HELPES
TO
HVMILIATION
.
Actes
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
greatnes
of
their
sinne
,
were
thus
wounded
at
the
heart
;
obserue
:
Point
.
That
contrition
in
a
new
creature
ordinarily
is
answerable
to
his
former
vanity
.
Instan
.
Manasse
,
2.
Chron.
33.6
.
Mary
Magdalen
,
Luke
7.
Augustine
a
great
sinner
,
wrote
12
bookes
of
Repentance
.
Reas.
1
To
whom
much
is
forgiuen
,
they
loue
much
:
and
this
is
a
fountaine
of
Evangelicall
Repentance
.
As
a
traitor
condemned
to
dye
,
receiuing
a
pardon
would
wonderfully
breake
his
heart
to
thinke
hee
should
be
so
villanous
to
so
gratious
a
Prince
:
so
it
is
with
a
Christian
that
beholds
Gods
mercy
to
him
.
Reas.
2
Christians
after
their
conversion
desire
to
see
their
sinnes
to
the
vtmost
,
with
all
the
circumstances
that
make
them
hatefull
,
as
the
object
,
nature
,
person
,
time
,
&
age
,
&c.
in
which
,
or
how
they
were
done
,
that
so
they
may
be
more
humbled
for
them
.
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
conversion
is
not
through
and
sound
,
and
so
do
not
with
such
heartines
and
chearefulnesse
performe
the
duties
of
Godlinesse
.
Secondly
,
they
are
many
times
haunted
with
listlessenesse
&
coldnesse
in
their
progresse
of
Christianity
.
Thirdly
,
they
are
visited
with
some
crosse
or
other
that
stickes
by
them
:
to
make
them
lay
a
greater
Load
vpon
sinne
.
Fourthly
,
they
are
more
subject
to
be
overtaken
with
their
sweete
sin
,
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
only
to
himselfe
;
but
thus
I
haue
knowne
some
haue
beene
troubled
,
and
this
may
be
in
great
mercy
to
make
a
weake
conversion
more
strong
.
Lest
any
Christian
should
be
troubled
at
it
,
take
notice
in
Contrition
:
There
must
be
sorrow
of
heart
because
of
sinne
.
There
must
bee
a
dislike
of
it
in
the
will
.
There
must
be
a
transmentation
or
strong
reasoning
in
the
minde
out
of
the
word
of
God
against
sinne
.
This
is
the
Sinew
of
Repentance
as
Austin
had
against
Playes
,
that
all
men
could
not
draw
him
to
them
.
There
must
be
a
resolution
and
striving
,
and
watching
against
it
,
as
Iob
with
his
eye
.
Iob
31.1
There
must
be
a
grieuing
that
hee
is
not
excellent
in
all
these
,
and
herein
hee
must
make
vp
what
hee
wanteth
in
the
former
.
These
be
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
soe
strong
a
temptation
,
and
withstood
it
;
hee
had
strong
reasons
beyond
nature
to
resist
sinne
,
and
resolue
against
it
,
so
that
it
is
not
so
much
the
measure
,
as
the
truth
of
every
part
that
is
required
.
But
if
they
be
not
in
an
excellency
in
great
sinners
,
they
are
to
mourne
for
the
want
of
them
.
To
helpe
herein
,
obserue
these
tenne
degrees
or
Acts
of
repentance
or
rather
helpes
to
Humiliation
.
Act.
1
Get
a
sight
,
and
survey
,
and
full
apprehension
of
all
thy
vilenesse
,
iniquities
,
transgressions
,
and
sinne
,
the
number
and
nature
of
them
.
Act.
2
Get
a
right
apprehension
of
GODS
wrath
and
fiery
indignation
,
and
the
pure
eye
of
God
against
sinne
.
Act.
3
Get
a
sense
of
the
vnspeakeable
misery
thou
art
lyable
to
by
reason
of
sinne
.
Act.
3
Get
a
base
esteeme
of
thy selfe
.
Act.
5
Get
an
inward
sorrow
of
heart
and
bleeding
of
soule
.
Act.
6
Get
an
outward
bewailing
with
heart-peircing
confession
.
Act.
7
Get
an
hatred
and
aversion
in
thy
will
from
sinne
.
Act.
8
Get
a
strong
reasoning
in
thy
minde
against
sinne
.
Act.
9
Get
a
sincere
opposition
in
thy
life
,
to
sinne
.
Act.
10
Get
a
sincere
grieving
that
thou
canst
doe
these
things
no
better
.
Now
for
the
first
Act
,
Act.
1
(
viz.
)
Get
a
sight
and
survey
,
and
full
apprehension
of
all
thy
vilenesse
,
iniquities
,
transgressions
and
sinnes
,
the
number
and
nature
of
them
;
for
which
purpose
take
these
three
helpes
.
Helpe
.
1
First
,
keepe
the
eye
of
thy
naturall
conscience
cleare
.
Helpe
.
2
Secondly
,
be
acquainted
with
all
the
wayes
thou
canst
possible
to
anatomize
thy
sinne
.
Helpe
.
3
Thirdly
,
take
notice
of
the
guilt
of
originall
sin
,
because
a
Christian
may
haue
his
heart
locked
vp
more
at
one
time
then
at
another
.
Helpe
.
1
For
the
first
of
which
(
viz.
)
the
keeping
of
the
eye
of
the
naturall
conscience
cleare
,
obserue
:
First
the
rules
of
the
Heathen
that
never
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
never
did
The
rules
of
the
Heathen
.
know
Christ
,
as
instance
in
:
Lying
besides
the
word
of
God
which
banisheth
it
from
Heauen
,
Revel.
22.21
.
by
the
light
of
naturall
reason
Aristotle
sayth
,
A
lye
is
evill
in
it selfe
,
and
cannot
bee
dispensed
withall
;
and
the
reason
of
it
is
this
:
wee
haue
a
tongue
giuen
vs
to
expresse
the
truth
;
now
if
our
tongue
tell
more
or
lesse
then
our
minde
conceiues
,
it
is
against
nature
.
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
skinne
,
Aristotle
Ethic.
3.
cap.
1.
that
in
some
cases
a
man
had
better
lose
his
life
then
be
cowardly
.
Drunkennesse
;
the
dayes
be
so
drowned
in
impiety
,
that
if
a
man
be
not
drunke
every
day
,
hee
will
take
it
in
a
great
disgrace
if
hee
be
not
counted
an
honest
man
;
whereas
Seneca
sayth
it
is
but
a
raging
madnesse
,
&
if
hee
should
behaue
himselfe
so
but
two
or
three
dayes
,
as
he
doth
when
hee
is
drunken
,
men
would
count
him
mad
.
Mourning
immoderately
for
losse
of
wife
or
children
.
Sene.
100.
ep.
Passions
of
anger
;
Morall
Philosophers
haue
many
excellent
rules
,
the
which
if
a
naturall
man
would
take
notice
of
,
hee
would
never
be
so
passionate
,
for
they
say
it
ariseth
first
,
From
a
great
weakenesse
of
spirit
.
For
were
hee
manly
,
hee
would
passe
by
those
things
with
scorne
:
whereas
he
shewes
himselfe
to
be
of
an
effeminate
spirit
and
impotent
affections
.
