to
their
misery
which
they
groane
vnder
;
and
thou
yet
addest
to
their
burden
by
thy
siune
.
Thou
art
liable
to
all
the
ill
that
a
man
vnconuerted
may
indure
,
or
to
any
sinne
that
a
man
destitute
of
diuine
grace
may
commit
:
as
,
To
spirituall
hardnesse
of
heart
,
blindnesse
of
minde
,
slauery
vnder
thy
lusts
,
searednesse
of
conscience
,
or
committing
the
sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
.
To
temporall
;
any
thing
that
may
befall
any
man
,
as
to
be
possessed
of
the
diuell
,
&c.
I
wish
euery
naturall
man
seriously
to
consider
this
;
for
thou
dying
in
thy
naturall
estate
,
art
certainly
damned
,
and
for
any
thing
thou
knowest
thou
mayest
dye
the
next
moment
,
and
then
all
things
are
thine
enemies
;
death
,
which
is
certaine
:
but
how
,
when
,
or
where
,
thou
knowest
not
.
Caluin
saith
,
A
man
may
dye
a
thousand
wayes
in
one
houre
.
Some
Physitians
say
,
there
are
three
hundred
diseases
in
the
body
,
all
mortall
:
Besides
,
new
sinnes
haue
begotten
new
diseases
,
and
thou
mayest
dye
suddenly
by
an
impostume
:
thy
house
may
be
fiered
&
thou
consumed
by
it
;
thy
horse
may
stumble
,
and
so
destroy
thee
;
a
tile
may
fall
as
thou
art
walking
,
and
so
kill
thee
;
an
Adder
vnder
the
grasse
or
hearbes
may
sting
thee
.
Canst
thou
promise
thy selfe
to
see
the
Sun
againe
when
it
s
once
sett
,
though
now
thou
bee
in
perfect
strength
?
But
howeuer
,
nature
will
end
at
length
,
Sathan
then
is
ready
to
come
with
his
vtmost
malice
,
when
thou
art
faint
and
loath
to
depart
;
then
he
will
lay
open
all
thy
sinnes
,
and
then
the
very
next
step
is
,
The
Iudgement
seat
of
Gods
tribunall
,
where
God
will
declare
what
mercy
hee
offered
thee
,
and
the
Diuill
will
pleade
to
haue
thee
.
Then
comes
the
eternall
separation
from
God
and
possession
of
those
torments
which
are
easelesse
,
endlesse
and
remedilesse
.
Oh
the
tearing
of
the
heart
,
and
the
gnashing
of
the
teeth
,
that
this
will
produce
,
especially
when
you
consider
God
euery
Sabbath
stretched
out
his
armes
to
imbrace
you
,
and
you
would
not
;
Christ
offered
to
make
a
plaster
of
his
hearts
blood
to
cure
you
,
but
you
trampled
it
vnder
your
feete
:
The
holy
Ghost
put
good
motions
into
your
heart
,
but
you
reiected
them
;
the
Minister
he
pressed
hard
to
haue
you
yeild
,
but
you
withstoode
him
.
Oh
the
hellish
cries
that
these
will
fetch
from
such
an
heart
.
Wherefore
let
this
betimes
beget
in
thee
a
base
esteeme
of
thy selfe
;
Thou
art
worse
then
a
Toad
;
nay
a
Toad
is
a
faire
amiable
creature
in
comparison
of
thee
.
For
a
Toad
following
the
instinct
of
nature
,
serues
the
Creator
in
its
kinde
,
it
suckes
vp
the
venom
of
the
earth
,
which
otherwise
would
poison
vs
:
but
thou
art
a
degenerate
creature
and
Traitor
,
who
drinkest
poyson
out
of
Gods
mercy
,
to
sin
more
against
him
.
Thou
art
a
sworne
friend
to
his
most
deadly
enemy
,
and
breakest
all
his
commandements
.
Secondly
,
the
venom
of
a
Toad
kills
but
the
body
:
the
poyson
of
thy
sinne
kils
both
body
and
soule
.
