Spira's
Despair
Revived
.
Being
A
Narration
OF
The
Horror
and
Despair
OF
Some
late
Sinners
under
the
Appprehensions
of
Death
and
Judgment
.
Wherein
are
such
Unquestionable
Examples
produc'd
,
and
such
Matters
laid
down
,
and
proved
,
as
may
stop
the
Mouths
of
the
Atheistical
Scoffers
and
Mockers
.
By
Thomas
Iames
,
Minister
of
the
Gospel
at
Ashford
in
Kent
.
Licensed
June
16.
1694.
E.
C.
London
,
Printed
for
R.
Baldwin
,
at
the
Oxford
Arms
in
Warwick-Lane
,
1694.
To
the
right
Honourable
Philip
Lord
Wharton
▪
My
Lord
,
TO
make
a
Dedication
of
this
small
peice
to
your
Honour
,
would
be
a
Crime
,
if
there
were
not
such
reasons
as
might
not
only
excuse
,
but
even
command
the
same
from
me
.
The
very
least
is
Gratitude
,
which
obliges
me
to
acknowledg
your
singular
kindness
and
favour
,
being
setled
once
in
a
Family
having
a
branch
sprung
out
of
your
Noble
Stock
;
and
much
the
same
overtures
having
been
since
made
towards
such
another
imployment
;
But
tho
these
considerations
are
too
great
to
be
passed
by
in
silence
,
yet
there
is
an
higher
reason
which
enforces
me
to
this
undertaking
;
't
is
your
Lordships
Piety
,
that
sincere
,
solid
and
exemplary
Piety
,
which
is
to
be
seen
in
you
.
't
is
your
owning
and
maintaining
Religion
in
your
Principles
and
Practice
,
publickly
and
privately
approving
your self
to
be
a
Disciple
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
;
having
learnt
that
lesson
of
the
Apostle
,
to
be
stedfast
,
unmovable
,
always
abounding
in
the
Work
of
the
Lord
,
as
knowing
that
your
labour
is
not
in
vain
in
the
Lord
.
Pardon
me
,
my
Lord
,
that
I
prefix
your
name
,
it
being
so
suitable
,
it
being
that
of
a
sound
Believer
,
a
sincere
Christian
,
and
withal
so
high
and
Noble
;
one
who
not
only
believes
what
Atheists
deny
,
and
expects
what
they
deny
,
but
adorns
the
Profession
he
makes
of
the
blessed
Gospel
,
and
so
confounds
them
:
That
your
Honour
is
not
ashamed
of
the
Gospel
,
is
most
evident
,
and
I
am
bold
to
think
that
your
Lordship
will
not
be
offended
with
what
is
here
offered
to
you
,
because
't
is
Written
for
a
defence
of
the
same
:
The
Lord
God
Almighty
,
before
whom
you
walk
,
reward
you
,
may
his
blessings
be
upon
your
head
,
and
may
your
Posterity
share
in
your
Piety
,
and
partake
of
the
same
Mercies
of
the
ever
blessed
God
,
both
in
this
World
,
and
for
ever
,
so
Prays
(
my
Lord
)
Your
Lordships
very
humble
and
obliged
Servant
.
Thomas
James
.
Ashford
,
June
7.
1694.
THE
PREFACE
.
't
is
common
to
put
a
Title
to
Treatises
,
and
not
to
perform
what
is
promised
thereby
;
to
raise
the
expectation
of
the
Reader
very
high
,
and
then
to
bring
him
down
again
with
disappointment
and
vexation
;
to
decoy
the
Reader
with
specious
pretences
,
drawing
a
fine
Front
,
and
having
nothing
within
worth
looking
into
;
the
first
and
after
pages
holding
no
proportion
.
Who
almost
hath
not
been
thus
met
with
?
't
is
no
presumption
to
think
that
many
will
be
under
such
a
jealousy
,
when
they
read
the
Name
of
Spira
set
before
this
piece
,
doubting
much
whether
that
can
be
made
good
which
is
pretended
,
especially
this
bringing
to
mind
the
Second
Spira
may
fill
men
with
the
greater
unbelief
.
For
,
was
ever
any
thing
more
plausible
in
its
time
,
and
afterwards
so
despised
,
rejected
,
and
trampled
under
foot
?
Was
ever
any
thing
more
taking
,
spreading
and
diffusing
it self
throughout
the
whole
Kingdom
,
so
generally
received
,
caught
for
,
embraced
and
entertained
?
Oh!
what
a
light
did
the
Second
Spira
give
?
and
yet
at
last
Went
out
in
a
snuff
,
and
proved
a
meer
Meteor
,
scorn
and
derision
.
Verily
he
had
need
to
be
well
provided
and
arm'd
,
that
comes
forth
again
in
this
Cause
;
Arm'd
with
Truth
,
and
well
provided
on
all
hands
,
seeing
he
goes
out
at
such
great
disadvantage
.
But
yet
,
Why
should
the
folly
,
or
weakness
,
or
wickedness
of
some
make
others
afraid
and
negligent
of
their
Duty
?
Why
should
Truth
suffer
for
Error
and
Imposture
?
't
is
true
,
it
will
be
hard
to
make
men
believe
the
real
truth
,
when
they
have
been
trickt
,
and
caught
with
falshood
;
But
still
truth
will
and
must
prevail
:
Tho
a
man
take
base
and
counterfeit
Mony
many
times
,
yet
shall
be
refuse
therefore
that
which
is
good
ever
after
?
Nay
rather
he
will
desire
it
,
for
as
much
as
he
stands
the
more
in
need
thereof
.
The
Antifices
of
wicked
men
will
not
always
attain
their
end
,
to
hinder
the
Truth
,
and
keep
back
its
knowledg
:
Truth
may
be
eclips'd
for
a
while
,
but
it
will
shine
more
brightly
afterward
.
Spira's
Despair
is
reviv'd
almost
every
day
,
and
it
ariseth
from
one
and
the
same
ground
still
,
the
guilt
of
Sin
,
and
the
apprehensions
of
the
wrath
of
the
Eternal
God
.
Let
Atheists
mock
and
scoff
their
fill
,
examples
of
this
kind
are
very
many
,
and
their
evidence
most
clear
,
they
speak
home
to
the
purpose
,
and
shall
perform
that
for
which
they
are
appointed
:
There
needs
no
Pious
Fraud
,
nor
Officious
Lies
to
help
Religion
,
and
uphold
the
Truth
:
Every
age
,
and
every
quarter
hath
some
Monument
or
another
set
up
,
with
this
kind
of
Inscription
,
Look
upon
me
,
and
learn
to
fear
God
;
take
warning
by
my
Torments
and
Despair
,
least
your
unbelief
and
profaneness
bring
down
the
same
Vengeance
on
your
Heads
:
There
are
Pillars
of
Salt
set
up
every
where
for
our
remembrance
:
The
fire
of
Hell
hath
kindled
upon
multitudes
of
sinners
,
and
the
worm
that
never
dies
does
begin
to
gnaw
their
Consciences
,
even
while
they
are
on
this
side
the
Grave
.
Do
any
seek
a
proof
of
this
?
What
mean
those
Self-Murders
which
are
committed
so
frequently
!
This
is
so
common
that
few
regard
it
,
and
they
are
very
few
that
examin
the
Case
and
enquire
into
it
:
But
whence
come
they
?
How
should
Men
hate
their
own
Life
,
and
have
an
Heart
to
perpetrate
such
a
Villany
to
Destroy
that
which
is
the
dearest
thing
in
all
the
World
unto
them
?
Self-murder
!
what
an
unnatural
wickedness
?
Thousands
are
so
desperate
as
for
the
enjoyment
of
this
present
Life
,
tho
so
short
and
uncertain
,
to
venture
an
eternity
to
come
;
for
a
few
Months
of
sinful
Pleasure
,
they
will
hazard
the
loss
of
an
immortal
Soul
;
so
sweet
is
Life
,
such
a
darling
!
But
these
wretches
lay
violent
hands
upon
themselves
,
and
cast
away
this
Pearl
of
Price
,
so
unspeakably
pretious
,
and
had
by
all
men
in
Estimation
above
the
whole
World
.
Let
Atheists
and
Scoffers
say
what
they
can
against
the
Terrours
of
the
Lord
,
and
the
anguish
that
ariseth
from
the
horrours
of
Conscience
,
this
abundantly
proves
it
:
When
prophane
and
wicked
Creatures
thus
destroy
their
lives
,
it
is
evident
that
they
are
under
the
sense
of
the
wrath
of
the
Almighty
,
that
their
Consciences
are
wounded
deeply
,
that
the
Arrows
of
the
Lord
stickfast
in
them
,
which
they
are
not
able
to
bear
the
smart
and
anguish
of
,
and
therefore
would
,
if
possible
,
put
an
end
to
their
very
being
.
I
do
not
say
,
that
all
that
do
thus
are
moved
by
this
occasion
,
but
ordinarily
so
it
is
;
and
't
is
no
hard
thing
to
discern
when
it
proceeds
from
such
grounds
of
Horrour
and
Despair
:
Who
doubts
of
it
,
whether
Judas
did
Hang
himself
out
of
guilt
and
horrour
?
when
they
are
the
ungodly
,
and
the
greatest
sinners
who
prove
such
Felo-de
se's
,
there
is
no
room
fr
hesitation
:
When
they
are
the
intolerably
proud
,
covetous
,
envious
,
filthy
and
unclean
,
Sabbath
breakers
,
and
such
whose
hearts
Satan
hath
filled
with
wickedness
;
persons
who
have
highly
offended
God
,
and
lived
in
contempt
of
his
Laws
;
when
such
can
find
no
peace
in
their
troubles
,
no
hope
;
what
can
any
man
think
of
their
Self-murders
,
but
that
they
arise
from
this
Despair
?
Were
this
matter
well
considered
,
there
might
be
an
excellent
Argument
raised
out
of
it
,
and
managed
to
the
advantage
of
Religion
,
against
those
who
would
fain
put
off
the
man
,
and
persuade
themselves
there
is
no
God
,
at
least
that
he
is
not
such
a
God
as
the
holy
Scriptures
reveal
him
to
be
,
not
Omniscient
,
and
one
that
will
reward
every
one
according
to
their
ways
and
works
;
who
hath
a
witness
within
every
man
,
and
whose
judgments
are
every
where
abroad
in
the
world
,
declaring
his
Justice
,
and
what
shall
certainly
come
to
pass
hereafter
.
This
is
a
sort
of
proof
near
of
kin
to
what
I
shall
produce
,
and
therefore
I
do
but
touch
upon
it
in
this
place
,
making
way
to
matters
more
plain
and
cogent
,
to
examples
which
will
irrefragably
evidence
the
Truth
in
hand
(
sc
.
)
that
sinners
are
by
their
wicked
ways
reduced
to
horrour
and
despair
,
such
as
doth
even
demonstrate
God
to
be
,
and
also
to
be
an
avenger
of
the
ungodly
:
Some
have
been
made
sick
of
sin
in
this
life
,
and
have
confest
openly
,
freely
and
plentifully
to
the
Glory
of
God
,
and
this
they
have
done
,
especially
who
have
laid
violent
hands
upon
themselves
,
and
have
been
very
wonderfully
preserv'd
.
Now
out
of
many
I
will
quote
one
example
of
this
kind
in
the
first
place
,
making
such
observations
and
improvements
as
naturally
flow
from
the
same
;
a
late
Example
of
my
own
personal
knowledg
.
§
I.
IN
the
year
1689.
Octob
.
27.
about
5
of
the
Clock
in
the
Evening
one
R.
L.
cut
his
own
throat
,
with
an
intention
of
Self-murder
.