From
selfe-loue
.
From
an
over
delicacy
and
too
much
nicenesse
in
suffering
wrong
.
From
a
passing
proud
nature
,
being
affraid
to
be
contemned
.
From
too
much
credulity
,
so
that
if
one
or
two
doe
whisper
,
hee
thinkes
they
speake
something
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
over
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
sayth
Homer
,
his
eyes
sparkle
like
fire
,
his
heart
swels
,
his
pulse
beates
,
&c.
so
that
if
in
this
moode
hee
should
see
himselfe
in
a
glasse
he
would
never
againe
be
angry
.
The
endowments
of
the
Heathen
.
Secondly
,
observing
the
endowments
of
the
Heathen
.
Instance
.
1
For
instance
,
Regulus
the
Romane
,
being
taken
prisoner
of
his
enemies
the
Carthaginians
,
and
vpon
promise
of
returne
if
he
sped
not
,
obtaining
to
goe
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
disswade
them
from
commutation
;
so
as
chusing
rather
to
abide
the
certaine
cruelty
of
his
enemies
,
then
to
breake
his
faith
and
promise
;
hee
returned
,
where
hee
was
most
cruelly
vsed
of
them
;
by
whose
example
Christians
might
be
ashamed
that
make
no
matter
of
breaking
their
promises
.
Instance
.
2
Fabricius
attained
to
that
height
of
excellency
,
that
it
was
sayd
,
A
man
may
as
soone
pull
the
Sunne
from
its
Spheare
,
as
that
man
from
his
honest
and
just
dealing
.
Instance
.
3
Cato
was
so
excellent
,
that
it
is
sayd
;
hee
did
not
good
for
feare
,
shame
,
profit
,
&c.
but
because
goodnes
was
so
incorporated
into
him
,
that
hee
could
not
doe
otherwise
.
Instance
.
4
Cambyses
stood
so
stricktly
against
bribery
,
that
a
Iudge
being
taken
in
that
crime
,
hee
flayed
him
,
and
set
his
skinne
in
the
seate
of
Iustice
,
and
let
his
son
leane
thereon
that
hee
might
hate
that
vice
.
Instance
.
5
Zaleuchus
King
of
the
Locrians
,
made
a
law
for
adultery
,
that
whosoever
was
taken
in
that
fact
should
haue
his
eyes
pulled
out
;
now
his
owne
sonne
being
taken
in
that
fault
first
,
because
he
would
not
violate
his
own
decree
,
pulled
out
one
of
his
sonnes
eyes
,
and
one
of
his
owne
.
Common
notions
in
Heathen
.
Thirdly
,
obseruing
the
common
notions
of
nature
,
which
were
in
the
Heathen
as
,
All
good
is
to
be
done
.
All
evill
is
to
be
avoided
.
Kinde
is
to
be
propagated
.
Do
as
we
would
be
done
by
.
God
is
to
be
honoured
,
from
whence
ariseth
this
objection
,
namely
:
Quaest.
Is
not
this
notion
extinguished
in
them
that
deny
God
?
Ans.
Not
vtterly
,
but
it
generally
dwels
in
them
;
so
farre
onely
they
haue
vse
of
it
,
as
to
leaue
them
without
excuse
,
Rom.
1.19.20
.
A
mans
life
is
to
be
preserued
:
Now
selfe
preservation
is
soe
ingrafted
into
the
blood
&
veines
;
that
therefore
the
selfe-murderer
sinneth
:
Against
God
the
Father
.
Against
God
the
Sonne
.
Against
God
the
holy
Ghost
.
Against
the
light
of
nature
.
Against
God
the
Father
.
For
the
first
,
(
viz.
)
thou
sinnest
against
God
the
Father
,
who
commandeth
,
Thou
shalt
not
kill
,
and
soe
thou
sinnest
:
Against
the
image
of
God
,
in
that
thou
destroyest
it
.
Against
his
Soveraignty
;
for
,
Hee
hath
appointed
thee
to
worke
in
his
vineyard
,
and
thou
wilt
rather
dye
,
&c.
as
if
hee
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
.
Against
God
the
Sonne
.
Thou
sinnest
against
God
the
Son
;
for
,
Thou
art
none
of
thine
owne
,
thou
art
bought
with
aprice
:
this
will
helpe
thee
against
the
Divels
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
.
Against
God
the
Holy
Ghost
.
Thou
sinnest
against
God
the
holy
Ghost
;
for
,
Thou
pollutest
thy
soule
with
blood
;
and
,
It
is
the
office
of
the
Spirit
to
dwell
with
vs
:
and
It
is
the
office
of
the
Spirit
to
invite
vs
to
taste
of
the
good
blessings
of
God
,
as
Esay
51.
Oh!
Object
.
but
my
soule
is
blacke
with
sinne
,
Sol.
&c.
This
is
the
action
of
the
Spirit
to
reveale
this
vnto
thee
.
Against
the
light
of
nature
.
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
divels
which
is
a
Bedlam
madnesse
.
Helpe
.
2
Be
acquainted
with
all
the
wayes
thou
canst
possibly
,
how
to
anatomize
thy
sinnes
;
for
which
purpose
take
these
methods
and
helpes
.
Method
.
1
Bee
perfect
in
the
Law
of
God
,
and
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
Family
;
Privately
with
thy selfe
.
In
examination
.
In
renewing
thy
repentance
.
In
covenanting
with
thy
thoughts
to
spend
that
whole
day
in
holy
things
.
Celebration
.
It
may
be
for
scandalous
sinnes
in
thy
life
thou
hast
beene
sorrowfull
,
but
thou
hast
passed
the
Sabbath
with
many
wandrings
;
for
which
thou
hast
not
beene
humbled
:
All
these
are
to
be
brought
to
thy
minde
with
much
bleeding
.
An
vtter
Cessation
or
abstinence
from
thoughts
,
words
,
&
deeds
;
of
calling
,
or
recreation
;
more
then
for
necessity
,
mercy
,
or
comelinesse
.
Method
.
2
Take
survey
of
all
the
wrong
which
wee
haue
offered
to
all
things
in
Heaven
and
Earth
;
all
things
are
the
worse
for
a
wicked
man
,
soe
farre
as
his
sinne
can
adde
hurt
vnto
them
Method
.
3
Take
a
perusall
of
thy selfe
from
top
to
toe
.
The
sinnes
of
thy
eyes
:
each
thing
thou
lookest
on
,
not
making
a
holy
vse
of
them
,
is
a
sinne
of
omission
:
consider
then
how
many
there
are
every
day
,
and
,
if
in
one
part
so
many
,
what
are
there
in
the
whole
body
?
Method
.
4
Consider
all
the
commissions
,
and
omissions
as
thou
standest
in
severall
relations
.
As
a
Creature
,
how
thou
hast
carried
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
neighbour
,
to
them
without
,
or
to
Gods
children
.
As
a
Subject
,
&c.
Take
notice
of
all
thy
faylings
in
all
these
,
and
thou
shalt
finde
sufficient
matter
for
a
day
of
humiliation
.
Method
.