When
a
Toade
dyes
its
misery
is
ended
,
but
then
thy
woe
begins
;
then
thou
wilt
wish
thou
hadst
beene
any
thing
,
but
a
man
.
If
thou
hadst
looked
vpon
that
man
in
Mat.
8.
possessed
with
a
Diuill
,
who
dwelt
among
the
Tombes
,
went
naked
,
chaines
would
not
hold
him
,
the
diuell
was
so
powerfull
in
him
:
thou
wouldst
haue
thought
him
a
dreadfull
spectacle
of
most
extreame
misery
;
to
haue
a
legion
of
deuils
by
computation
6666.
but
I
tell
thee
thou
hadst
better
haue
a
thousand
Legions
,
then
one
vnrepented
sinne
;
for
The
deuill
hee
can
haue
power
but
ouer
the
body
,
and
foe
hee
may
ouer
a
Saint
,
and
had
ouer
Christ
to
carry
him
to
the
top
of
a
Pinnacle
:
but
neuer
sinne
,
like
thine
of
obstinate
&
finall
impenitency
,
was
found
in
a
sanctified
man
.
Sinne
made
the
diuell
so
vgly
as
he
is
,
being
else
of
an
Angelicall
nature
;
onely
sin
makes
him
odious
;
therefore
it
is
worse
than
a
thousand
diuels
,
yea
worse
,
than
either
the
tongue
of
men
and
Angels
can
expresse
.
All
the
diuels
in
hel
in
thy
body
,
cannot
doe
thee
one
pinnesworth
of
hurt
for
the
saluation
of
thy
soule
:
but
one
sinne
wilfully
vnrepented
,
and
so
vnpardoned
,
will
damne
it
;
so
that
it
were
better
to
bee
possessed
with
a
thousand
diuels
,
then
one
sinne
vnrepented
of
,
and
vnpardoned
.
Get
an
inward
wounding
of
thine
heart
and
bleeding
of
soule
;
First
,
thy
heart
that
hath
beene
the
fountaine
,
or
rather
sincke
from
whence
haue
issued
many
foule
streames
,
where
all
ill
hath
beene
forged
,
all
euill
words
,
rageing
passions
,
and
wicked
thoughts
;
Now
then
by
the
rule
of
proportion
,
let
thy
heart
bee
a
fountaine
of
sorrow
for
sinne
;
If
Christ
open
a
fountaine
of
mercy
for
mourners
,
let
not
vs
be
excluded
for
want
of
sorrow
.
Consider
the
heart
of
Christ
,
hee
had
no
heart
of
flesh
,
but
for
sinne
,
which
for
thy
sake
was
killed
with
that
singular
depth
of
sorrow
and
griefe
,
that
if
all
the
godly
sorrow
of
all
the
Christian
soules
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
to
the
end
thereof
,
in
heauen
or
in
earth
,
dead
or
aliue
,
were
collected
into
one
heart
,
they
could
not
counteruaile
the
depth
of
his
anguish
.
Shall
then
his
blessed
soule
fall
▪
asunder
in
his
blessed
brest
,
assaulted
with
all
the
wrath
of
God
,
and
the
second
death
?
Shall
his
soule
bee
like
a
scorched
heath
,
and
so
pressed
with
the
flames
of
Gods
reuenging
wrath
,
which
wrung
from
him
those
bloody
droops
and
ruefull
cryes
,
My
God
,
my
God
,
why
hast
thou
forsaken
me
?
The
wrath
of
God
so
fierce
on
him
,
that
(
I
say
)
dropps
of
blood
fell
from
him
:
and
shall
thy
heart
bee
as
stone
within
thy
brest
,
and
neuer
bee
moued
?
Oh
prodigious
hardnesse
,
and
worse
then
the
heathenish
ingratitude
.
If
thy
heart
be
not
wounded
in
some
measure
truely
,
it
shall
hereafter
be
filled
with
such
endlesse
horror
,
that
would
grieue
and
breake
10000
hearts
to
thinke
on
it
.
Is
it
not
better
then
to
mourne
a
little
here
for
sinne
than
to
haue
our
hearts
inlarged
to
indure
vnto
all
eternity
the
horror
of
hell
?