It
was
done
but
a
few
doors
from
the
place
of
my
abode
;
so
that
the
Report
and
Outcry
reached
me
in
a
few
minutes
:
The
man
had
always
been
a
stranger
to
me
;
so
that
I
know
not
that
I
had
ever
seen
his
Face
;
however
,
I
had
no
manner
of
acquaintance
with
him
;
but
being
moved
with
the
relation
of
such
a
Tragedy
,
I
was
desirous
to
come
into
the
presence
of
the
poor
wretch
,
and
inform
my self
of
what
had
past
,
to
learn
the
true
grounds
of
such
a
piece
of
Wickedness
,
and
to
observe
his
Carriage
and
Behaviour
,
as
well
as
to
be
ready
to
yield
any
Ministerial
help
,
as
there
should
be
Opportunity
.
It
was
but
a
little
while
e're
I
prevail'd
with
a
Gentleman
,
who
had
sufficient
Knowledge
of
him
,
to
introduce
me
.
Being
come
to
the
Chamber
where
he
had
done
this
horrid
Fact
,
which
was
now
thronged
with
Spectators
,
my
Friend
took
to
one
side
of
the
Bed
,
and
my self
to
the
other
;
His
Wound
was
drest
by
the
Chyrurgeon
,
being
very
large
and
deep
;
the
Wind
Pipe
was
cut
about
half
through
;
so
that
all
about
him
concluded
he
was
past
recovery
,
and
so
he
judged
of
himself
,
tho
I
really
thought
otherwise
,
and
told
my
thoughts
to
some
that
night
;
by
his
freeness
of
Speech
,
and
other
circumstances
,
having
Reason
to
hope
that
the
Chyrurgeon
would
perform
his
part
so
well
as
to
make
a
Cure
,
which
to
his
praise
he
did
.
The
Case
being
thus
,
I
presently
applied
my self
to
him
,
asking
,
What
made
him
to
commit
such
a
Wickedness
as
to
go
about
to
murder
himself
?
At
my
first
speaking
he
gave
little
heed
;
but
asking
him
again
to
the
same
effect
,
immediately
he
turned
himself
about
to
me
,
and
shew'd
a
wonderful
willingness
to
fall
into
discourse
.
To
me
it
seem'd
,
that
so
soon
as
ever
he
recollected
who
I
was
,
he
was
glad
of
my
Company
.
I
still
put
the
same
Question
;
and
now
he
replied
,
casting
it
upon
the
Devil
;
declaring
how
he
was
perpetually
tempted
to
commit
somewhat
of
this
kind
.
I
then
demanded
,
how
the
Devil
should
prevail
so
far
as
this
upon
him
,
and
carry
him
away
so
that
he
could
dare
to
destroy
his
own
life
?
Then
he
began
to
lay
open
,
and
spread
before
me
his
past
Life
;
and
truly
he
delivered
himself
so
freely
,
distinctly
and
openly
,
the
Room
all
the
while
being
full
of
company
(
too
many
of
them
such
as
had
been
partakers
with
him
in
some
,
at
least
,
of
his
Wickednesses
)
that
it
was
beyond
what
I
could
have
expected
.
He
told
me
how
he
had
left
his
Trade
,
being
by
profession
a
Sadler
at
Rochester
,
being
debauch'd
before
,
but
then
waxing
much
worse
and
worse
;
he
bemoaned
his
lewd
Company
keeping
,
whereby
he
was
hardened
every
day
more
than
other
;
especially
the
sin
of
Sabbath-breaking
he
confess'd
,
and
bewailed
above
all
the
rest
,
having
of
late
years
seldom
or
never
attended
upon
the
publick
Worship
of
God
.
At
the
first
,
said
he
,
I
spent
indeed
good
part
of
my
time
in
reading
privately
at
home
;
but
then
I
fell
off
from
that
also
,
and
frequented
Ale-houses
,
and
such
like
places
on
that
day
,
spending
the
Sabbath
in
drinking
,
revelling
,
&c.
While
he
was
relating
these
things
,
one
came
in
,
who
had
been
an
Old
Companion
,
and
too
much
conversant
with
him
in
those
ways
:
He
seeing
him
standing
at
the
Beds
Feet
,
cryed
out
,
Oh
—
have
a
care
,
beware
;
you
see
what
those
wicked
courses
have
brought
me
to
,
especially
the
sin
of
Sabbath-breaking
.
These
words
he
uttered
not
without
warmth
and
vehemency
.
After
such
a
Narration
as
this
made
to
me
,
and
some
other
discourses
between
us
,
he
requested
me
to
pray
with
him
;
particularly
he
desired
,
and
directed
me
to
pray
for
a
little
longer
time
to
live
,
that
he
might
be
spared
but
to
the
morning
▪
One
Night
▪
but
One
Night
!
that
it
would
please
God
to
grant
him
but
that
Petition
,
that
he
might
have
a
short
time
to
repent
,
confess
his
sins
,
and
call
upon
the
Lord
for
forgiveness
and
mercy
.
I
reply'd
,
That
it
was
not
a
thing
he
could
expect
;
how
could
he
think
God
should
be
so
gracious
to
spare
his
Life
when
he
had
attempted
so
wickedly
to
take
it
away
?
Why
should
he
look
for
this
Favour
at
God's
hands
,
seeing
he
had
left
him
so
long
,
and
most
desperately
cast
himself
away
,
committing
Self-Murder
!
How
could
he
think
God
would
hear
his
Cry
!
It
was
a
time
to
look
after
his
Soul
,
and
to
humble
himself
.
Oh
but
,
saith
he
,
the
Malefectors
many
times
have
a
Repreive
;
they
are
not
presently
executed
after
Sentence
is
past
;
and
will
not
God
spare
me
a
few
hours
,
only
to
the
morning
?
Oh!
may
not
this
be
,
that
I
may
have
some
space
for
repentance
,
and
to
seek
pardon
of
my
sins
.
For
my
own
part
,
as
I
hinted
before
,
I
verily
thought
he
might
he
recovered
,
and
his
deadly
wound
healed
,
calling
to
mind
Instances
of
a
like
nature
,
when
the
Case
had
been
more
desperate
,
and
yet
a
Cure
wrought
.
But
thus
I
discoursed
to
bring
him
to
deep
humiliation
,
and
godly
sorrow
,
and
earnest
supplication
to
the
Lord
for
grace
and
mercy
.
Then
he
called
for
his
Bible
,
and
therein
he
shewed
me
several
Portions
of
Scripture
,
which
he
had
formerly
taken
notice
of
,
and
received
some
Convictions
from
;
underneath
these
he
had
drawn
black
lines
,
and
marked
with
a
Pen
,
and
truly
they
were
very
many
.
At
this
I
wondred
a
little
,
finding
that
he
had
been
sometime
no
negligent
Reader
of
the
Word
of
God
.
We
turned
to
the
51st
Psal
.
and
other
Portions
suitable
to
his
condition
.
We
read
and
searcht
into
them
,
and
I
still
gave
him
all
the
light
and
help
I
could
possible
.
Then
again
he
desired
me
to
pray
with
him
,
which
I
did
,
there
being
a
very
mixt
Company
in
the
Room
,
some
of
them
too
well
acquainted
with
him
in
the
days
of
his
Impiety
.
After
Prayer
was
ended
,
and
some
little
discourse
,
I
took
my
leave
,
but
could
hardly
get
leave
from
him
to
depart
,
he
holding
me
by
the
hand
,
and
desiring
my
help
;
But
it
grew
late
in
the
night
,
and
I
was
unwilling
to
hold
him
discoursing
any
longer
,
considering
the
great
effusion
of
blood
,
and
other
circumstances
,
whereby
his
spirits
must
needs
be
exhausted
,
and
much
weakness
follow
,
which
requireth
rest
:
So
I
left
him
,
directing
him
spiritually
,
according
to
the
ability
God
had
given
me
;
particularly
advizing
him
not
to
yield
himself
up
to
Sathan's
temptations
,
nor
hearken
to
any
of
his
suggestions
,
or
be
affrighted
at
them
,
however
he
was
disturbed
,
but
to
compose
himself
,
and
wait
upon
God
,
and
see
if
he
would
not
be
more
merciful
to
him
than
he
expected
,
even
with
respect
to
this
present
life
:
But
I
could
not
thus
part
with
him
for
that
night
,
but
about
an
hour
or
two
after
I
returned
,
enquiring
of
the
watchers
,
of
his
state
;
I
found
his
mind
had
been
much
disturbed
,
he
had
talked
to
them
of
very
frightful
apparitions
;
and
upon
my
dealing
more
considerately
with
him
,
he
was
not
presently
brought
off
from
the
same
,
but
did
seriously
own
to
me
that
there
were
apparitions
of
Devils
,
tempting
him
,
and
terrifying
him
:
I
laboured
to
calm
his
tumultuous
mind
,
and
applied
my self
to
him
much
as
before
,
endeavouring
to
bring
him
to
a
sense
of
his
sin
,
not
only
in
this
horrid
fact
,
but
in
his
life
past
,
which
had
led
him
on
to
this
wickedness
,
hardning
his
heart
,
and
giving
Sathan
such
an
admission
,
and
so
great
advantage
against
him
;
discoursing
of
the
justice
of
God
,
and
also
of
the
redemption
through
Christ
,
and
the
riches
of
divine
grace
to
save
penitent
sinners
,
even
the
chiefest
of
them
,
upon
their
true
and
unfeigned
faith
in
the
Son
of
God
.
In
all
this
he
was
very
attentive
,
taking
in
all
that
was
said
with
great
greediness
and
intention
of
soul
,
expressing
wonderful
repentance
,
and
crying
mightily
to
God
for
mercy
;
still
he
was
exceeding
importunate
that
he
might
live
but
a
little
while
to
perform
that
great
work
of
preparing
for
an
entrance
into
eternity
;
But
if
it
pleased
God
to
spare
his
life
,
O
then
how
gladly
should
he
manifest
and
declare
his
repentance
to
all
the
world
,
and
what
manner
of
person
would
he
be
?
I
still
continued
to
visit
him
,
next
day
,
and
I
think
some
few
days
after
till
he
was
out
of
danger
,
and
began
to
recover
his
former
state
of
health
.
This
is
the
summ
of
what
I
am
able
to
recollect
of
that
black
Tragedy
;
and
indeed
it
is
so
long
since
,
that
I
cannot
be
so
particular
as
I
would
:
Little
did
I
think
then
of
making
such
use
of
this
Example
.
But
as
to
the
matters
of
any
importance
,
I
dare
appeal
to
the
omnipotent
God
,
it
is
the
Truth
;
yea
,
the
person
is
now
living
at
this
time
of
writing
,
who
is
the
Subject
of
this
Relation
;
and
it
was
all
said
and
done
openly
.
Now
I
will
make
some
Remarks
,
or
Animadversions
upon
the
whole
,
to
prosecute
my
great
and
only
design
in
writing
after
this
kind
and
manner
.
1.
How
came
this
Felo-de-se
(
for
such
he
was
to
the
purpose
of
his
Heart
)
to
fall
under
such
horrour
immediately
upon
the
committing
of
this
wickedness
?
If
there
be
no
God
,
no
Judgment
to
come
,
but
Religion
be
a
Publick
Cheat
,
set
on
foot
only
for
Private
ends
;
then
whence
was
it
that
this
poor
creature
who
had
been
hardning
himself
so
long
in
sin
,
and
now
struck
this
blow
,
should
immediately
recoil
,
and
be
startled
at
the
thoughts
of
Death
?
surely
,
upon
the
grounds
the
Atheists
go
,
now
was
a
time
for
him
to
have
Triumphed
,
as
having
accomplished
his
desire
,
and
put
an
end
to
his
miserable
Life
.
He
had
been
long
weary
of
Living
,
and
now
he
had
desperately
extinguish'd
the
Light
of
Life
;
how
came
he
then
to
repent
of
what
he
had
done
,
and
to
have
such
a
dread
of
the
darkness
he
thought
to
hide
himself
in
?
Alas
!
't
is
evident
there
was
a
Conscience
striving
and
roused
out
of
its
deep
sleep
,
which
Revealed
the
wrath
of
God
and
his
righteous
Judgments
.
2.
Whence
came
this
sudden
change
and
alteration
?
Such
fear
and
horrour
and
amazement
in
a
few
Moments
?