5
Labour
to
get
(
as
I
am
perswaded
every
Christian
hath
)
two
Catalogues
of
thy
sins
,
before
conversion
,
and
since
.
Of
Gods
mercies
,
spirituall
and
temporall
.
Helpe
.
3
Take
notice
of
the
guilt
of
originall
sinne
.
Now
because
a
Christian
may
haue
his
heart
locked
vp
more
at
one
time
then
at
another
,
let
them
in
case
of
barrennesse
,
consider
these
sixe
quickning
points
.
Quick
.
Point
.
1
Looke
to
the
seede
,
and
sinke
,
and
naturall
inclination
of
thy
heart
to
all
manner
of
wickednesse
;
for
suppose
by
the
mercy
of
God
thou
wert
able
to
say
,
and
that
truely
,
that
thou
couldest
not
possibly
finde
any
actuall
sin
within
thee
:
yet
looke
backe
to
the
corrupt
fountaine
,
and
there
thou
shalt
finde
that
thou
and
the
most
holy
Christian
on
earth
,
whilst
thou
livest
in
this
house
of
flesh
and
tabernacle
of
clay
,
thou
hast
it
in
thy
nature
to
sinne
against
the
Holy
Ghost
,
to
kill
Iesus
Christ
,
to
commit
sodomy
;
and
what
hindereth
but
Gods
free
mercy
?
This
then
throughly
considered
,
is
sufficient
matter
to
humble
thee
,
to
consider
with
thy selfe
what
a
wretch
am
I
yet
,
that
haue
this
seede
still
in
my
bowels
.
Quic.
Point
.
2
Consider
and
throughly
weigh
the
circumstances
of
all
thy
sinnes
,
of
thy
vnregeneration
,
at
what
time
,
in
what
place
,
with
what
scandall
,
&c.
As
Austin
sayth
of
himselfe
,
hee
did
wonderfully
weepe
in
reading
the
fourth
booke
of
Virgill
when
Dido
was
killed
;
what
a
damn'd
soule
had
I
(
quoth
hee
)
that
could
weepe
for
her
misery
,
and
not
for
my
owne
?
so
when
hee
listned
to
musicke
,
and
to
the
tune
in
singing
of
a
Psalme
in
the
Church
,
rather
then
kept
his
heart
to
goe
along
with
the
matter
:
and
for
being
much
addicted
to
stage-playes
,
and
many
more
,
but
especially
for
robbing
an
orchard
,
which
hee
aggravates
by
many
circumstances
;
that
great
renowned
Father
left
this
example
to
all
posterity
;
whereas
if
a
young
man
now
adayes
should
but
crye
out
of
robbing
an
orchard
,
hee
would
be
thought
simple
and
too
precise
.
Looke
the
second
booke
of
his
Confessions
,
Cap.
4.
where
see
his
sinne
aggravated
,
by
these
ten
circumstances
.
Circumstance
.
1
Sayth
hee
,
this
theft
which
I
committed
was
not
onely
in
the
booke
of
God
forbidden
,
but
I
had
it
in
my
heart
dayly
.
Circumstance
.
2
Volui
,
feci
I
resolued
with
free
will
to
doe
it
,
and
I
did
it
.
Circumstance
.
3
Fastidio
aequitatis
,
I
did
not
doe
it
for
want
,
but
in
disdaine
of
goodnesse
,
and
out
of
an
eager
desire
to
do
wrong
.
Circumstance
.
4
I
had
abundance
of
the
same
kinde
&
better
at
home
.
Circumstance
.
5
I
did
steale
them
,
not
soe
much
to
injoy
the
thing
,
as
mine
owne
theft
,
that
it
might
be
sayd
of
my
old
companions
,
that
I
robd
an
Orchard
.
Circumstance
.
6
There
was
a
number
of
desperate
swaggerers
and
incarnate
Divels
with
mee
.
Circumstance
.
7
Nocte
intempestiva
,
at
midnight
:
which
hee
aggravates
with
another
Circumstance
,
when
wee
had
been
sporting
and
dancing
,
and
drinking
we
did
it
.
Circumstance
.
8
We
carried
al
away
.
Circumstance
.
9
We
carried
so
many
away
,
that
they
were
a
burden
to
vs
.
Circumstance
.
10
When
wee
came
home
we
gaue
them
to
the
swine
:
and
then
at
the
conclusion
,
hee
cryes
,
Oh
my
God
,
behold
my
heart
,
Ecce
cor
meum
Deus
.
If
wee
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
aggravations
,
that
by
the
mercy
of
God
,
might
terrifie
them
from
their
evill
courses
.
Quic.
Point
.
3
In
case
of
barrennesse
consider
,
wee
had
our
hands
in
the
sinne
of
Adam
,
and
soe
brought
all
the
sorrow
,
sinne
,
and
damnation
vpon
all
men
that
are
or
shall
be
damned
,
and
we
are
guilty
of
all
the
horrours
of
conscience
;
If
wee
had
not
hearts
of
adamant
,
or
hewn
out
of
a
rocke
,
or
had
sucked
the
brest
of
Wolues
or
Tigers
,
wee
would
be
moued
at
this
,
which
is
able
to
breake
a
thousand
adamants
.
I
speake
advisedly
,
it
is
able
to
open
a
wide
gap
of
penitent
teares
in
the
most
flinty
soule
of
the
most
bloody
sinner
.
Quic.
Point
.
4
Cut
of
all
sin
both
originall
and
actuall
that
thou
hast
taken
notice
of
,
and
do
but
consider
the
imperfections
that
follow
the
best
actions
,
the
innumerable
distractions
of
the
most
holy
prayer
that
ever
thou
madest
;
the
sins
of
the
last
Sabbath
,
thy
deadnesse
,
fruitlesnesse
,
&c.
Quic.
Point
.
5
Remoue
all
personall
sinnes
,
yet
consider
how
many
wayes
wee
haue
our
hands
in
others
sins
,
which
(
it
may
be
)
they
haue
carried
to
hell
with
them
.
Wee
haue
a
world
of
matter
from
hence
to
breake
our
hearts
:
for
wee
may
be
guilty
of
others
sins
13
wayes
;
There
is
none
but
are
guilty
of
some
of
these
wayes
.
viz.
First
,
by
incouraging
them
,
as
those
Prophets
which
cryed
Peace
,
peace
,
when
there
is
no
peace
,
when
they
are
but
formall
or
civill
professors
,
those
that
sow
pillowes
vnder
mens
elbowes
,
that
heale
the
wounds
of
the
people
with
faire
words
,
when
there
is
nothing
towards
,
Esa.
9.5
.
Eze.
13.10
.
Ier.
14.14
.
but
tumbling
garments
in
blood
,
and
vengeance
,
and
devouring
with
fire
.
Aske
all
those
Ministers
that
reveale
not
the
whole
counsell
of
God
,
who
sent
them
to
incourage
;
it
shall
all
fall
to
nothing
;
but
you
of
this
place
are
inexcusable
,
for
wherin
haue
I
hid
any
thing
from
you
?
no
,
I
dare
not
be
guilty
of
any
mans
blood
that
way
for
the
damnation
of
my
soule
.