Is
any
man
so
senselesse
to
thinke
he
shall
goe
to
heauen
as
in
a
bed
of
downe
;
and
neuer
bee
touched
for
his
sinne
,
which
is
as
impossible
as
for
thee
,
to
reach
heauen
with
thy
hand
.
When
Hezekiah
a
man
perfect
in
all
his
wayes
,
Psal
32.
3.
Iob
complayned
,
The
arrowes
of
the
Almighty
are
within
me
,
the
venom
whereof
doth
drinke
vp
my
spirit
.
Nay
Christ
himselfe
cryed
out
in
the
Agony
of
the
Spirit
.
If
thou
get
this
broken
heart
into
thy
breast
,
thou
shalt
bring
downe
the
glorious
maiesty
of
heauen
,
God
Almighty
with
his
chayre
of
State
to
sit
in
thy
soule
;
for
he
hath
two
habitations
:
-
1.
In
heauen
.
-
2.
In
an
humble
heart
.
Get
this
,
and
get
all
.
Thou
gettest
true
title
and
interest
vnto
the
passion
of
Christ
,
and
all
the
comforts
in
the
booke
of
God
,
the
promises
both
of
this
life
,
and
of
that
to
come
.
Get
an
outward
bewayling
with
heart-piercing
confession
:
Consider
,
first
the
practise
of
the
Saints
of
God
.
They
powred
out
teares
as
men
water
out
of
Buckets
.
Mary
washed
Christs
feete
with
her
teares
.
The
Publican
struck
on
his
brest
with
a
sorrowfull
acknowledgement
of
his
sinnes
.
Consider
secondly
,
thy
hands
and
eyes
and
tongue
and
heart
haue
beene
instruments
of
Gods
dishonour
,
therefore
by
rule
of
proportion
,
thou
shouldst
haue
the
workes
of
thy
hands
instrumentall
demonstrations
of
repentance
;
thy
eyes
fountaines
of
teares
;
thy
tongue
should
vtter
,
and
the
heart
suffer
griefe
.
Consider
,
that
for
outward
things
men
will
weepe
teares
,
as
for
deiection
from
high
places
,
losses
,
crosses
,
in
wife
,
or
children
,
as
Dauid
for
Absolon
:
so
it
is
with
many
;
what
wringing
their
hands
,
tearing
their
haire
,
bitter
crying
,
&c.
Then
the
losse
of
Christ
,
who
is
infinitely
better
than
husband
,
wife
,
child
,
or
any
thing
in
the
world
;
this
,
this
,
how
should
it
breake
thy
heart
!
If
all
Iobs
troubles
were
on
thee
,
and
could
wring
one
teare
from
thee
;
then
one
sinne
should
wring
blood
from
thy
heart
.
Get
a
hatred
and
auersion
in
thy
wil
from
sinne
,
What
sinne
is
in
it
selfe
.
How
God
is
prouoked
with
it
.
Sinne
in
it selfe
is
fouler
than
any
feind
in
hell
,
because
it
made
that
so
,
as
fire
is
hotter
then
water
that
is
heat
▪
It
s
extreamly
ill
,
nothing
comes
neare
it
.
I
consider
of
sin
here
in
the
abstract
,
so
it
s
a
greater
ill
,
than
the
damnation
of
a
mans
soule
;
for
when
two
ills
fight
together
,
that
which
conquers
must
needs
bee
the
greater
;
now
when
a
man
hath
lyen
in
hell
ten
thousand
yeares
,
he
is
as
far
from
comming
out
as
euer
;
for
the
eternall
duration
in
hell
cannot
expiate
sinne
.
It
s
most
infectious
,
It
s
compared
to
a
Leprosie
;
for
The
first
sinne
that
peeped
into
the
world
stayned
the
beuty
of
it
;
no
sooner
sinne
was
committed
by
Adam
,
but
the
Stars
seemed
impure
in
Gods
sight
,
the
beasts
were
at
variance
,
the
earth
full
of
brambles
,
and
all
things
cursed
.