Upon
speaking
a
few
words
,
and
debating
the
matter
calmly
,
the
man
became
quite
another
than
just
before
;
whence
should
this
proceed
?
Was
there
not
(
{αβγδ}
)
something
Divine
in
this
sudden
alteration
?
Indeed
Atheists
may
brave
it
out
while
they
are
living
,
and
in
their
strength
and
heat
of
Blood
;
but
when
it
comes
to
Death
,
and
they
have
the
Sentence
thereof
past
within
themselves
,
and
a
fearful
expectation
of
the
Righteous
Judgment
of
the
great
God
,
then
their
Hearts
must
needs
fail
them
;
they
say
indeed
it
shall
not
,
but
they
promise
more
than
they
ordinarily
perform
:
We
see
the
contrary
daily
,
even
in
those
who
were
no
ways
behind
them
,
who
speak
so
presumptuously
:
And
what
if
they
die
desperately
?
This
is
no
Argument
;
a
Mad-man
may
throw
himself
into
the
Fire
or
Water
,
but
who
doth
not
know
he
takes
the
way
to
be
burnt
or
drowned
?
A
desperate
Death
of
an
Atheistical
Wretch
disproves
not
a
Judgment
to
come
;
and
that
Desperation
is
the
fairest
side
of
their
Exit
;
for
Peace
,
and
Comfort
,
and
Hope
they
have
none
.
3.
Whence
came
those
frightful
Apparitions
of
Devils
,
or
wicked
Spirits
,
distracting
his
Mind
,
and
tormenting
him
now
more
than
ever
?
If
this
proceeded
only
from
a
Natural
Cause
,
he
must
be
very
wise
that
can
assign
it
;
The
loss
of
Blood
could
not
in
the
least
dispose
to
it
;
but
contrariwise
,
it
must
naturally
tend
to
Dizziness
,
and
a
Lethargick
Frame
.
The
Body
was
not
distempered
with
a
Fever
before
,
only
the
restlesness
of
the
Mind
might
somewhat
affect
it
;
but
all
on
a
sudden
the
Man
was
full
of
Terror
and
affrighted
with
Visions
and
Spectrums
:
He
had
horror
in
his
looks
;
the
Soul
did
as
it
were
shew
it self
through
the
Windows
,
in
a
ghastly
manner
,
frighted
,
and
full
of
confusion
.
How
many
thousands
have
suffered
worse
than
all
this
in
their
bodies
,
and
discovered
no
such
fear
or
terror
,
talked
of
no
such
dreadful
Apparitions
?
To
say
,
that
this
was
only
Fancy
and
Imagination
,
or
a
fit
of
Melancholy
or
Frenzy
,
would
be
very
trifling
;
For
there
was
no
bodily
distemper
that
did
necessarily
dispose
to
such
things
.
Was
it
ever
known
,
that
upon
such
a
Wound
,
or
the
stopping
of
the
flux
of
Blood
,
by
the
Chyrurgeon
,
Men
fell
immediately
into
fear
,
and
terror
,
and
confusion
,
and
talking
of
being
tempted
and
tormented
by
the
Devil
?
Ask
the
Chyrurgeons
concerning
all
the
Insections
,
Amputations
or
Cauteries
,
they
make
,
where
the
pain
is
unquestionably
very
great
many
times
,
and
the
Case
every
way
more
terrible
,
if
nothing
but
what
is
natural
be
considered
;
ask
them
,
I
say
,
if
ever
they
found
their
Patients
in
such
a
Temper
.
No
,
here
was
Guilt
,
a
wounded
Conscience
,
and
Satan
,
like
a
Lion
,
roaring
upon
his
prey
;
and
those
infernal
Vultures
flocking
together
about
the
same
to
devour
it
.
But
,
4.
Is
this
any
new
thing
,
and
not
the
sad
Experience
of
all
Ages
,
in
innumerable
Examples
of
like
nature
?
Doth
not
God
threaten
sinners
,
and
do
not
his
Judgments
sometimes
overtake
them
thus
?
How
many
Sabbath-breakers
and
Scoffers
have
been
brought
to
such
a
confession
,
and
struck
with
dread
and
horror
at
the
end
of
their
Lives
?
Those
of
them
that
have
died
natural
deaths
,
have
been
oft
under
the
same
Convulsions
and
Agonies
of
Soul
,
as
well
as
those
that
died
violent
deaths
;
there
hath
been
no
difference
;
so
certain
it
is
that
a
guilty
conscience
hath
been
the
cause
of
such
fearful
ends
,
and
not
any
unaccountable
disorder
of
body
.
§
II
.
The
former
Instance
may
,
and
doth
sufficiently
evince
this
,
That
man
is
subject
to
the
Dominion
of
God
,
not
only
as
a
Creature
,
but
as
a
Creature
endued
with
reason
and
understanding
,
having
a
conscience
which
binds
him
over
to
the
judgment
of
the
eternal
God
.
It
was
not
slavish
fear
,
and
crafty
insinuations
of
designing
men
,
that
brought
the
first
Notion
of
God
into
the
world
;
but
God
himself
put
this
Fear
into
man's
heart
;
so
that
whenever
he
sins
willfully
,
and
contumeliously
,
he
is
consigned
over
to
the
Judgment
,
and
bound
in
Chains
of
Darkness
and
Horror
against
the
Judgment
of
the
last
Day
.
The
following
Example
will
make
this
matter
yet
more
clear
and
evident
,
and
answer
the
Title
fully
,
being
a
Case
of
downright
Despair
,
under
a
sense
of
the
Wrath
of
the
Almighty
,
without
being
able
to
take
the
least
comfort
.
't
is
thus
,
Being
called
to
a
poor
Woman
in
the
Neighbourhood
,
one
M.
T.
who
was
very
sick
and
weak
in
body
,
and
drawing
nigh
to
her
End
,
her
Husband
importuned
me
to
hasten
away
as
soon
as
possible
,
because
she
was
withal
lying
under
a
very
great
disturbance
and
dissatisfaction
of
mind
;
He
told
me
her
Trouble
of
Spiris
arose
from
some
Opinion
relating
to
matters
of
Religion
,
which
she
had
imbibed
in
her
Youth
,
and
now
it
became
her
burthen
.
But
when
I
came
,
I
found
another
kind
of
Trouble
,
another
Cause
,
and
of
a
deeper
Dye
.
The
Woman
lay
in
great
Anguish
,
exceedingly
disquieted
in
her
Soul
;
the
Occasion
far
wide
of
what
her
Husband
suggested
;
but
he
spake
as
he
thought
,
those
about
the
Woman
keeping
back
the
true
Cause
from
him
(
as
they
told
me
)
out
of
Prudence
,
he
being
of
too
Rugged
a
Temper
and
Carriage
.
It
was
this
;
In
the
mean
time
while
she
was
a
Servant
,
a
lewd
Fellow-servant
had
oft
attemted
to
corrupt
her
Chastity
,
following
her
up
and
down
continually
,
taking
all
occasions
Deut
.
21.
14.
to
humble
her
;
in
the
dark
about
the
House
,
in
the
Fields
where
she
was
employed
in
Countrey
business
.
She
resisted
,
and
withstood
him
for
a
long
time
very
vigorously
,
and
never
yielded
up
her self
to
his
Lusts
absolutely
,
to
the
last
;
but
in
short
,
not
making
the
Case
Known
,
nor
seeking
Help
,
at
last
,
through
the
Lusts
of
her
own
heart
,
and
the
Snare
of
the
Devil
,
being
so
oft
assaulted
,
and
so
lasciviously
,
by
a
filthy
wretch
,
she
was
guilty
of
too
much
dalliance
,
and
suffered
what
ought
not
to
have
been
.
Thus
she
got
a
Wound
and
Bruise
in
her
Soul
,
which
now
caused
Pains
and
Anguish
intolerable
.
She
told
me
,
she
was
a
Reprobate
,
a
damned
wretch
,
that
God
had
no
mercy
for
her
;
yea
,
upon
every
turn
this
was
her
Expression
,
That
she
felt
Hell-Fire
within
her
.
When
I
replied
,
That
the
Lord
was
willing
to
forgive
Sinners
,
even
the
Chiefest
,
upon
their
Repentance
,
and
Faith
in
his
Son
,
who
had
suffered
the
Wrath
of
God
due
to
sin
,
to
satisfie
for
the
same
,
and
reconcile
Us
to
the
Father
;
That
God
was
engaged
to
forgive
such
penitent
Believers
,
and
we
sinned
in
not
laying
hold
on
his
Covenant
;
she
would
reply
,
It
is
true
,
but
I
have
wilfully
sinned
,
and
am
actually
cast
off
b●
God
and
am
rejected
for
ever
.
She
shock
and
trembled
,
and
sweat
in
such
a
manner
while
she
was
disclosing
her
sin
,
and
declaring
her
Anguish
and
Torment
,
that
it
was
a
sad
thing
to
behold
a
poor
wretch
lying
in
so
miserable
a
condition
,
and
enough
to
make
one
think
that
every
thing
was
as
dreadful
as
she
said
.
When
I
found
that
no
Argument
would
move
her
,
to
express
any
hope
in
God's
Mercy
,
but
she
turned
all
up
on
her self
,
after
the
manner
of
such
despairing
Wretches
,
like
Spira
of
Old
,
and
such
as
have
been
quoted
of
the
same
kind
:
I
demanded
of
her
whether
she
was
willing
(
could
find
her
heart
willing
)
to
be
saved
?
whether
,
if
God
should
work
such
a
wonder
(
as
she
thought
of
it
)
as
to
pluck
her
as
a
Brand
out
of
the
Fire
,
and
to
give
her
an
Inheritance
in
Heaven
,
she
would
thank
God
,
and
be
glad
therein
?
Here
she
paused
,
and
was
at
a
stand
:
I
urged
her
to
speak
her
mind
,
to
consider
and
answer
.
If
her
torments
were
so
great
already
,
and
her
fear
and
dread
so
much
greater
,
would
she
not
bless
the
Lord
to
be
delivered
from
the
lowest
Hell
,
and
to
be
saved
with
everlasting
Salvation
?
At
len●●●
she
told
me
,
Yes
.
Then
I
set
in
with
her
answer
,
and
shewed
her
how
willing
God
was
,
how
gracious
,
that
nothing
was
wanting
on
his
part
;
that
if
she
could
believe
all
things
were
possible
,
she
should
see
the
salvation
of
God
▪
But
now
she
return'd
her
Old
Reply
;
It
was
indeed
the
truth
;
but
her
Time
was
past
;
she
was
even
now
suffering
the
Wrath
of
God
,
the
Torments
of
the
Damned
,
Hell
Fire
was
already
kindled
upon
her
.
I
confess
,
she
kept
so
close
to
this
,
that
it
silenc'd
me
;
and
tho
my
heart
was
melted
,
and
my
Spirit
much
moved
to
reveal
the
Grace
of
God
,
and
the
unsearchable
Riches
thereof
,
yet
I
could
not
beat
her
out
of
that
strong
hold
.
In
the
end
,
I
prayed
by
her
,
and
then
having
spent
a
little
time
more
in
Discourse
,
I
departed
.
This
I
had
upon
my
own
Spirit
,
that
God
had
Mercy
for
her
.
Methoughts
I
could
spy
something
to
build
upon
for
hope
of
her
Salvation
;
tho
I
must
confess
to
the
very
last
,
even
at
parting
,
she
said
still
the
same
things
,
That
Hell
was
her
portion
,
that
she
had
now
an
Hell
within
,
that
her
torments
were
dreadful
;
and
some
other
Expressions
worse
(
in
some
sense
.
)
Once
I
replyed
.
She
was
yet
upon
Earth
,
on
this
side
the
Grave
,
in
the
land
of
the
living
(
because
she
never
ceased
saying
,
she
was
in
Hell
)
:
She
returned
again
,
that
the
Wrath
of
God
was
Hell
,
and
that
she
suffered
and
endured
without
any
difference
from
those
in
the
place
of
eternal
Torments
.
This
is
the
Sum
of
what
I
can
call
to
mind
of
this
dreadful
Example
.