By
provoking
;
as
Iob's
wife
sayd
to
him
,
Curse
God
&
dye
:
Iob.
2.9
.
so
,
Eph.
6.4
.
Fathers
provoke
not
your
Children
to
wrath
,
for
they
then
are
guilty
of
their
sins
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
Iehosophat
for
associating
himselfe
with
wicked
Ahab
,
2.
Chron.
20.37
.
saying
Shouldest
thou
countenance
the
vngodly
,
&
loue
them
that
hate
the
Lord
?
Therefore
is
wrath
vpon
thee
before
the
Lord
.
Or
as
Psalm
.
50.18
.
When
thou
sawest
a
theefe
,
thou
consentedst
with
him
,
and
hast
beene
partakers
with
adulterers
.
Therefore
as
Moyses
sayd
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
,
lest
yee
perish
in
her
sinnes
,
and
be
destroyed
with
her
plagues
,
Rev.
18.
David
sayth
,
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
,
from
whom
they
must
be
separated
in
the
world
to
come
?
But
for
works
of
thy
particular
calling
,
as
bying
,
selling
,
salutations
,
&c.
wee
must
haue
these
,
or
we
must
out
of
this
world
,
as
1.
Co
5.10.11
By
participation
,
Thy
Princes
are
rebellious
,
Esa.
1.23
.
&
companions
of
theues
:
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
governement
,
and
they
are
all
set
on
their
score
,
without
repentance
.
By
silence
when
thou
hearest
a
good
man
traduced
&
sayest
nothing
;
especially
dumbe
dogges
;
every
Sabbath
is
a
bloody
day
to
them
,
for
their
silence
is
cause
of
all
the
iniquities
done
that
day
,
and
all
these
things
which
they
doe
amisse
,
whether
by
swearing
,
Ale-house
haunting
,
&c.
all
are
set
on
their
score
:
so
all
those
that
ore
faint
and
cowardly
for
Gods
glory
and
truth
.
By
defending
,
Esa.
5.20
.
Woe
to
them
that
call
darknesse
light
,
and
light
darknes
;
Therefore
if
any
by
quicknesse
of
wit
will
labour
to
maintaine
vsury
,
bribery
,
&c.
they
are
all
guilty
of
those
sinnes
.
By
Counselling
,
1
Kings
21.7
.
as
Iesabell
counselled
her
husband
to
kill
Naboth
.
Or
as
those
who
say
,
Come
,
let
vs
crowne
our selues
with
rose
buds
before
they
be
withered
,
Wis.
2
9
let
vs
all
be
partaker
of
our
wantonnesse
,
&c.
2.
Sam.
11.15
.
By
commanding
,
as
David
commanded
Vriah
to
be
set
in
the
sore-front
of
the
battell
,
and
therefore
guilty
of
his
death
.
By
commending
,
Act
12.22
.
as
those
that
commended
Herod
for
his
oration
,
saying
,
It
is
the
voice
of
a
God
;
they
were
guilty
of
his
sin
in
taking
honour
from
God
.
By
connivency
,
1.
Sam.
3.13
.
as
Ely
winked
at
his
sons
;
for
Which
you
may
see
what
a
fearfull
judgement
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
children
and
servants
swearing
,
Sabboath
breaking
,
&c.
If
these
be
not
guilty
of
the
former
sinnes
,
yet
they
are
guilty
in
not
praying
with
them
&
bringing
them
to
extraordinary
exercises
.
By
consenting
;
Acts
22.20
.
as
Paul
bewayled
that
hee
carried
the
cloathes
of
them
that
slew
Stephen
when
hee
was
stoned
.
By
not
sorrowing
for
them
:
Psal.
119.136
.
Psal.
25.13
.
Mar.
3.5
.
David
shewes
what
Christians
ought
to
doe
.
By
not
praying
against
them
,
for
the
suppressing
of
them
.
Quic.
Point
.
6
Consider
the
sins
of
the
times
:
Davids
eyes
gush
out
with
teares
to
see
men
transgresse
the
Law
.
Psal.
119.136
.
Soe
Lots
heart
was
vexed
dayly
with
the
sinnes
of
the
people
amongst
whom
hee
liued
,
2.
Pet.
2.8
.
And
blessed
are
they
that
mourne
,
so
Math.
5.4
.
Obserue
these
severall
branches
well
,
&
thou
shalt
finde
sins
enow
to
mourne
for
.
Second
Act.
Now
for
the
2
Act.
viz.
A
right
apprehension
of
Gods
wrath
and
fierce
indignation
,
&
the
pure
eye
of
God
against
sin
.
Now
the
Christian
oftentimes
complaines
,
that
hee
cannot
apprehend
Gods
wrath
sufficiently
.
Let
him
take
these
helpes
Helpe
.
1
The
severity
of
Gods
Iudgement
against
sin
;
for
which
He
threw
downe
the
Angels
from
Heaven
to
be
Divels
for
ever
,
(
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
and
his
posterity
.
Hee
drowned
the
world
;
Gen
7.
which
shews
the
infinite
purity
in
God
not
to
abide
sinne
.
Hee
burnt
Sodome
for
those
very
sinnes
now
reigning
amongst
vs
.
Ezec.
16.49
.
Hee
rejected
the
Iewes
which
were
his
most
deare
people
:
for
they
soe
provoked
GOD
,
that
they
are
now
no
nation
,
and
his
wrath
hath
so
fiercely
seized
on
them
,
that
they
are
most
cursed
vagabonds
,
and
soe
haue
beene
a
thousand
sixe
hundred
yeares
.
Consider
,
he
hath
created
horrour
of
conscience
which
is
a
hell
vpon
earth
for
the
punishment
of
sin
;
but
aboue
all
,
the
torments
of
hell
,
that
woefull
place
and
state
prepared
for
the
wicked
,
where
the
greater
part
of
the
world
shall
be
howling
for
ever
.
Helpe
.
2
Consider
how
hard
a
thing
it
is
to
get
pardon
for
sinne
,
in
that
the
Iustice
of
God
,
was
hard
to
be
satisfied
.
Imagine
all
the
world
were
turned
into
a
masse
or
lumpe
of
gold
,
the
stones
of
the
streetes
into
precious
pearles
,
and
the
Sea
and
Rivers
all
flowing
with
liquid
streames
of
most
pure
gold
:
Mic.
6
,
7.
they
would
not
satisfie
the
wrath
of
God
for
the
least
sinne
:
if
all
the
Angels
and
creatures
in
heaven
and
earth
had
joyned
together
and
made
one
fervent
prayer
for
mans
sinne
,
nay
if
they
had
offered
themselues
to
haue
beene
annihilated
,
it
could
never
haue
beene
effected
;
nay
if
the
Sonne
of
God
himselfe
should
haue
supplicated
his
Father
with
most
earnest
intreaties
,
hee
could
not
haue
been
heard
vnlesse
he
had
taken
our
flesh
vpon
him
,
and
suffered
what
divels
&
men
could
imagine
to
inflict
vpon
him
.
Which
well
considered
,
there
is
infinite
cause
to
bring
vs
to
a
sense
of
Gods
wrath
,
that
he
should
lay
,
and
suffer
such
infinite
torments
to
be
on
him
,
that
hee
cryes
out
vnto
God
,
My
God
,
my
God
,
why
hast
thou
forsaken
mee
?