Secondly
,
it
sowred
all
naturall
,
religions
,
and
ciuill
actions
.
Thirdly
,
if
a
man
in
authority
bee
sinfull
,
all
vnder
him
will
bee
infected
.
Sinne
is
most
filthy
,
compared
to
the
most
vile
things
that
can
be
named
;
to
menstruous
raggs
,
the
vomite
of
doggs
,
&c.
Nay
not
any
dirt
,
or
filthy
thing
can
staine
a
Sun-beame
But
sinne
staines
a
more
glorieus
creature
,
which
is
the
soule
of
man
.
Sinne
is
of
that
hellish
nature
,
that
it
takes
in
to
it selfe
the
wrath
of
God
.
Sinne
is
full
of
cursed
consequences
.
-
Priuatiue
:
-
Positiue
.
Priuatiue
,
losse
of
Gods
fauour
;
the
blood
of
Christ
;
the
guard
of
Angels
;
peace
of
conscience
,
&c.
Positiue
,
it
brings
all
misery
spirituall
;
hardnesse
of
heart
,
blindnesse
of
minde
,
horror
of
conscience
,
despaire
,
&c.
with
all
temporall
losses
and
crosses
here
,
and
hereafter
eternall
torments
of
soule
and
body
.
God
is
prouoked
with
it
.
Each
sinne
is
the
onely
obiect
of
Gods
infinite
hatred
.
His
loue
is
diuersified
to
himselfe
,
his
Sonne
,
the
Angels
,
the
creatures
:
but
his
hatred
is
confined
onely
to
sinne
.
What
infinite
of
infinites
of
hatred
hast
thou
on
thy
soule
,
with
all
thy
sinnes
,
when
each
sinne
hath
the
infinite
hatred
of
God
vpon
it
?
Each
sinne
is
against
the
Maiesty
of
that
dreadfull
Lord
of
Heauen
and
earth
,
who
can
turne
all
things
into
hell
,
nay
heauen
and
hell
into
nothing
by
his
word
.
Now
against
this
God
thou
sinnest
,
and
what
art
thou
,
but
dust
and
ashes
,
a
bagg
of
filth
and
flegme
,
and
all
that
's
naught
.
And
what
is
thy
life
,
but
a
span
,
a
bubble
,
a
dreame
,
a
shadow
of
a
dreame
?
And
shall
such
a
thing
offend
such
a
God
?
Euery
sinne
strikes
at
the
glory
of
Gods
pure
eye
?
Sinne
is
that
which
killed
his
Sonne
;
the
least
sinne
could
not
bee
pardoned
but
by
Christs
carrying
his
hearts
blood
to
his
Father
,
and
offering
it
for
sinne
.
Each
sinne
is
an
offence
to
all
his
mercies
.
This
aggrauated
the
sinne
vpon
Eli
,
1
Sam:
2.
29
:
Dauid
2
Sam
12.
8.
9
&c.
Mercy
is
the
most
eminent
attribute
of
God
,
and
therefore
the
sinne
against
it
is
the
greater
.
What
therefore
are
our
sinnes
in
the
time
of
the
Gospell
?
Consider
how
thou
art
hurt
by
it
:
for
Each
sinne
kills
thy
soule
which
is
better
then
the
world
.
Each
sinne
,
bring
it
neuer
so
much
pleasure
in
the
committing
,
leaues
a
threefold
sting
:
-
Naturall
.
-
Temporall
.
-
Immortall
.
Natural
,
after
worldly
pleasure
comes
melancholy
:
properly
either
because
it
lasted
no
longer
,
or
they
had
no
more
delight
in
it
,
&c.
That
as
all
waters
end
in
the
salt
sea
:
so
all
worldly
ioyes
are
swallowed
vp
in
sorrowes
bottomlesse
gulfe
.
Temporall
:
Ther
's
labour
in
getting
,
care
in
keeping
,
&
sorrow
in
parting
with
wolrdly
goods
.
Immortall
:
God
will
call
thee
to
Iudgment
for
it
.
Each
sinne
robbs
thee
of
aboundance
of
comfort
.