She
died
(
as
I
heard
afterwards
,
upon
Enquiry
)
soon
after
.
There
was
little
or
no
notice
of
her
condition
,
all
being
done
in
a
corner
,
among
poor
people
,
where
Visitors
were
few
,
and
they
were
all
willing
to
conceal
so
sad
a
Case
:
So
that
I
know
no
further
than
what
I
learnt
by
this
One
Visit
;
and
if
I
had
not
been
call'd
so
Providentially
,
what
is
here
related
had
been
all
lost
,
and
in
all
likelihood
had
never
been
brought
to
light
.
Now
let
Us
consider
,
and
see
what
Arguments
may
be
raised
hence
to
be
employed
on
the
behalf
of
our
Christian
Faith
,
against
Atheists
and
Scoffers
.
(
1.
)
I
observe
how
small
a
matter
(
as
Men
would
be
apt
to
speak
)
caused
all
this
Disturbance
;
what
a
spark
of
sin
set
the
Conscience
of
this
poor
creature
on
fire
.
Wantonness
and
Dalliance
,
how
common
is
it
in
the
world
?
What
a
trivial
Matter
is
it
with
many
to
stir
up
Lusts
in
themselves
or
others
,
by
wanton
Embraces
,
and
such
like
Behaviour
as
is
not
fit
to
be
named
.
Those
sins
comprehended
in
the
Apostles
Phrase
of
Works
of
Darkness
,
are
practic'd
every
Rom.
13.
12.
where
openly
,
in
City
and
Countrey
.
But
it
was
this
that
caused
all
these
Convulsions
and
Agonies
in
this
miserable
woman
O
that
Men
and
Women
,
Young
Men
and
Maids
,
would
be
Sober
and
Temperate
,
that
they
would
be
afraid
to
do
those
things
which
tend
to
shame
and
confusion
;
yea
,
the
end
of
which
is
death
.
Learn
by
this
Instance
to
fly
youthful
Lusts
,
ro
avoid
those
wanton
courses
which
corrupt
good
Manners
,
waste
and
wound
the
Conscience
,
lead
sinners
to
the
very
Suburbs
of
Hell
,
and
whence
there
is
no
deliverance
without
the
displaying
of
the
Riches
of
Divine
Grace
.
But
,
(
2
)
Whence
should
this
Horror
and
black
Despair
proceed
?
How
came
this
Worm
of
Conscience
so
grievously
to
gnaw
upon
her
heart
?
A
Wound
and
Reproach
she
had
got
none
among
Men
,
nay
,
her
Husband
himself
had
nothing
to
reproach
her
withal
,
and
yet
she
was
seized
with
this
Horror
and
Despair
,
and
a
Cloud
of
Darkness
came
over
her
at
her
very
end
,
and
a
dreadful
Storm
and
Tempest
did
seemingly
carry
her
away
.
If
all
were
the
Fruit
of
Natural
shame
,
arising
only
from
the
Prejudice
of
Education
(
as
Atheists
talk
)
why
then
did
she
not
smother
it
?
What
forc'd
her
to
reveal
it
at
the
very
end
of
her
Life
?
Or
how
came
it
to
torment
her
so
exceedingly
?
I
dare
be
confident
the
Atheists
and
Scoffers
commit
greater
Abominations
than
all
this
,
and
reveal
it
not
,
because
they
are
not
yet
under
such
a
fearful
Expectation
of
the
righteous
Judgment
of
God
.
But
when
God
sets
sin
thus
in
order
,
then
none
can
stand
,
but
the
hearts
of
all
flesh
faint
and
fail
;
then
Fear
and
Horror
seize
upon
the
sinners
.
This
,
this
was
the
Cause
,
that
though
she
was
dying
,
yet
she
must
needs
disclose
her
sin
;
therefore
she
could
not
hold
it
in
,
because
she
was
full
of
the
Fury
of
the
Lord
.
It
was
neither
common
sickness
,
nor
common
shame
could
cause
all
these
Pangs
and
Commotions
.
To
see
a
wretch
lye
in
this
condition
,
sweating
and
shaking
,
and
looking
with
a
countenance
which
spoke
her
inward
Terrour
,
and
talking
at
such
a
rate
of
the
Wrath
of
God
upon
her
:
What
creature
that
hath
the
Understanding
of
a
Man
,
but
must
conclude
here
was
the
finger
of
God
in
it
?
Surely
they
are
blind
that
cannot
see
this
,
they
are
without
Reason
,
who
would
impute
all
to
I
know
not
what
Occasions
,
rather
than
confess
the
Truth
,
to
the
Honour
of
the
great
God
,
and
Judge
of
all
the
world
;
it
may
be
their
own
time
may
come
when
they
shall
be
taught
with
an
Iron
Rod
and
Scorpions
.
Yet
further
.
(
3.
)
I
observe
her
godly
Education
;
for
this
,
as
she
told
me
,
she
had
enjoyed
,
and
it
was
a
great
Addition
to
her
Load
and
Torment
.
Her
Parents
were
Religious
Persons
,
and
instructed
her
well
,
so
that
she
knew
she
ought
not
to
yield
to
that
wicked
Servants
Temptations
,
and
strugglings
with
her
,
without
revealing
them
,
and
using
means
to
be
freed
from
such
sinfulness
.
Now
this
is
very
considerable
.
't
is
true
indeed
the
Atheists
will
catch
at
this
as
though
it
made
for
them
and
strengthned
their
prophane
Principles
,
the
stress
being
great
they
lay
upon
it
;
Say
they
,
So
it
is
indeed
,
where
persons
have
been
brought
up
with
the
Notions
of
Heaven
and
Hell
,
of
Eternal
Vengeance
due
to
sin
,
and
the
Torments
prepar'd
in
another
world
for
the
Transgressors
of
the
Law
of
God
;
These
things
,
say
they
,
in
time
of
bodily
weakness
come
to
mind
,
and
disturb
the
Man
or
Woman
,
working
upon
the
Fancy
or
Imagination
in
a
very
frightful
manner
,
just
as
the
stories
of
terrible
Chimera's
told
to
Children
,
make
deep
impression
upon
them
,
doing
wrong
to
their
Nature
,
by
disposing
them
to
fear
,
and
a
timorous
frame
ever
after
.
So
shamefully
do
many
discover
their
Principles
,
comparing
the
Terrors
of
the
Law
,
and
the
Threatnings
of
the
True
and
Eternal
God
;
to
such
Vanities
and
Trifles
.
But
will
they
hear
Reason
,
and
receive
an
Answer
grounded
upon
the
same
,
together
with
Experience
,
and
Scripture
which
is
fullfilled
in
the
Eyes
of
all
the
World
every
Day
?
I
answer
then
,
(
1
)
How
comes
it
about
that
all
sorts
of
Persons
fall
under
this
Fear
and
Terror
,
all
after
the
same
manner
,
and
sometimes
those
who
are
least
likely
,
in
the
highest
degree
?
Rich
and
Poor
,
Ignorant
and
Wise
,
Young
and
Old
,
Male
and
Female
,
those
that
have
but
little
of
this
Education
as
well
as
they
that
have
the
most
.
What
think
they
of
those
Honourable
Personages
of
High
Birth
,
of
pregnant
Parts
,
who
drank
as
deep
of
their
Cup
of
Abomination
in
their
Life-time
,
as
themselves
,
and
yet
in
their
Deaths
fell
under
the
same
Fears
and
Consternation
?
Surely
the
wise
,
and
they
that
had
been
hardening
their
hearts
a
long
time
,
and
fortifying
themselves
so
mightily
,
professing
such
Principles
as
these
,
should
have
quite
vanquish'd
those
vain
Fears
,
if
they
had
been
really
no
other
,
and
meer
Scare-Scrows
.
What
will
they
say
to
the
Death
,
and
dying
Remonstrance
of
the
late
E.
of
R.
But
(
2.
)
Doth
not
the
Scripture
say
this
very
thing
,
That
God
will
be
more
terrible
to
enlightned
Offenders
than
to
those
who
sin
thro'
Ignorance
?
Are
not
they
threatned
to
be
beaten
with
Luke
12.
many
stripes
?
Doth
not
God
denounce
greater
Wrath
against
his
own
People
than
others
?
You
only
have
I
Amos
3.
2.
known
of
all
the
Families
of
the
Earth
;
therefore
I
will
punish
you
for
your
Iniquities
.
Now
if
God
threaten
this
,
if
the
Scripture
prophecy
of
such
a
thing
,
and
it
come
frequently
to
pass
,
it
is
evident
that
it
is
of
God
,
and
that
the
same
Scripture
is
the
Word
of
Truth
.
For
Persons
who
have
apostatized
from
their
former
profession
of
Godliness
,
who
have
departed
from
the
way
in
which
they
have
Religiously
been
trained
up
from
their
Childhood
;
for
them
to
have
their
Consciences
wounded
,
and
to
fall
under
Horror
and
Despair
,
is
no
strange
thing
,
but
what
God
may
justly
inflict
upon
them
,
and
what
he
hath
threatned
to
do
.
But
(
3.
)
If
Education
be
a
refining
of
Nature
,
as
verily
it
is
,
which
none
but
brutish
persons
will
deny
,
then
the
impressions
which
are
made
by
such
education
are
not
to
be
counted
otherwise
than
good
and
noble
,
not
to
be
despised
and
condemned
,
but
well
spoken
of
,
and
reckoned
such
as
tend
to
perfect
the
man
.
They
that
crye
out
against
Christian
education
at
the
rate
that
Atheists
do
,
that
scoff
and
mock
thereat
,
arguing
after
that
manner
,
making
the
best
fruits
and
effects
of
it
to
be
meer
folly
and
madness
,
are
themselves
insufferable
,
and
worthy
to
be
banished
into
a
land
not
inhabited
by
men
,
at
least
not
by
Christians
.
What
would
they
bring
the
World
to
?
To
wallow
in
sins
and
lusts
,
to
commit
all
iniquity
with
greediness
;
put
out
the
eyes
of
the
understanding
;
stifle
conscience
and
fear
it
as
with
an
hot
iron
;
let
loose
the
inordinate
affections
;
and
extinguish
all
Gospel
revelation
?
No
question
of
it
;
this
is
at
the
bottom
of
their
crying
down
religious
education
.
Should
a
Club
of
drunkards
cry
down
all
Sobriety
,
it
were
more
tolerable
than
for
men
of
no
religion
(
save
the
name
only
)
to
decry
religious
education
.
Should
those
poor
creatures
in
Bedlam's
Hospital
talk
against
reason
,
and
laugh
at
all
who
were
not
guilty
of
their
dotages
and
extravagancies
,
there
would
be
more
reason
to
hearken
and
assent
to
all
they
say
,
though
they
set
folly
never
so
high
above
wisdom
,
than
to
lend
an
ear
to
those
Monsters
of
Men
who
set
their
mouths
against
Heaven
,
and
spit
their
venom
upon
every
good
thing
,
who
talk
against
God
,
and
Immortality
,
and
a
resurrection
,
and
conscience
,
and
a
Judgment
to
come
,
and
would
kill
religion
in
the
very
bud
of
Christian
education
:
Who
can
endure
to
hear
licentious
wretches
belching
out
those
loathsoms
principles
of
theirs
,
that
early
education
is
the
greatest
enemy
of
Man's
nature
,
that
the
instilling
vertue
and
religion
into
them
is
the
debasing
of
their
spirits
,
and
making
them
fearful
and
cowardly
?
that
this
is
all
the
fruit
of
the
care
and
pains
of
Pastors
,
and
Parents
,
and
Tutors
and
Masters
?
that
their
instructions
and
reproofs
and
warnings
,
as
far
as
they
have
their
foundation
in
Religion
,
are
no
better
than
this
,
to
make
men
live
uncomfortably
,
and
die
in
fear
and
perplexity
.