Though
hee
loued
him
infinitely
as
himselfe
,
yet
hee
would
haue
his
Iustice
satisfied
.
Helpe
.
3
The
vnresistable
comming
of
God
against
sinners
,
though
hee
is
wonderfull
ready
and
easie
to
be
intreated
whilst
hee
vouchsafeth
a
day
of
visitation
;
But
if
men
will
withstand
the
day
,
then
he
comes
in
devouring
rage
;
and
his
wrath
being
once
kindled
shall
burne
to
the
bottome
of
hell
;
them
his
Arrowes
shall
drinke
blood
and
eate
flesh
,
Hosea
13.8
.
then
will
hee
meete
them
as
a
Beare
robbed
of
her
whelpes
,
&
teare
in
pieces
when
there
is
none
to
helpe
,
Psal.
7.2
.
And
Esay
66.15
.
is
set
downe
the
manner
of
his
comming
,
with
fire
and
Chariots
like
a
whirlewinde
.
Helpe
.
4
Gods
holinesse
,
which
opposeth
sin
,
and
is
contrary
to
it
,
that
hee
lookes
not
on
the
least
sinne
with
the
least
allowance
.
Third
Act.
Get
a
sense
of
the
vnspeakeable
misery
thou
art
lyable
vnto
by
reason
of
sinne
;
for
which
purpose
consider
all
thy
sins
,
with
their
circumstances
,
as
of
times
,
past
,
present
,
and
to
come
.
Time
past
.
Looke
backe
vpon
all
thy
sinnes
past
that
ever
thou
committedst
,
all
thou
hast
beene
guilty
of
ever
since
thou
wast
borne
,
originall
,
or
actuall
,
knowne
,
or
vnknowne
,
of
thought
,
word
and
deede
;
They
are
written
with
a
pen
of
iron
,
and
with
the
point
of
a
diamond
,
not
to
be
raced
out
:
they
are
all
vpon
Record
,
and
now
lye
as
so
many
sleeping
Lyons
,
gathering
strength
and
vigour
against
such
time
as
the
Lord
shall
awake
the
conscience
;
and
then
they
will
appeare
&
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
a
small
sin
put
to
such
frights
,
as
they
could
not
be
comforted
in
a
long
space
;
as
some
who
hauing
an
adulterous
project
,
without
any
actual
pollution
;
and
others
who
hauing
found
a
trifle
,
and
made
no
conscience
to
restore
it
;
by
the
light
of
naturall
conscience
,
knowing
they
did
not
as
they
would
be
done
by
,
were
put
into
vnspeakable
horrour
;
and
some
who
hauing
an
vnworthy
thought
of
God
,
were
put
into
such
amazement
,
that
they
wisht
they
had
never
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
horrour
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
sins
?
as
lies
,
oathes
,
raylings
,
scoffings
,
at
Gods
people
,
rotten
speeches
;
bedlam
passions
,
goods
ill
gotten
,
time
ill
spent
,
prophanation
of
Sabboaths
,
and
killing
Christ
at
every
Sacrament
,
as
all
naturall
men
doe
:
These
shall
be
summoned
before
thee
;
&
charged
vpon
thy
conscience
by
the
just
God
;
then
consider
in
proportion
what
horror
will
be
in
thine
heart
;
no
heart
can
conceiue
it
,
nor
tongue
of
men
and
Angels
vtter
it
.
Now
then
attend
,
and
let
none
blesse
themselues
&
say
,
I
never
felt
this
misery
,
therfore
it
shall
never
hurt
mee
;
I
tell
the
;
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
miserie
;
and
the
reasons
why
thou
canst
not
see
it
,
are
these
seaven
.
Reas.
1
The
divell
,
while
thou
art
his
,
will
not
trouble
thee
;
hee
is
a
Politician
of
almost
sixe
thousand
yeares
experience
,
&
knowes
if
once
thou
see
thy
sinnes
hee
shall
loose
thee
;
therfore
hee
blindes
thee
.
Reas.
2
Thy
conscience
is
lull'd
asleepe
with
carnall
pleasure
,
and
worldly
contentments
.
Reas.
3
A
bucket
of
water
is
heavy
on
earth
,
in
its
owne
place
it
is
not
soe
.
When
men
are
meerely
naturall
,
sinne
is
in
its
owne
place
,
and
the
weight
is
not
felt
.
Reas.
4
The
conscience
of
a
naturall
man
is
like
a
wolfe
in
a
mans
body
,
while
it
s
fed
with
carnall
friends
,
good
fellowship
,
some
great
busines
of
the
world
,
&c.
it
s
quiet
;
but
take
this
away
,
and
then
it
s
felt
.
Reas.
5
A
naturall
man
is
spiritually
dead
,
Ephes.
2.1
.
&
a
dead
man
feeles
no
weight
you
know
.
Reas.
6
Hee
lookes
on
sin
through
false
glasses
,
as
vpon
covetousnes
&
vsury
,
through
the
glasse
of
good
husbandry
;
so
prodigality
through
the
glasse
of
liberality
.
Reas.
7
For
want
of
consideration
;
If
we
would
by
our selues
consider
when
the
Minister
presseth
Sabbath
breaking
,
or
any
other
sinne
,
and
say
,
this
is
my
case
,
but
now
by
the
mercy
of
God
I
will
be
humbled
;
this
would
much
helpe
vs
to
see
our
misery
.
Thou
hast
had
thy
hand
in
murthering
many
a
soule
;
all
thy
drunken
companions
,
thy
brethren
in
iniquity
,
many
peradventure
with
whom
thou
hast
conversed
are
dead
,
and
in
hell
long
agoe
;
thou
art
guilty
of
the
damnation
of
their
soules
.
Cain
was
a
cursed
man
,
&
had
a
brand
vpon
him
for
killing
but
a
man
,
then
how
will
the
murthering
of
soe
many
soules
affright
thee
,
if
thou
hast
beene
a
meanes
to
set
them
to
Hell
?
as
For
thy
wife
;
thou
shouldst
haue
liued
with
her
as
a
man
of
knowledge
.
For
thy
Children
;
thou
shouldst
haue
catechised
them
,
and
brought
them
vp
in
religion
.
For
thy
servants
,
it
may
be
thy
example
hath
made
them
swear
,
lye
,
&c:
How
wil
their
soules
curse
thee
in
the
pitte
of
hell
,
and
curse
that
time
,
that
ever
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
beene
Gods
Free-man
,
and
wouldest
not
,
the
divell
hath
bid
thee
lye
,
sweare
,
breake
Gods
sabboath
,
&c.
&
thou
hast
obeyed
him
,
and
beene
thee
divels
drudge
.
The
Turkish
fetters
are
but
cold
iron
at
the
worst
,
but
thine
be
invisible
chaines
of
eternall
damnation
:
Hee
scourgeth
thy
naked
soule
with
invisible
scorpions
,
feeds
thee
every
day
with
fire
and
brimstone
;
When
thou
art
out
of
the
Turkish
slavery
,
thou
mayest
be
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
he
will
locke
thee
vp
in
perpetuall
torments
,
where
thou
shalt
never
be
freede
from
Divels
.