What
a
vast
difference
do
we
see
in
conquering
sinne
,
and
being
conquered
by
sinne
?
as
for
instance
in
Ioseph
and
Dauid
:
the
one
raised
after
his
conquest
to
much
honnour
;
the
other
,
scarce
enioyed
one
good
day
after
hee
was
conquered
;
but
as
Ezekias
,
walked
heauily
in
the
bitternesse
of
his
soule
all
his
days
.
As
some
Diuines
haue
said
of
Guliacius
&
Spira
,
the
one
is
honor'd
in
Caluins
Epistles
for
euer
▪
the
other
after
his
backsliding
liued
a
while
in
exquisite
horror
,
and
after
dyed
in
despaire
.
Thy
owne
conscience
wil
accuse
thee
one
day
for
euery
sinne
,
though
now
it
seemes
hid
to
thee
;
and
thy
conscience
is
more
then
a
thowsand
witnesses
;
therefore
thou
wilt
certainely
be
ouerthrowne
.
For
the
sinnes
which
peraduenture
thou
liuest
now
in
,
&
accountest
but
petty
and
veniall
,
many
poore
soules
are
at
this
instant
burning
in
hell
for
;
What
misery
and
hurt
then
attends
on
thee
for
the
same
?
Get
a
strong
reasoning
in
thy
minde
against
sinne
:
The
horror
of
hell
;
The
ioyes
of
heauen
;
From
euery
line
in
Gods
booke
:
His
attributes
,
as
-
1
His
Iustice
,
-
2
His
mercy
.
His
Iustice
to
terrifie
sinners
.
H●s
Mercy
to
allure
vs
to
him
.
His
Iudgements
.
His
Promises
.
Thirdly
from
logical
places
:
See
Rogers
on
meditations
,
As
-
1
The
definition
.
-
2
The
division
.
-
2
The
causes
.
-
3
The
effects
.
-
5
The
subiect
.
-
6
The
adiunct
.
-
7
The
comparison
-
8
The
contrary
.
Fourthly
,
from
places
of
Scripture
.
From
examples
in
Scripture
:
How
shall
I
do
this
,
and
so
sinne
against
God
?
saith
Ioseph
.
From
your
former
estate
,
Ye
were
darkenesse
,
but
now
yee
are
light
,
&c.
From
the
end
of
all
things
,
Seeing
all
things
must
bee
dissolued
,
what
manner
of
men
ought
wee
to
bee
?
Fiftly
,
from
thy selfe
.
Thy
soule
is
immortall
,
all
the
diuels
in
hel
cannot
kill
it
.
Thy
body
is
fraile
,
all
helps
cannot
long
vphold
it
.
Sixtly
,
from
Christ
.
Looke
vpon
him
weeping
,
nay
bleeding
on
the
crosse
,
and
saying
this
,
Sinne
brought
me
from
the
bosome
of
my
Father
to
dye
for
it
.
Seuenthly
,
from
the
incomprehensible
excellency
of
God
,
against
whom
thou
sinnest
.
Get
a
sinceere
opposition
When
any
bait
of
Sathan
,
Either
I
must
repent
,
and
then
it
will
bring
more
sorrow
than
the
pleasure
did
good
;
or
not
repent
,
and
then
it
's
the
damnation
of
my
soule
.
Consider
thy
madnesse
,
And
that
thou
maist
yet
be
further
armed
to
with
stand
the
assaults
Consider
the
shortnesse
of
the
pleasure
of
sinne
,
length
of
the
punishment
,
the
one
for
a
moment
,
the
other
euerlasting
.
Consider
the
companions
of
sinne
:
for
one
sinne
neuer
goes
alone
,
but
being
once
entertained
,
it
sets
all
the
faculties
of
the
soule
also
in
a
combustion
;
and
so
procures
a
spirituall
iudgment
,
if
not
temporall
,
vpon
estate
and
person
.
Consider
,
thy
life
is
but
a
span
,
a
breath
,
a
blast
soone
gone
:
now
if
we
had
all
the
pleasure
in
the
world
,
yet
being
so
soone
to
lose
it
,
it
s
not
worth
esteeming
.