True
indeed
,
it
will
work
this
,
when
persons
depart
from
their
principles
of
goodness
,
and
give
up
themselves
to
work
all
unrighteousness
;
then
conscience
will
sting
them
,
and
death
will
be
bitter
to
them
;
but
the
righteous
are
as
bold
as
a
Lion
,
and
are
not
afraid
to
meet
death
,
as
knowing
that
sin
the
sting
of
death
is
taken
out
by
their
Redeemer
,
the
Son
of
God
,
the
Messiah
,
in
whom
they
have
believed
.
§.
III
.
Because
there
hath
past
a
word
or
two
of
Education
,
it
will
not
be
out
of
the
way
to
quote
an
Example
of
the
Vices
of
young
persons
,
and
the
strange
effects
they
have
had
upon
them
afterward
,
all
their
Life
Long
,
working
fear
and
terrour
in
them
,
arising
from
the
forementioned
grounds
,
even
the
sense
of
the
Displ●asure
of
the
most
pure
and
righteous
God
,
whom
they
have
provoked
by
their
lewd
practices
.
I
have
known
a
young
man
(
and
I
would
I
could
not
say
more
than
one
)
who
being
at
a
School
where
the
Boys
among
themselves
committed
many
evil
things
,
even
Defiling
themselves
,
and
working
such
things
as
were
unseemly
,
he
hereby
got
such
a
wound
and
bruise
in
his
Conscience
as
was
never
after
throughly
healed
,
never
having
perfect
joy
and
comfort
afterwards
;
though
he
wept
bitterly
,
and
humbled
himself
,
and
repented
in
the
very
dust
,
and
laid
hold
on
the
promise
of
Pardon
and
Forgiveness
through
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
yet
the
remembrance
of
those
youthful
ways
was
a
burden
very
heavy
,
and
a
matter
of
continual
shame
and
trouble
:
Others
might
be
cheerful
and
comfortable
,
enjoying
tranquility
and
serenity
of
mind
,
and
having
a
bright
Heaven
over
their
heads
;
but
as
for
him
he
still
complained
,
that
there
was
a
cloud
upon
his
Spirit
,
and
that
shame
and
confusion
were
ever
before
him
;
and
all
this
arose
from
that
early
practice
which
his
companions
enticed
him
to
,
even
to
sport
them
:
selves
together
in
such
a
manner
as
defiled
them
:
It
is
not
fit
to
express
the
matter
more
plainly
,
for
as
the
Apostle
speaks
of
those
greater
crimes
of
the
Heathens
,
't
is
true
of
this
little
seed
and
bud
of
that
wickedness
Eph.
5.
12.
it
is
a
shame
even
to
speak
of
those
things
which
are
done
of
them
in
secret
.
And
verily
it
would
be
an
excellent
peice
of
service
to
Christian
Religion
if
governours
of
families
,
especially
they
who
take
youth
to
board
for
publick
Schools
,
and
School-Masters
themselves
,
would
have
a
watchful
eye
over
those
committed
to
their
trust
;
If
they
would
employ
and
encourage
some
youths
they
could
trust
to
make
report
of
the
very
secret
practices
of
their
Companions
:
Little
do
many
think
what
leudness
is
committed
in
their
houses
,
yea
in
their
Schools
;
what
work
is
made
for
terrour
and
horrour
in
some
,
and
for
eternal
Judgment
in
others
:
If
they
be
not
careful
of
those
matters
,
and
do
not
apply
wholesome
councel
,
warning
,
instruction
,
or
correction
if
need
be
,
they
are
the
greatest
enemies
to
their
own
Religion
,
the
betrayers
of
the
best
part
of
their
trust
,
I
mean
the
souls
of
those
under
their
care
and
charge
in
the
absence
of
their
Parents
.
I
my self
have
been
a
Boarder
in
several
Families
,
when
about
that
Age
,
and
in
more
publick
Schools
than
one
,
and
my
Heart
akes
to
consider
what
I
have
seen
and
known
of
that
Nature
:
O
that
these
few
Lines
may
be
seasonable
to
alarm
them
who
have
the
care
and
tuition
of
Youth
!
But
to
return
to
the
example
after
this
necessary
digression
Remarks
may
well
be
made
upon
it
,
such
as
these
.
1.
Whence
comes
it
to
pass
that
there
should
be
such
a
little
remembrance
of
youthful
sins
?
That
persons
should
be
so
mightily
tormented
upon
the
account
of
what
they
committed
so
early
?
Indeed
what
hath
been
here
written
is
not
the
half
what
some
have
felt
and
suffered
of
this
nature
,
it
doth
not
express
the
heaviness
hath
been
many
years
upon
them
;
they
have
mourned
for
their
evil
ways
,
and
would
not
,
could
not
,
be
comforted
:
Though
none
have
accused
them
of
such
things
,
yea
though
there
hath
not
been
the
least
notice
taken
thereof
,
not
a
word
or
syllable
dropt
to
stir
up
shame
or
grief
in
them
,
yet
they
have
fallen
into
this
shame
and
confusion
,
and
fear
,
accusing
,
judging
and
condemning
themselves
.
What
can
this
be
ascribed
to
but
the
hand
of
God
?
But
the
Law
written
in
their
hearts
?
And
that
conscience
which
God
hath
armed
with
a
power
to
accuse
,
witness
,
judge
and
condemn
?
2.
Whence
was
it
that
nothing
was
sufficient
to
relieve
them
in
such
a
case
,
however
throughly
to
heal
and
comfort
them
,
no
not
the
consideration
of
the
age
in
which
they
did
such
things
,
nor
the
kind
of
evil
committed
,
nor
such
other
circumstances
as
might
attenuate
and
lessen
the
crime
?
Atheistical
persons
mock
at
all
sin
,
however
circumstantiated
,
but
surely
such
cases
as
these
they
would
count
meer
trifles
,
and
turn
them
off
very
easily
,
sporting
at
such
youthful
extravagancies
.
But
,
alas
!
These
considerations
were
not
wanting
to
those
who
yet
were
scarce
able
to
bear
up
under
their
burden
of
guilt
and
horrour
;
they
had
reason
to
consider
the
case
well
,
and
make
the
best
of
it
,
but
their
reason
was
that
which
wounded
them
more
deeply
,
because
they
saw
such
natural
corruption
within
them
,
such
early
inclinations
to
evils
,
and
such
consent
and
yeilding
to
leud
and
wicked
companions
.
The
Law
of
God
was
made
for
the
young
as
well
as
the
old
,
and
therefore
the
breach
of
that
Law
,
though
in
their
youth
,
was
a
grievous
wound
and
torment
to
them
.
3.
The
secresy
of
those
young
sinners
is
very
remarkable
Sinners
of
all
ages
and
conditions
are
naturally
alike
afraid
of
the
Law
;
therefore
they
all
vainly
seek
to
hide
themselves
;
even
these
young
ones
use
to
seek
secret
places
to
pollute
themselves
;
so
that
such
as
these
may
well
come
under
the
Apostles
rebuke
of
Chambering
and
Wantonness
,
as
well
Rom.
13.
13.
as
those
who
are
old
in
sin
.
There
were
indeed
degrees
among
them
,
some
being
more
hardned
than
others
,
and
not
sticking
at
any
place
,
but
others
,
and
more
commonly
,
seeking
a
greater
privacy
.
§.
IV
.
I
come
now
to
produce
another
sort
of
example
,
tending
still
to
make
good
the
Argument
,
that
there
is
a
God
,
and
that
he
governs
the
world
,
and
will
in
his
time
judge
the
world
,
and
reward
every
man
eternally
according
to
his
works
:
The
proof
hath
hitherto
arisen
thus
,
that
the
Soul
or
conscience
of
man
hath
a
certain
sense
thereof
,
even
in
the
greatest
sinners
themselves
;
Upon
the
breach
of
Gods
law
there
hath
followed
shame
and
horrour
,
such
as
declares
and
makes
it
evident
to
all
the
world
,
that
they
expect
the
vengeance
of
the
just
and
eternal
God
to
come
upon
them
and
consume
them
;
and
it
hath
been
made
as
plain
,
that
all
this
was
Supernatural
:
Now
the
following
examples
are
also
to
the
same
purpose
,
though
a
little
differing
,
and
of
a
lower
sphere
.
It
hath
been
my
lot
to
have
been
acquainted
with
several
persons
who
have
been
under
great
disquietude
of
mind
,
strange
hurries
,
confusions
and
distractions
,
which
have
brought
them
almost
to
their
wits
end
;
the
cause
of
all
which
hath
been
preternatural
,
I
mean
not
from
their
bodily
humours
,
constitutions
and
tempers
,
or
at
least
but
accidentally
,
as
I
shall
shew
,
and
labour
to
set
forth
by
and
by
:
these
cases
were
spiritual
,
and
sometimes
little
or
nothing
depending
upon
the
body
;
and
they
had
ends
very
different
,
some
very
tragical
,
others
without
any
mischief
coming
upon
them
,
nay
,
very
comfortable
and
peaceable
,
going
off
with
greater
light
and
liberty
and
tranquility
.
Once
I
was
called
to
a
man
in
our
neighbourhood
one
R.
M.
whose
condition
was
deplorable
,
and
the
occasion
of
his
trouble
as
strange
,
and
his
end
as
lamentable
,
by
laying
violent
hands
on
himself
,
and
destroying
his
own
life
.
The
case
was
this
,
(
as
he
told
me
face
to
face
)
One
night
as
he
lay
in
bed
he
heard
(
as
he
thought
)
great
groaning
and
lamentation
made
in
the
next
room
,
which
continued
and
increased
to
that
height
that
he
was
exceedingly
disturbed
,
and
thought
verily
that
the
Woman
who
lay
there
(
and
was
his
Housekeeper
,
he
being
a
single
Man
)
was
the
person
from
whom
it
proceeded
.
Hereupon
he
arose
,
and
enquired
of
her
if
all
were
well
.
She
answered
,
Yes
.
Then
he
returned
,
and
immediately
heard
the
same
Groans
;
This
put
him
upon
thinking
what
it
should
mean
;
and
then
it
darted
into
his
mind
,
that
his
Sister
,
a
poor
Woman
,
who
lived
about
a
Mile
and
an
half
off
,
was
sick
and
dying
:
He
presently
hast'ned
away
to
her
House
,
found
the
door
locked
,
and
the
Woman
indeed
so
sick
and
spent
,
that
she
was
not
able
to
rise
and
let
him
in
;
upon
this
he
called
help
,
broke
open
the
door
,
and
finding
her
in
a
very
dangerous
condition
,
got
Advice
from
one
who
Practis'd
Physick
(
the
next
at
hand
)
who
ordered
some
Medicines
,
but
in
vain
,
for
she
quickly
died
.
This
strange
accident
struck
such
a
damp
upon
his
Spirits
,
that
he
fell
immediately
into
a
deep
Melancholly
,
which
ended
at
last
very
Tragical
,
both
for
Body
and
Soul
;
for
he
killed
himself
,
and
while
he
lived
,
lay
under
horrour
and
despair
.
He
cried
out
he
was
Damned
,
and
could
have
no
Peace
or
Rest
,
or
take
any
Comfort
.
When
I
discoursed
him
it
appeared
to
me
that
his
mind
was
wonderfully
disturbed
and
confused
:
He
aggravated
his
crime
of
neglecting
his
poor
Sister
at
a
strange
rate
.
Poor
Wretch
!
He
would
plead
,
that
not
to
shew
pity
and
to
help
the
Fatherless
and
Widows
in
distress
,
was
the
greatest
sin
conceivable
;
that
it
was
greater
than
Murder
;
that
none
had
sinn'd
like
him
;
tho
all
this
while
nothing
could
be
learnt
that
he
had
been
truly
guilty
in
this
Nature
▪
tho
he
charged
it
indeed
from
this
accident
upon
himself
,
and
it
workt
strangely
upon
him
,
to
such
an
height
as
the
sequel
may
sufficiently
make
it
appear
.