First
,
For
present
time
.
now
thou
art
in
health
,
thou
thinkest
all
is
well
;
but
know
to
the
contrary
,
whilst
thou
art
but
naturall
,
and
vnconverted
:
Thou
doshonourest
God
in
a
high
degree
,
thou
provokest
the
glory
of
his
pure
eye
every
day
by
every
sinne
thou
committest
.
Thou
tramplest
vnder
foote
the
blood
of
Christ
in
every
Sacrament
,
if
thou
beest
not
a
convert
.
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
wayes
,
and
be
Gods
servant
:
but
presently
thou
stiflest
it
by
worldly
talke
,
and
thy
old
companions
.
The
Angels
offer
to
guard
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
,
neighbours
and
all
thou
canst
to
Hell
,
by
thy
ill
example
,
&c.
The
creatures
thou
art
mercilesse
vnto
,
for
thy
sin
addes
to
their
misery
which
they
groane
vnder
;
and
thou
yet
addest
to
their
burden
by
thy
sinne
.
Thou
art
lyable
to
all
the
ill
a
man
vnconverted
may
indure
,
or
to
any
sin
that
a
man
destitute
of
divine
grace
may
commit
as
,
To
spirituall
hardnesse
of
heart
,
blindnesse
of
minde
,
slavery
vnder
thy
lusts
,
searednesse
of
conscience
,
or
committing
the
sinne
against
the
Holy
Ghost
.
To
temporall
;
any
thing
that
may
befall
any
man
,
For
time
to
come
.
as
to
be
possessed
of
the
divell
,
&c.
I
wish
every
naturall
man
seriously
to
consider
this
;
for
thou
dying
in
thy
naturall
estate
,
art
certainely
damned
,
and
for
any
thing
thou
knowest
thou
mayest
dye
the
next
moment
,
and
then
all
things
are
thine
enimies
;
death
,
which
is
certaine
:
but
how
,
when
,
or
where
,
thou
knowest
not
.
Calvin
sayth
,
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
sins
haue
begotten
new
diseases
;
&
thou
mayest
die
suddenly
by
an
impostume
:
thy
house
may
be
fiered
and
thou
consumed
by
it
;
thy
horse
may
stumble
,
and
soe
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
sette
,
though
now
thou
be
in
perfect
strength
?
But
however
,
nature
will
end
at
length
,
Sathan
then
is
ready
to
come
with
his
vtmost
malice
,
when
thou
art
faint
and
loath
to
depart
;
then
hee
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
Divell
will
pleade
to
haue
thee
.
Then
comes
the
internall
separation
from
God
and
possession
of
those
torments
which
are
easelesse
,
endlesse
,
&
remedilesse
.
Oh
the
tearing
of
the
heart
,
and
the
gnashing
of
the
teeth
,
that
this
will
produce
,
especially
when
you
consider
God
every
Sabbaoth
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
rejected
them
;
the
Minister
hee
pressed
hard
to
haue
you
yeeld
,
hut
you
withstood
him
Oh
the
hellish
cryes
that
these
will
fetch
from
such
an
heart
.
Fourth
.
Act.
Wherefore
let
this
betimes
begette
in
thee
a
base
esteeme
of
thy selfe
;
consider
,
Helpe
.
1
Thou
art
worse
then
a
Toad
;
nay
a
Toade
is
a
faire
amiable
creature
in
comparison
of
thee
.
For
first
,
a
Toad
following
the
instinct
of
nature
,
serues
the
Creator
in
its
kinde
,
it
suckes
vp
the
venome
of
the
earth
,
which
otherwise
would
poyson
vs
:
but
thou
art
a
degenerate
creature
&
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
venome
of
a
Toad
kills
but
the
body
:
the
poyson
of
sinne
kills
both
body
and
soule
.
Thirdly
,
When
a
Toad
dyes
its
misery
is
ended
,
but
then
thy
woe
begins
;
then
thou
wilt
wish
thou
hadst
beene
any
thing
but
a
man
Helpe
.
2
If
thou
hadst
looked
vpon
that
man
in
Math.
8.
possessed
with
a
Devill
,
who
dwelt
among
the
Tombes
,
went
naked
,
chaines
would
not
hold
him
,
the
Devill
was
soe
powerfull
in
him
:
thou
wouldst
haue
thought
him
a
dreadfull
spectacle
of
extreame
misery
;
to
haue
a
legion
of
devils
by
computation
sixe
thousand
sixe
hundred
sixtie
sixe
:
but
I
tell
thee
thou
hadst
better
haue
a
thousand
Legions
,
then
one
vnrepented
sinne
;
for
The
devill
he
can
haue
power
but
over
the
body
,
and
so
he
may
over
a
Saint
,
and
had
over
Christ
to
carry
him
to
the
top
of
a
Pinnacle
:
but
never
sin
,
like
thine
of
obstinate
and
finall
impenitencie
,
was
found
in
a
sanctified
man
.
Sinne
made
the
divell
so
vgly
as
hee
is
,
being
else
of
an
Angelicall
nature
;
onely
sinne
makes
him
odious
;
therfore
it
is
worse
than
a
thousand
divels
,
yea
worse
than
either
the
tongue
of
men
and
Angells
can
expresse
.
All
the
divels
in
hell
in
thy
body
,
cannot
doe
the
one
pinnesworth
of
hurt
for
the
salvation
of
thy
soule
:
but
one
sinne
wilfully
vnrepented
of
,
and
so
vnpardoned
,
will
damne
it
;
so
that
it
were
better
to
be
possessed
with
a
thousand
devills
,
then
one
sinne
vnrepented
of
;
&
vnpardoned
.
Fifth
Act.
Get
an
inward
wounding
of
thine
heart
and
bleeding
of
soule
;
Where
take
these
helpes
.
Helpe
.
1
First
,
thy
heart
that
hath
beene
the
fountaine
,
or
rather
sinke
from
whence
haue
issued
many
foule
streames
,
where
all
ill
hath
beene
forged
,
all
evill
words
,
raging
passions
,
&
wicked
thoughts
;
Now
then
by
the
rule
of
proportion
,
let
thy
heart
be
a
fountaine
of
sorrow
for
sinne
;
If
Christ
open
a
fountaine
of
mercy
for
mourners
,
let
not
vs
be
excluded
for
want
of
sorrow
.
Helpe
.
2
Consider
the
heart
of
Christ
,
he
had
not
taken
vpon
himselfe
a
heart
of
flesh
,
but
for
sinne
,
which
for
thy
sake
was
tilled
with
that
singular
depth
of
sorrow
&
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
countervaile
the
depth
of
his
anguish
.
Shall
then
his
blessed
soule
fall
asunder
in
his
blessed
breast
,
assaulted
with
al
the
wrath
of
God
,
and
the
second
death
?
Shall
his
soule
be
like
a
scorched
hearth
;
&
so
pressed
with
the
flames
of
Gods
revenging
wrath
,
which
wrung
from
him
those
bloody
drops
and
ruefull
cryes
,
My
God
,
my
God
,
why
hast
thou
forsaken
mee
?