Consider
,
sin
causeth
vs
to
lose
a
greater
good
than
that
can
be
,
as
the
fauour
of
God
,
interest
in
Christ
,
a
guard
of
Angells
,
right
to
the
creatures
&c.
Consider
the
vncertainety
of
repentance
;
thou
maist
neuer
haue
motion
to
repent
after
thou
hast
sinned
,
and
so
art
damned
.
Consider
the
nearnesse
of
death
to
thee
;
some
haue
liued
out
aboue
halfe
their
time
,
others
almost
all
of
it
;
young
and
old
dye
suddenly
many
times
.
Consider
,
one
moment
in
hell
will
bee
worse
then
all
the
pleasure
in
the
world
did
good
,
though
it
should
haue
lasted
a
thousand
yeares
twice
told
.
So
on
the
contrary
,
one
moment
in
heauen
doth
more
good
than
all
the
hardnesse
and
paines
in
good
duties
,
or
persecution
for
them
did
hurt
.
Consider
the
dignity
of
thy
soule
;
it
's
more
worth
then
a
world
.
Lose
it
not
then
for
any
sinne
.
Consider
the
preciousnesse
of
a
good
conscience
which
is
a
continuall
feast
.
This
thou
losest
by
sinne
.
Consider
thou
sinnest
against
a
world
of
mercyes
,
which
God
hath
sent
to
thee
,
as
to
soule
,
body
,
good
name
,
Estate
,
and
others
,
that
belong
to
thee
.
Consider
nothing
can
wash
away
any
sinne
but
the
blood
of
Christ
.
And
wilt
thou
now
pollute
thy selfe
againe
,
as
it
were
to
haue
him
kill'd
afresh
to
wash
away
thy
sinne
?
Consider
,
the
ancient
Martyrs
and
Worthies
chose
rather
to
burne
at
a
stake
,
than
they
would
sinne
;
and
thou
so
easily
bee
drawne
to
it
or
rather
run
to
it
?
Anselme
said
,
if
the
flames
of
hell
were
on
the
one
side
,
and
sinne
on
the
other
side
,
I
would
rather
lye
in
those
flames
than
sinne
.
And
others
would
rather
be
torne
in
pieces
with
wilde
horses
.
Wee
haue
as
precious
meanes
as
they
,
and
if
our
hearts
were
as
good
wee
should
haue
the
like
affections
.
Get
a
sinceere
grieuing
that
thou
canst
do
these
things
no
better
;
Though
thou
hadst
a
thousand
eyes
,
and
could
weepe
them
all
out
,
and
shed
riuers
of
teares
;
and
a
thousand
hearts
to
burst
;
yet
all
were
not
sufficient
for
the
least
sinne
or
vanity
,
either
of
the
eyes
or
heart
:
How
much
more
when
our
hearts
are
barren
&
dry
,
had
we
neede
to
labour
for
this
sorrow
?
Considering
when
thou
hast
made
the
best
prayer
,
or
watched
most
diligently
ouer
thy selfe
,
for
the
right
and
due
sanctification
of
the
Sabbath
,
or
spent
thy selfe
in
a
day
of
humiliation
;
thou
hadst
need
to
cry
and
burst
thy
heart
againe
for
the
imperfections
and
failings
thereof
.
In
this
sorrow
,
that
thou
canst
performe
good
duties
no
better
.
And
thus
to
weaue
vp
the
web
,
what
s
lacking
in
any
of
the
rest
,
here
make
it
vp
;
and
to
incourage
thee
,
thou
hast
this
happinesse
ioyned
with
it
,
that
though
thy
griefe
bee
small
,
if
it
bee
true
,
to
cause
thee
to
sell
all
:
how
much
more
in
the
first
place
,
to
part
from
euery
sinne
for
Christ
,
and
to
take
him
as
a
husband
,
and
a
Lord
,
both
for
protection
,
&
gouernment
?
Then
by
the
consent
of
all
Diuines
it
is
godly
sorrow
,
and
certainly
accepted
in
Christ
.
FINIS
.