It
was
but
once
I
visited
him
,
when
I
heard
from
his
own
Mouth
this
extraordinary
Relation
,
and
saw
the
dismal
effects
of
it
;
after
some
Discourse
and
Prayer
,
I
advised
him
,
according
to
my
weak
judgment
,
what
course
to
take
,
and
what
means
to
use
,
refering
him
for
his
Body
to
a
Physitian
,
and
so
departed
;
I
had
hopes
he
would
get
over
this
Perplexity
and
Trouble
,
but
I
would
what
follows
had
not
hapned
;
tho
I
do
not
charge
the
Mischief
absolutely
upon
the
Parties
to
be
mentioned
,
yet
't
is
pity
they
acted
so
inconsiderately
and
did
so
much
wrong
.
There
were
a
sort
of
People
about
him
,
who
finding
the
poor
man
in
this
trouble
,
thought
to
make
a
Proselite
of
him
,
and
presently
sate
in
,
and
told
him
,
his
way
to
have
Peace
and
Comfort
was
to
be
Dipped
;
that
his
Infant-baptism
was
of
no
value
,
and
not
to
be
trusted
in
as
any
thing
yeilding
Spiritual
Profit
and
Comfort
:
with
this
new
Doctrin
they
puzl'd
afresh
his
weak
disturbed
head
,
and
whereas
the
poor
wretch
stood
in
need
of
solid
instruction
suitable
to
his
malady
,
especially
that
the
devices
of
Satan
should
be
laid
open
to
him
,
and
his
ignorant
mind
instructed
in
those
Scriptures
by
him
perverted
,
and
the
Doctrine
of
the
Grace
of
God
in
Christ
cleared
to
him
;
instead
of
such
Applications
they
busily
infused
this
Notion
;
and
this
presently
filled
him
with
a
new
kind
of
Disorder
:
Now
he
questioned
his
Religion
,
and
doubts
of
his
Opinion
and
Principles
;
he
was
in
no
condition
to
consider
of
these
important
matters
,
and
yet
he
dared
not
desist
:
This
became
a
new
matter
of
Confusion
,
and
how
great
it
was
I
was
better
able
to
guess
,
than
to
express
it
,
and
leave
every
reader
to
judg
.
Thus
was
he
hurried
in
his
mind
,
and
suffered
not
a
little
by
this
blind
and
inconsiderate
Zeal
:
At
last
it
ended
in
a
perfect
Distraction
;
then
care
was
taken
to
prevent
what
might
happen
,
yet
it
could
not
be
done
;
for
notwithstanding
the
attendance
of
two
men
,
who
were
conducting
him
to
a
neighbouring
Town
for
a
Physitian's
help
,
he
found
a
means
to
Cut
his
Throat
.
't
is
beside
my
purpose
to
make
Reflections
upon
persons
of
any
Opinion
or
Persuasion
in
Religion
,
besides
Atheists
,
who
are
its
avowed
Enemies
.
The
Anabaptists
,
or
the
Baptists
(
as
they
rather
chuse
to
call
themselves
)
are
men
to
whom
I
bare
no
such
grudg
or
envy
as
to
bring
up
any
evil
report
upon
them
,
as
a
Calumny
or
unjust
Accusation
God
forbid
,
that
while
I
am
writing
for
Christianity
,
I
should
act
so
contrary
to
one
of
its
Principles
as
to
do
thus
.
They
are
Christians
,
and
will
,
I
doubt
not
,
espouse
this
cause
of
our
Lord
with
my self
;
and
there
are
some
of
them
my
worthy
good
Friends
,
Pious
and
Judicious
persons
;
but
this
I
must
Publish
upon
this
sad
occasion
(
and
I
pray
God
the
Guilty
would
consider
it
)
if
a
Man
or
Woman
come
under
Trouble
of
Mind
,
and
they
can
spie
it
out
,
or
if
any
one
newly
be
joyn'd
to
their
fellow
Dissenters
of
other
Opinions
,
immediately
they
set
upon
them
,
thinking
that
now
it
is
their
time
to
Proselite
them
to
their
Party
;
and
then
they
urge
Dipping
,
and
lay
such
a
stress
upon
it
,
that
they
make
it
a
Salve
for
every
Spiritual
Sore
,
and
make
all
Religion
to
lie
in
going
down
into
the
Water
.
But
,
alas
!
What
kind
of
course
is
this
?
To
take
Advantage
of
their
Bodily
Weakness
,
and
Infirmity
,
and
confusion
of
their
Minds
to
win
persons
,
or
draw
them
rather
to
a
Party
?
How
contrary
is
this
to
the
free
and
open
preaching
of
the
Gospel
practised
by
Christ
and
his
Apostles
?
Truth
seeks
not
corner
,
but
loves
the
clearest
light
,
and
gets
most
ground
when
it
meets
its
enemies
in
their
full
strength
,
and
they
have
all
the
advantage
on
their
side
they
can
wish
or
desire
.
To
act
otherways
argues
a
bad
cause
,
or
at
least
a
rash
zeal
to
promote
a
good
one
in
a
wrong
way
.
Would
to
God
such
proceedings
might
be
laid
down
,
and
men
do
so
no
more
,
as
upon
my
own
experience
,
and
not
a
single
one
onely
,
they
have
done
.
Let
Christians
labour
to
build
up
one
another
in
faith
in
Christ
,
in
love
to
God
and
Man
,
and
stir
up
one
another
to
good
works
,
and
beware
how
they
trouble
themselves
or
their
brethren
(
especially
at
so
unseasonable
times
)
with
questions
tending
to
endless
strife
and
debate
,
raising
doubts
and
scruples
,
and
striking
dread
and
terrour
into
ignorant
and
weak
souls
,
m●king
them
to
question
their
eternal
well
fare
,
if
they
do
not
presently
subscribe
their
Faith
,
and
espouse
their
principles
.
But
enough
of
this
,
yet
I
hope
not
too
much
,
because
my
matter
led
me
to
it
,
and
I
cannot
but
judge
it
necessary
;
God
grant
it
may
be
profitable
.
Now
let
us
recollect
the
former
example
,
and
say
something
of
it
,
answerable
to
the
chief
design
in
writing
,
to
confute
Atheists
and
Scoffers
.
Some
may
think
this
a
barren
subject
to
ground
any
thing
of
this
nature
upon
,
but
yet
not
so
barren
a
soyl
,
but
it
may
yeild
some
fruit
to
them
that
search
it
out
.
1.
I
observe
that
this
must
needs
bea
Sathanical
Delusion
,
and
carried
on
by
the
wise
and
holy
permission
of
God
to
bring
about
his
secret
purposes
.
That
this
was
done
by
some
Angelical
spirit
(
and
there
is
little
reason
to
think
it
a
good
one
)
is
surely
unquestionable
.
For
which
way
should
the
spirit
of
this
man
himself
act
and
work
at
this
rate
,
divining
at
things
at
such
a
distance
,
and
being
so
disturbed
at
sounds
and
noises
truly
presignifying
somewhat
of
a
like
nature
with
what
he
was
concerned
in
?
how
should
the
event
prove
so
true
answering
his
thoughts
?
His
Sister
being
languishing
and
dying
at
this
time
;
and
he
not
only
fancying
such
a
thing
,
but
finding
it
more
and
more
sensibly
till
he
was
led
to
the
place
where
he
really
discovered
the
ground
of
that
amazing
alarum
?
To
deny
the
matter
of
fact
so
notably
circumstantiated
,
is
for
men
to
say
that
all
are
liars
but
themselves
;
to
attribute
it
to
a
melancholly
fancy
or
imagination
,
which
might
by
Chance
hit
upon
such
a
thing
,
would
be
a
reviving
of
that
old
Atheistical
dotage
,
that
all
things
come
to
pass
by
chance
,
according
to
the
sect
of
the
Epicureans
,
even
the
world
it self
;
but
when
we
see
the
least
things
come
to
pass
thus
,
as
houses
builded
,
and
books
made
,
without
any
help
of
an
intelligent
cause
,
meerly
by
this
chance
,
then
we
may
hearken
to
such
solly
.
But
some
may
say
that
melancholly
persons
have
hit
upon
strange
presages
,
as
to
speak
languages
they
knew
not
,
to
perform
peices
of
art
and
skill
they
never
had
any
education
to
give
them
knowledge
or
understanding
in
;
and
so
also
to
prophesy
of
events
beyond
their
natural
power
to
know
;
and
so
this
man
might
have
a
melancholly
fancy
or
conceit
of
somewhat
which
might
prove
true
in
the
manner
recited
.
But
what
an
irrational
and
absurd
saying
is
this
,
if
duely
considered
?
what
is
it
grounded
upon
but
meer
presumption
,
without
any
reason
to
make
it
good
?
That
this
happens
sometimes
to
melancholly
persons
,
or
rather
to
persons
possest
,
none
doubts
;
who
hath
not
read
or
heard
of
such
things
,
matters
of
fact
unqustionably
true
?
But
if
this
be
of
themselves
,
and
not
from
intelligent
agents
,
who
invisibly
work
the
same
;
representing
such
things
to
their
imagination
,
and
moving
the
Organs
of
their
bodies
,
what
then
shall
we
make
of
it
?
What
reason
shall
we
assign
?
Verily
a
man
must
confess
that
there
is
a
divine
relation
,
or
a
diabolical
inspiration
and
agency
,
in
all
such
cases
:
He
that
doth
not
own
this
,
must
say
nothing
,
or
as
good
as
nothing
;
Let
any
make
tryal
,
and
say
further
,
and
see
if
he
doth
not
speak
absurdities
and
contradictions
,
and
discover
his
own
folly
:
Like
as
Plutarch
,
who
would
give
a
reason
for
the
silence
of
the
Oracles
,
and
not
knowing
,
or
at
least
not
acquiescing
in
the
true
cause
being
our
Lord
Christ's
triumphing
over
the
Devil
,
and
spoyling
those
principalities
and
powers
,
he
laboured
in
the
fire
,
and
though
a
wise
Man
,
yet
he
assign'd
reasons
very
ridiculous
,
as
will
appear
to
any
who
will
take
the
pains
to
read
him
upon
that
subject
;
his
great
conclusion
being
this
,
that
the
Oracles
were
all
from
a
kind
of
blast
arising
at
set
times
out
of
the
earth
through
some
natural
hidden
cause
now
decayed
,
and
so
there
was
no
further
spirit
of
prophecy
;
strange
,
that
a
natural
blast
,
a
vapour
,
or
subterraneous
wind
should
inspire
the
Pythonisses
,
and
make
them
capable
of
predicting
so
many
things
as
they
did
.
But
,
alas
!
Poor
Heathens
who
walked
in
darkness
,
might
well
stumble
,
and
as
they
worshipped
stocks
and
stones
and
ascribed
a
divinity
to
their
idols
,
they
might
easily
err
in
ascribing
this
supernatural
power
to
the
winds
and
vapours
.
But
to
come
closer
to
our
Atheists
,
who
are
sworn
enemies
to
the
doctrine
of
possessions
by
evil
Spirits
;
if
these
predictions
be
not
from
such
a
cause
,
then
it
must
be
from
the
Men
and
Women
themselves
;
they
must
then
find
it
within
them
;
But
it
cannot
be
from
the
body
,
and
the
corpulent
matter
;
how
should
that
foretel
and
predict
?
Let
them
shew
it
if
they
can
:
But
if
it
be
from
the
Soul
and
Spirit
in
them
,
then
here
is
an
argument
ad
hominem
;
Surely
then
it
is
a
more
excellent
substance
and
being
,
than
they
ever
allowed
;
't
is
then
indeed
a
Ray
of
the
immortal
Sun
,
the
image
of
the
divine
nature
.
What
strange
accounts
are
there
(
infallibly
true
,
and
beyond
all
contradiction
)
of
these
kind
of
prognostications
,
proceeding
from
such
persons
as
never
pretended
to
any
skill
or
art
above
other
men
,
nay
,
when
they
themselves
were
ignorant
,
at
other
times
,
of
such
things
as
they
then
wrought
or
uttered
,
and
knew
not
the
truth
of
what
they
delivered
so
prophetically
?
Witness
the
famous
dream
of
Sir
H.