The
wrath
of
God
was
so
fierce
on
him
,
that
(
I
say
)
droppes
of
blood
fell
from
him
:
and
shall
thy
heart
be
as
a
stone
within
thy
breast
,
and
never
be
moued
?
Oh
prodigious
hardnesse
,
and
worse
then
heathenish
ingratitude
!
Helpe
.
3
If
thy
heart
be
not
wounded
here
in
some
measure
truly
,
it
shall
hereafter
be
filled
with
such
endlesse
horrour
,
that
would
grieue
and
breake
ten
thousand
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
horrour
of
hell
?
Is
any
man
so
senselesse
to
thinke
he
shall
goe
to
heaven
as
in
a
bed
of
downe
;
and
never
be
touched
for
his
sinne
,
which
is
as
impossible
,
as
for
thee
to
reach
heaven
with
thy
hand
.
When
Hezekiah
a
man
perfect
in
all
his
wayes
,
Esa.
38.14
.
complained
&
chattered
like
a
Crane
:
David
roared
all
the
day
long
:
Psal.
32.3
.
Iob
complained
,
Iob.
6.4
.
The
arrowes
of
the
Almighty
are
within
mee
,
the
venom
whereof
doth
drinke
vp
my
spirit
.
Nay
Christ
himselfe
cryed
out
in
the
Agony
of
his
Spirit
.
Helpe
.
4
If
thou
get
this
broken
heart
into
thy
breast
,
thou
shalt
bring
downe
the
glorious
majesty
of
heauen
;
GOD
Almighty
with
his
chaire
of
State
to
sit
in
thy
soule
;
for
hee
hath
two
habitations
.
Esay
.
57.15
.
1
In
heaven
.
2
In
an
humble
heart
.
Helpe
.
5
Get
this
and
get
all
.
Thou
gettest
true
title
and
interest
vnto
the
passion
of
Christ
,
and
all
the
conforts
in
the
booke
of
God
,
the
promises
both
of
this
life
,
and
of
that
to
come
.
Sixt
Act.
Get
an
outward
bewayling
with
heart-pearcing
confession
:
where
Helpe
.
1
Consider
first
,
the
practice
of
the
Saints
of
God
.
They
powred
out
teares
as
men
water
out
of
Buckets
.
1.
Sam.
7.
Mary
washed
Christs
feete
with
her
teares
.
The
Publican
strucke
on
his
breast
with
a
sorrowfull
acknowledgement
of
his
sinnes
.
Helpe
.
2
Consider
secondly
,
thy
hands
,
&
eies
,
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
heart
suffer
griefe
.
Helpe
.
3
Consider
,
that
for
outward
things
men
will
weepe
teares
,
as
for
dejection
from
high
places
,
losses
,
crosses
,
in
wife
or
children
,
as
David
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
.
Seventh
Act.
Get
a
hatred
and
aversion
in
thy
will
from
sin
,
considering
these
three
helpes
.
What
sinne
is
in
it selfe
.
How
God
is
provoked
with
it
.
How
thou
art
hurt
by
it
.
Helpe
.
1
What
sinne
is
.
Sinne
in
it selfe
is
fouler
than
any
fiend
in
hell
,
because
it
made
that
so
;
as
fire
is
hotter
then
water
that
is
heat
.
It
's
extreamely
ill
,
nothing
comes
neare
it
.
I
consider
of
sinne
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
needes
be
the
greater
;
now
when
a
man
hath
lyen
in
hell
ten
thousand
yeares
,
hee
is
as
farre
from
comming
out
as
ever
;
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
beauty
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
natural
,
religious
,
and
civill
actions
.
Thirdly
,
if
a
man
in
authority
be
sinfull
,
all
vnder
him
will
be
infected
.
Sin
is
most
filthy
,
compared
to
the
most
vile
things
that
can
be
named
;
to
menstruous
ragges
,
the
vomite
of
doggs
,
&c.
Nay
not
any
dirt
,
or
filthy
thing
can
staine
a
Sunne-beame
,
but
sin
staines
a
more
glorious
creature
,
which
is
the
soule
of
man
.
Sin
is
of
that
hellish
nature
,
that
it
drawes
out
&
takes
in
,
to
it selfe
the
wrath
of
God
.
Sin
is
full
of
cursed
consequences
.
Privatiue
.
Positiue
.
Privatiue
,
losse
of
Gods
favour
;
the
blood
of
Christ
;
the
guard
of
Angels
;
peace
of
conscience
,
&c.
Positiue
it
brings
all
misery
spirituall
;
hardnesse
of
heart
,
blindnesse
of
minde
,
horrour
of
conscience
,
despaire
,
&c.
with
all
temporall
losses
and
crosses
here
,
and
hereafter
eternall
torments
of
soule
and
body
.
Helpe
.
2
God
is
provoked
with
it
.
Each
sinne
is
the
only
object
of
Gods
infinite
hatred
.
His
loue
is
diversified
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
sin
is
against
the
Majesty
of
that
dreadfull
Lord
of
Heaven
and
earth
,
who
can
turne
all
things
into
hell
,
nay
heaven
&
hell
into
nothing
by
his
word
.
Now
against
this
God
thou
sinnest
,
&
what
art
thou
,
but
dust
and
ashes
,
a
bagge
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
?
Every
sin
strikes
at
the
glory
of
Gods
pure
eye
.
Sin
is
that
which
killed
his
Sonne
;
the
least
sinne
could
not
be
pardoned
but
by
Christs
carrying
his
heart
blood
to
his
Father
,
and
offering
it
for
sinne
.
Each
sinne
is
an
offence
to
all
his
mercies
.
This
aggravated
the
sinne
vpon
Eli
,
1.
Sam.
2.29
.
David
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
sins
in
the
time
of
the
Gospell
?
Helpe
.
3
Consider
how
thou
art
hurt
by
it
:
for
Each
sin
kills
thy
soule
which
it
better
then
the
world
.
Mat.
16.29
.
Each
sinne
,
bring
it
never
soe
much
pleasure
in
the
committing
,
leaues
a
threefold
sting
:
-
Naturall
.
-
Temporall
.
-
Immortall
.
Naturall
,
after
worldly
pleasure
comes
melancholly
:
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
joyes
are
swallowed
vp
in
sorrowes
bottomlesse
gulfe
.
Temporall
:
ther
's
labour
in
getting
,
care
in
keeping
,
and
sorrow
in
parting
with
worldly
goods
.
Immortall
:
God
will
call
thee
to
judgment
for
it
.
Each
sin
robbes
thee
of
abundance
of
comfort
.
What
a
vast
difference
do
we
see
in
conquering
sin
,
and
being
conquered
by
sinne
?
as
for
instance
in
Ioseph
and
David
.
the
one
raised
after
his
conquest
to
much
honour
;
the
other
,
scarce
enjoyed
one
good
day
after
hee
was
conquered
;
but
as
Ezekias
,
walked
heavily
in
the
bitternesse
of
his
soule
all
his
dayes
.
As
some
Divines
haue
said
of
Guliacius
and
Spira
,
the
one
is
honour'd
in
Calvins
Epistles
for
ever
:
the
other
after
his
backsliding
liued
a
while
in
exquisite
horror
,
and
after
dyed
in
despaire
.