W's
.
father
,
about
the
robbery
of
the
University
treasury
,
wherein
he
saw
the
rogues
in
their
true
lineaments
and
habits
so
as
to
give
a
discovery
of
them
in
a
letter
to
his
Son
in
the
Colledge
,
whereby
they
were
discovered
and
apprehended
:
But
there
are
multitudes
of
such
instances
.
They
who
will
not
own
some
external
agent
,
some
spiritual
intelligent
beings
,
to
make
these
revelations
and
impressions
,
must
solve
these
Phaenomena
,
another
way
if
they
be
able
;
and
let
them
take
heed
they
speak
sound
sense
.
2.
The
subject
before
us
runs
yet
higher
;
here
is
a
strange
impulse
upon
the
mind
of
this
poor
wretch
carried
on
so
far
that
at
last
it
ends
in
distraction
and
self-murder
:
Yea
though
the
man
did
immediately
discharge
his
duty
very
largely
toward
the
woman
,
and
her
children
after
her
death
,
and
began
to
be
too
profuse
in
his
charity
towards
the
poor
,
so
that
he
would
have
parted
with
all
his
substance
,
and
have
become
poor
and
miserable
himself
,
if
he
had
not
been
staid
from
his
extravagant
purpose
;
yet
nothing
would
availe
,
but
a
strange
inquietude
seized
his
Spirit
,
and
he
was
hurried
from
one
thing
to
another
,
till
at
last
he
was
weary
of
his
life
,
and
sought
to
rid
himself
of
his
misery
by
putting
an
end
thereto
.
What
shall
be
thought
of
this
,
and
such
like
cases
?
Is
not
the
hand
of
Sathan
in
it
,
very
evidently
?
Whence
should
all
this
storm
and
tempest
arise
,
and
increase
so
far
,
but
from
that
evil
spirit
,
who
loves
to
cloud
the
mind
,
and
wrap
up
himself
in
darkness
,
that
he
may
work
more
effectually
upon
poor
,
weak
and
deluded
Sinners
?
Here
he
fell
like
lightning
,
and
as
he
Scared
Job
with
dreams
,
and
terrified
him
with
Ch.
7.
14.
visions
of
the
night
;
so
he
did
to
this
ignorant
and
feeble
creature
;
and
tho
secret
things
belong
to
God
,
yet
it
is
clear
enough
so
far
,
that
he
hurried
him
away
,
and
prevailed
upon
him
to
be
his
own
Executioner
.
That
mirrour
of
patience
,
Job
I
mean
,
yeilded
not
at
all
to
this
part
of
the
temptation
,
of
Cursing
God
,
and
destroying
his
own
life
;
but
here
he
proved
victorious
These
things
may
seem
Riddles
,
and
become
matter
of
scorn
and
laughter
to
Atheistical
persons
,
leud
wretches
who
give
themselves
up
to
pleasures
,
and
have
no
will
or
leisure
to
examin
the
grounds
and
occasions
of
such
tragical
matters
;
but
how
consonant
is
this
to
the
holy
Scripture
,
and
how
agreeable
to
reason
,
when
all
the
circumstances
are
duly
weighed
?
How
many
and
how
frequent
examples
are
there
every
where
of
this
nature
?
Of
such
workings
of
that
enemy
of
mankind
,
and
great
disturber
of
the
Peace
and
Quiet
of
our
Souls
?
Some
are
urged
to
do
that
which
they
most
hate
,
and
violently
urged
,
against
their
Inclinations
.
Some
feel
a
kind
of
Force
upon
their
Spirits
,
compelling
them
to
such
Actions
as
they
loathe
and
abhor
.
Their
Fancy
and
Imagination
is
filled
with
abominable
Idea's
;
and
not
only
so
,
but
they
are
even
made
to
believe
things
of
persons
,
which
are
contrary
to
their
Sense
,
Reason
and
Judgment
,
and
which
tend
only
to
Strife
,
Contention
,
Hatred
,
and
such
deplorable
Effects
.
I
confess
,
when
I
have
some
times
read
the
Monstrous
Hatred
between
Parents
and
Children
,
Husbands
and
Wives
,
as
it
is
reported
in
authentick
Historians
,
I
have
much
wondered
thereat
;
but
now
I
think
it
is
not
so
hard
to
render
a
Reason
for
it
many
times
.
If
it
were
needful
,
or
lawful
to
produce
Instances
by
Name
,
to
name
the
Persons
;
I
could
set
forth
such
Examples
as
are
most
amazing
:
Of
Wives
,
who
have
lain
under
continual
Hurries
of
their
Minds
,
being
never
at
rest
,
but
provoked
to
take
away
the
Life
of
their
dearest
Husbands
;
against
whom
they
have
not
the
least
grudge
,
but
love
them
as
their
own
Souls
.
Others
have
been
stirred
up
to
think
,
and
do
things
which
it
is
unaccountable
how
it
should
enter
into
their
hearts
,
if
there
were
not
this
Solutioo
of
it
,
That
the
unclean
and
wicked
Spirit
,
that
Old
Serpent
,
the
Father
of
Lies
and
Murders
,
suggests
such
matters
,
and
is
at
work
in
the
heart
to
carry
on
the
same
;
he
lays
the
Scene
,
he
stands
behind
the
curtain
,
and
acts
invisibly
.
Some
of
these
tempted
persons
have
revealed
their
condition
to
my self
,
and
bemoaned
it
,
desiring
advice
and
assistance
.
Some
have
been
at
the
very
brink
of
Ruin
,
being
ready
to
sink
in
the
Mire
and
Clay
,
and
to
perish
in
those
Mighty
Waters
;
but
it
hath
pleased
God
,
after
the
Trial
of
their
Faith
and
Patience
,
to
set
them
free
,
and
lead
them
into
a
large
place
.
Some
of
these
Cases
spring
,
as
it
were
,
out
of
the
ground
,
there
being
no
manifest
procuring
cause
,
no
sin
or
iniquity
but
what
is
common
to
our
corrupt
Nature
;
but
others
have
had
more
matter
within
them
,
for
that
wicked
Spirit
to
work
upon
;
and
then
the
Case
hath
been
more
deplorable
,
the
temptation
and
trouble
lasting
longer
,
and
being
also
more
black
and
terrible
.
What
can
Atheists
say
to
these
things
?
Whence
proceed
those
impulses
upon
persons
Spirits
,
of
this
Kind
,
which
are
so
common
?
Whereby
they
are
almost
constrained
to
do
Evil
,
even
what
they
hate
,
and
which
creates
them
so
much
trouble
?
Nay
,
which
things
are
so
troublesome
to
them
,
whether
they
consent
or
not
thereto
?
Especially
,
what
can
they
say
to
that
which
is
carried
on
sometimes
even
to
Frenzy
and
Distraction
,
to
Horror
and
Despair
,
which
is
more
bitter
and
terrible
than
Death
it self
;
so
that
they
chuse
Strangling
rather
than
to
live
?
The
Natural
Result
of
All
this
,
and
what
is
most
easily
deduced
from
the
same
,
is
,
That
there
is
a
Devil
,
and
that
through
the
Corruption
in
us
,
and
the
guilt
of
our
hearts
arising
from
our
sins
,
he
hath
great
advantage
over
us
,
so
that
sometimes
he
makes
a
Prey
of
sinners
,
driving
them
whereever
he
will
,
into
spiritual
Pits
and
Precipices
of
Horror
and
Despair
,
and
sometimes
into
Self-Murder
of
various
kinds
.
Oh
how
needful
is
that
Petition
of
our
Lord's
Prayer
,
Lead
us
not
into
Temptation
,
but
deliver
us
from
Evil
,
{αβγδ}
,
from
the
Evil
One
,
the
Devil
,
(
as
the
Scripture-Phrase
will
bear
it
)
.
For
my
part
,
I
do
not
think
that
the
Possessions
read
of
in
the
Gospel
,
were
only
singular
Cases
;
for
that
Age
and
Season
when
the
Messiah
came
into
the
World
to
give
occasion
to
the
proof
of
his
divinity
,
by
his
dispossessing
those
wicked
Spirits
;
he
needed
not
such
a
testimony
,
doing
other
works
which
abundantly
declared
his
Godhead
;
though
out
of
pity
to
poor
possessed
wretches
he
did
this
also
as
it
lay
in
his
way
:
But
surely
there
is
somewhat
of
the
same
kind
in
all
ages
,
and
quarters
of
the
world
;
and
the
more
corrupt
any
time
or
place
is
,
the
more
of
these
possessions
;
even
as
sicknesses
,
diseases
and
deaths
abound
according
to
a
peoples
sinfulness
;
and
strange
judgments
are
the
fruits
of
greater
wickednesses
:
Hereby
there
is
,
besides
other
ends
of
Gods
permitting
it
,
perpetual
occasion
for
the
proof
of
the
power
of
the
Word
and
Prayer
;
these
work
mightily
upon
such
persons
to
help
them
:
Though
all
are
not
saved
by
the
Ministry
of
the
word
,
and
prayer
,
and
spiritual
advice
,
as
the
Apostles
themselves
could
not
Mark
.
1.
18.
always
cast
out
Sathan
,
yet
this
kind
generally
goes
out
by
these
means
;
and
it
may
be
an
argument
against
Atheists
,
that
when
no
other
means
in
the
World
,
as
Physick
,
Mirth
and
pleasure
,
or
business
can
avail
any
thing
,
yet
then
this
saves
many
such
persons
;
it
restores
their
souls
,
bringing
Joy
and
gladness
gain
into
them
.
§.
V.
Thus
I
hope
the
Title
is
made
good
,
and
the
matter
in
hand
made
evident
by
the
Examples
laid
down
,
and
the
Reflections
upon
them
of
the
horrour
and
despair
of
some
poor
wretches
under
apprehension
of
the
judgment
to
come
;
some
things
also
have
been
brought
forth
to
corroberate
the
evidence
.
Now
if
any
of
the
scoffers
,
and
enemies
of
Religion
,
can
give
a
solution
of
such
matters
as
have
been
propounded
,
and
give
a
rational
account
how
these
troubles
come
,
and
grow
to
such
an
height
without
any
relation
to
Religion
,
to
God
or
the
Law
of
God
,
or
a
guilty
conscience
,
and
the
judgment
to
come
,
they
will
attempt
that
which
never
yet
hath
been
done
,
and
I
am
bold
to
say
,
never
will
.
We
may
read
,
and
hear
,
and
see
Atheistical
mockers
in
the
pride
of
their
hearts
puffing
at
God
himself
,
belching
out
their
blasphemies
against
their
Creatour
,
scoffing
at
his
holy
Word
,
and
ridiculing
all
such
examples
of
guilty
,
trembling
Sinners
,
who
are
filled
with
the
terrours
and
indignation
of
the
Lord
:
They
call
them
silly
,
weak
and
fearful
creatures
;
They
brand
them
with
cowardize
,
and
turn
all
into
a
matter
of
common
melancholly
;
and
this
is
the
hinge
upon
which
all
(
I
do
not
say
their
arguments
but
)
their
mockery
and
railery
turns
;
besides
this
they
have
nothing
to
say
in
defence
of
their
abominable
principles
,
and
to
impeach
the
solid
assertions
of
those
that
are
believers
.
But
what
a
desperate
folly
and
madness
is
this
that
doth
possess
these
men
?
They
are
not
only
of
a
perverse
Spirit
,
as
the
Stoick
of
old
,
who
would
stiffly
assert
,
that
no
passion
ever
be●ell
a
wise
or
vertuous
man
,
as
though
they
could
put
off
the
man
when
they
would
,
and
be
as
Gods
;
or
of
a
Sceptical
opinion
,
as
they
who
would
not
believe
any
motion
,
when
yet
they
saw
every
thing
almost
in
the
world
moving
;
nor
such
Pyrrhonians
,
who
will
doubt
of
every
thing
,
and
cavil
for
contention
sake
:
But
these
Atheists
and
Sadduces
of
our
age
destroy
Reason
and
Religion
all
at
once
;
They
lay
the
ax
to
the
root
of
Truth
,
and
resolve
to
give
the
lye
both
to
God
and
man
;
nay
they
will
not
believe
their
own
eyes
,
nor
ears
,
nor
reason
,
against
their
wicked
principles
.