Thy
owne
conscience
will
accuse
thee
one
day
for
every
sinne
,
though
now
it
seemes
hid
to
thee
;
and
thy
conscience
is
more
then
a
thousand
witnesses
,
therefore
thou
wilt
certainely
be
overthrowne
.
For
the
sins
which
peradventure
thou
liuest
now
in
,
and
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
?
Eight
.
Act.
Get
a
strong
reasoning
in
thy
minde
against
sinne
:
as
first
,
these
three
grand
reasons
.
Reas.
1
The
horrour
of
hell
;
Therefore
Christians
wrong
themselues
,
that
will
not
vse
this
as
a
motiue
;
the
vnquenchable
wrath
of
God
shall
feede
vpon
thy
soule
if
thou
committest
this
sinne
.
Reas.
2
The
joyes
of
heaven
;
I
shall
dwell
with
God
for
ever
,
if
beleeving
,
I
make
conscience
of
every
sin
,
as
an
evidence
and
fruit
of
saving
faith
.
Reas.
3
And
aboue
all
,
the
glory
of
God
:
if
Gods
glory
and
the
damnation
of
our
soules
were
in
a
ballance
,
his
glory
should
preponderate
and
prevaile
,
while
wee
preferre
Gods
glory
aboue
our
owne
salvation
;
Moses
and
Paul
would
haue
done
that
,
although
wee
cannot
seeke
it
,
but
in
and
by
our
salvation
,
as
the
meanes
is
subordinate
to
the
end
.
Secondly
,
from
every
line
in
Gods
booke
:
His
attributes
,
as
-
1
His
Iustice
.
-
2
His
mercy
.
His
Iustice
to
terrifie
sinners
.
His
mercy
to
allure
vs
to
him
.
His
Iudgements
.
His
Promises
.
Thirdly
,
from
logicall
places
:
(
See
Rogers
on
meditations
,
and
in
each
particular
consider
of
thy
sinne
.
)
-
As
1
The
definition
.
-
As
2
The
division
.
-
As
3
The
causes
.
-
As
4
The
effects
.
-
As
5
The
subject
.
-
As
6
The
adjunct
.
-
As
7
The
comparison
.
-
As
8
The
contrary
.
Fourthly
,
from
places
of
Scripture
.
From
examples
in
Scripture
:
How
shall
I
do
this
,
&
so
sin
against
God
?
saith
Ioseph
.
From
your
former
estate
;
Yee
were
darknesse
,
but
now
yee
are
light
&c.
From
the
end
of
all
things
,
Seeing
all
things
must
be
dissolved
,
what
manner
of
men
ought
wee
to
be
?
Fiftly
,
from
thy selfe
.
Thy
soule
is
immortall
,
all
the
Devils
in
hell
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
thus
,
Sinne
brought
mee
from
the
bosome
of
my
Father
to
dye
for
it
.
Seaventhly
,
from
the
incomprehensible
excellencie
of
God
,
against
whom
thou
sinnest
.
Ninth
Act.
Get
a
sincere
opposition
in
thy
life
to
sinne
.
Helpes
thereto
.
Helpe
.
1
When
any
bait
of
Sathan
,
or
old
companions
would
allure
thee
to
sin
,
take
this
dilemma
:
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
.
Helpe
.
2
Consider
thy
madnesse
,
which
layest
most
desperately
in
one
scale
of
the
ballance
heaven
,
the
favour
of
God
,
the
blood
of
Christ
,
and
thine
owne
soule
in
the
other
,
a
little
dung
,
pelfe
,
base
lust
&c.
And
lettest
this
oversway
,
which
bringeth
rottennesse
to
thy
bones
,
perhaps
losse
of
thy
good
name
&c.
Helpe
.
3
And
that
thou
maist
yet
be
further
armed
to
withstand
the
assaults
of
thy
three
grand
enemies
,
the
world
,
the
flesh
,
and
the
devill
,
which
dayly
seeke
the
destruction
of
thy
soule
:
consider
these
twelue
Antidotes
:
Consider
the
shortnes
of
the
pleasure
of
sin
,
with
the
length
of
the
punishment
,
the
one
for
a
moment
,
the
other
everlasting
.
Consider
the
companions
of
sinne
:
for
one
sinne
never
goes
alone
,
but
being
once
entertained
,
it
sets
all
the
faculties
of
the
soule
also
in
a
combustion
;
and
so
procures
a
spirituall
judgement
,
if
not
temporall
,
vpon
estate
and
person
.
Consider
,
thy
life
is
but
a
span
,
a
breath
,
a
blast
soone
gone
:
now
if
wee
had
all
the
pleasure
in
the
world
,
yet
being
so
soone
to
loose
it
,
it
's
not
worth
esteeming
.
Consider
,
sin
causeth
vs
to
lose
a
greater
good
than
that
can
be
,
as
the
favour
of
God
,
interest
in
Christ
,
guard
of
Angels
,
right
to
the
creatures
&c.
Consider
the
vncertainty
of
repentance
;
thou
maist
never
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
be
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
heaven
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
mercies
,
which
God
hath
sent
to
thee
,
as
to
soule
,
body
,
good
name
,
estate
,
&
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
sin
,
and
wilt
thou
soe
easily
be
drawne
to
it
,
or
rather
runne
to
it
?
Anselme
sayd
,
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
wild
horses
.
Wee
haue
as
precious
meanes
as
they
,
and
if
our
hearts
were
as
good
wee
should
haue
the
like
affections
.
Tenth
Act.
Get
a
sincere
grieving
that
thou
canst
do
these
things
no
better
,
as
considering
,
Though
thou
hadst
a
thousand
eyes
,
and
could
weepe
them
all
out
and
shed
rivers
of
teares
,
and
a
thousand
hearts
to
burst
;
yet
all
were
not
sufficient
for
the
least
sinne
or
vanity
,
either
of
the
eye
or
heart
:
How
much
more
when
our
hearts
are
barren
and
dry
,
had
wee
neede
to
labour
for
this
sorrow
?
Considering
when
thou
hast
made
the
best
praier
,
or
watched
most
diligently
over
thy selfe
,
for
the
right
and
due
sanctification
of
the
Sabbaoth
,
or
spent
thy selfe
in
a
day
of
humiliation
;
thou
hadst
neede
to
crye
and
burst
thy
heart
againe
for
the
imperfections
and
failings
thereof
.
In
this
sorrow
,
that
thou
canst
performe
good
duties
no
better
.
Weaue
vp
the
web
,
what
s
lacking
in
any
of
the
rest
,
here
make
it
vp
;
and
to
incourage
thee
,
thou
hast
this
happinesse
joyned
with
it
,
that
though
thy
griefe
be
small
,
if
it
be
true
,
to
cause
thee
to
sell
all
:
that
is
,
to
part
from
every
sinne
for
Christ
,
and
take
him
as
a
husband
and
a
Lord
,
both
for
protection
,
and
government
?
Then
by
the
consent
of
all
Divines
it
it
godly
sorrow
,
and
certainly
accepted
in
Christ
.
⁂
FINIS
.