Some
of
themselves
have
felt
the
wrath
of
God
,
and
fallen
into
grievous
horrour
,
crying
out
they
have
sinned
and
done
wickedly
,
and
now
God
hath
met
with
them
,
and
their
burthen
is
greater
than
they
can
bear
;
But
their
old
companions
say
of
them
,
that
now
they
know
not
what
they
say
,
that
they
are
delirious
,
or
in
a
dream
,
and
that
they
are
afraid
of
their
own
shadow
.
Then
it
seems
none
have
sense
but
profest
Atheists
,
none
have
reason
but
they
.
A
wise
world
indeed
at
this
rate
!
Nay
the
poor
wretches
who
lye
under
such
torments
must
be
abused
by
them
,
and
become
their
laughing
stock
,
while
they
are
in
such
misery
,
and
suffering
the
wrath
of
God
.
But
this
is
just
the
old
policy
of
the
Devil
,
to
lay
false
things
to
the
charge
of
the
godly
,
and
to
put
false
constructions
upon
the
works
of
God
,
on
purpose
that
men
may
not
regard
them
,
not
take
any
due
notice
thereof
for
their
education
and
profit
.
These
,
say
they
,
are
poor
,
ignorant
,
deluded
and
melancholly
men
and
women
,
and
there
is
no
heed
to
be
taken
to
what
they
say
or
do
.
A
fine
stratagem
!
A
design
fairly
laid
to
take
off
the
sense
of
all
the
judgments
of
God
in
the
world
of
this
nature
,
to
render
all
examples
useless
,
and
in
short
to
make
men
stocks
and
stones
,
or
which
is
yet
worse
,
and
they
had
rather
,
to
make
us
all
turn
Beasts
,
that
so
we
might
go
Hand
in
Hand
together
.
Truly
,
as
it
hath
been
wisely
observed
,
Mr.
Pascal's
thoughts
.
It
is
an
Honour
to
Religion
to
have
such
Unreasonable
Men
for
its
Enemies
;
And
to
have
such
inconsiderable
Opposition
made
thereto
is
its
advantage
.
All
that
Atheists
can
say
,
is
this
,
Believe
none
but
us
;
Believe
not
the
sober
sort
of
Mankind
;
for
they
are
Ignorant
,
Melancholy
,
and
Mad
,
Persons
of
no
Courage
or
Resolution
;
but
trust
Us
,
who
dare
do
any
thing
,
who
set
our
Mouths
against
Heaven
,
and
would
fain
bring
our selves
to
believe
,
that
there
is
neither
God
nor
Devil
;
who
would
fain
renounce
all
Religion
,
and
the
Laws
of
God
,
and
Light
of
Nature
,
and
banish
them
out
of
the
World
;
bringing
confusion
and
destruction
into
all
Kingdoms
and
Families
:
Believe
Us
,
who
live
in
the
most
shameful
Neglect
of
seeking
after
Spiritual
Knowledge
,
and
yet
condemn
the
most
diligent
Searchers
into
it
for
ignorant
and
unwise
,
who
dispute
,
and
set
our selves
against
Religion
,
and
yet
never
learnt
,
nor
will
we
study
what
it
is
.
Is
not
this
the
truth
of
these
Atheists
and
scoffers
?
Their
true
portraicture
?
How
is
it
then
that
men
should
hearken
to
them
,
and
be
enticed
to
walk
in
their
ways
?
But
there
is
an
answer
for
it
;
't
is
owing
to
the
great
corruption
of
mans
nature
since
the
first
Apostacy
from
God
;
hence
proceeds
all
this
spiritual
solly
and
madness
.
't
is
hard
to
make
an
end
of
writing
against
such
a
generation
of
men
as
these
are
;
and
indeed
I
think
they
are
not
publickly
handled
as
they
ought
to
be
;
not
that
that
they
should
be
reviled
as
men
,
nay
many
of
them
are
persons
of
excellent
natural
parts
and
acquired
also
,
but
their
pernicious
and
abominable
principles
cannot
be
sufficiently
exposed
.
But
my
design
is
not
an
invective
,
but
only
to
answer
those
cavils
,
and
to
take
off
the
reproach
cast
upon
the
ever
blessed
God
,
and
Christian
Religion
,
especially
the
fundamental
principles
thereof
;
such
as
the
immortality
of
the
Soul
;
the
Judgment
to
come
;
Heaven
and
Hell
;
The
Divine
authority
of
the
Scriptures
the
being
and
providence
of
God
;
the
being
of
Spirits
,
Angels
good
and
bad
;
more
especially
the
fallen
Angels
,
those
wicked
Spirits
the
Devils
:
As
for
the
last
of
these
,
the
Sadduces
of
our
age
laugh
at
all
that
is
written
or
related
of
them
;
and
that
which
it
pleaseth
God
to
permit
as
a
singular
means
to
convince
an
unbelieving
World
,
they
labour
to
expose
to
contempt
and
derision
;
I
mean
not
only
the
diabolical
suggestions
,
and
the
temptations
of
those
wicked
Spirits
,
which
do
demonstrate
their
being
;
but
the
frequent
apparitions
which
are
made
by
Spirits
good
or
evil
;
This
they
cavil
at
above
all
the
rest
,
and
are
glad
to
meet
with
the
mention
of
such
things
,
as
though
thereby
they
should
make
a
great
advantage
,
and
triumph
over
the
truth
.
Now
for
the
sake
of
such
Unbelievers
,
and
also
for
others
who
are
at
a
loss
in
this
Point
,
though
I
will
not
enlarge
,
as
I
might
,
upon
this
Subject
,
yet
this
I
will
say
,
and
do
protest
before
God
,
I
lye
not
,
but
relate
a
serious
Truth
,
That
I
my self
have
seen
an
Apparition
,
in
the
Sense
,
of
which
I
am
writing
thereof
.
It
was
in
the
year
1684.
in
the
Month
of
June
,
and
in
the
clear
Daytime
,
while
I
was
in
the
open
Air
,
in
company
with
a
certain
young
Gentleman
:
And
this
was
strange
,
That
the
very
same
Person
and
my self
were
nearly
concerned
within
a
few
Days
,
in
a
matter
which
that
Apparition
was
evidently
a
Sign
and
Token
of
,
as
the
Effect
proved
.
The
thing
was
really
strange
,
that
I
should
be
joyned
with
him
in
that
Action
;
but
there
were
private
Reasons
accidentally
occasioning
it
.
Upon
seeing
this
Apparition
I
gave
Notice
thereof
immediately
,
and
satisfied
both
my self
and
others
,
that
it
was
no
Delusion
;
but
the
Event
put
all
out
of
doubt
within
a
Day
or
Two
after
.
That
it
was
really
so
,
That
I
saw
an
Apparition
,
I
know
as
truly
as
that
I
now
am
writing
thereof
.
It
had
this
Effect
upon
me
,
among
others
,
that
tho
I
never
doubted
of
the
Being
of
Angelical
Spirits
,
nor
of
Apparitions
,
upon
sundry
Occasions
,
yet
now
I
was
confirmed
in
that
behalf
,
and
enabled
ever
after
to
make
use
of
it
as
an
irrefragable
Testimony
for
the
Truth
,
being
my self
an
Eye-Witness
of
something
of
the
same
kind
;
and
it
pleased
God
that
it
hath
since
done
me
no
small
Service
,
in
discoursing
and
arguing
things
of
this
Nature
,
when
I
have
been
able
to
produce
this
,
and
some
other
like
Cases
,
which
have
fallen
under
my
own
personal
Knowledge
.
Yet
further
,
this
I
know
,
and
do
solemnly
aver
,
That
I
have
personally
known
an
House
(
to
say
no
more
)
troubled
with
Evil
Spirits
,
that
which
is
commonly
called
Haunted
.
In
such
an
one
I
have
lain
many
Nights
,
yea
,
Weeks
and
Months
,
and
suffered
that
Disturbance
which
there
was
usually
given
:
Not
guessing
at
such
a
Cause
,
I
was
without
any
Fear
upon
my
Spirits
,
but
what
I
think
might
ordinarily
befall
any
other
man
:
However
,
it
never
wrought
any
Confusion
and
Terrour
,
as
is
common
upon
the
foreknowledge
of
such
Cases
;
but
verily
thinking
that
all
proceeded
from
Robbers
,
and
such
Evil-disposed
persons
,
and
having
strength
sufficient
with
me
,
and
being
well
provided
against
such
Attempts
,
I
was
far
enough
from
being
daunted
;
but
still
sought
to
put
an
end
to
the
disturbance
,
but
in
vain
;
till
after
much
Vexation
,
and
many
Nights
broken
of
Natural
Rest
,
the
Occasion
was
Providentially
discovered
,
and
the
Trouble
ever
after
ceased
.
I
know
I
write
to
the
whole
World
,
and
in
a
Carping
and
Censorious
Age
,
and
it
will
be
no
wisdom
to
relate
every
circumstance
,
but
rather
be
sparing
,
because
I
write
not
for
Curiosity
,
but
Instruction
.
The
End
was
this
:
In
that
very
part
where
the
greatest
Disturbance
was
usually
given
,
and
the
Noises
mostly
heard
,
which
would
often
render
the
Mastiff-Dogs
very
fierce
,
which
I
heard
with
mine
own
Ears
many
times
,
and
could
think
no
other
but
that
,
as
the
Servants
cryed
out
,
The
House
was
beset
,
and
that
Door
would
be
broke
open
.
A
few
paces
from
the
same
,
when
the
foundations
were
laying
of
a
certain
building
,
the
bones
of
a
child
were
digged
up
by
the
workmen
,
and
sent
in
to
a
dear
Relation
of
mine
(
the
owners
wife
)
and
my self
dining
together
,
from
which
time
to
this
day
,
being
many
years
,
the
haunting
or
disturbance
hath
ceased
:
That
this
was
a
murdered
infant
is
as
clear
to
me
as
the
Sun
;
and
there
is
the
strongest
presumption
to
lay
it
to
the
person
of
whom
my
honoured
Relation
purchased
the
house
and
land
;
he
being
a
single
person
to
his
death
,
and
living
to
an
old
age
with
maid-servants
,
between
whom
fornication
was
in
all
likelihood
committed
and
murther
added
thereto
;
Upon
enquiry
of
the
neighbourhood
he
appeared
to
be
a
person
of
no
good
fame
but
I
could
never
trace
it
further
.
This
case
I
have
not
been
afraid
to
mention
upon
any
just
and
proper
occasion
,
nor
am
I
ashamed
now
to
publish
it
to
the
whole
world
.
I
pray
God
who
knows
the
truth
of
what
I
write
to
make
it
serviceable
to
those
who
shall
read
it
.
Much
hath
been
written
(
and
that
within
a
few
years
)
on
this
subject
;
I
cast
in
my
mite
,
and
may
say
,
I
presume
without
●●●sting
,
that
it
is
somewhat
more
than
others
have
done
before
me
.
For
I
know
not
one
of
those
learned
men
who
have
written
so
well
on
this
occasion
,
that
yet
have
written
of
their
own
personal
knowledge
,
at
least
in
two
such
cases
.
't
is
true
their
Collections
,
and
reports
are
beyond
all
doubt
(
unless
men
will
believe
nothing
but
what
they
know
of
themselves
,
and
give
the
lye
to
all
is
told
,
though
it
come
never
so
well
confirmed
)
but
what
I
offer
here
of
this
kind
,
is
delivered
upon
my
own
personal
knowledge
and
drawn
out
of
the
treasury
of
my
own
memory
,
helped
by
the
Diary
I
kept
at
this
time
and
many
years
before
.
But
it
is
time
to
conclude
,
having
proceeded
so
far
as
fully
answers
my
design
and
purpose
,
of
relating
some
matters
of
importance
to
Religion
,
and
arguing
from
the
same
in
its
cause
and
defence
.
The
Lord
open
the
eyes
of
the
blind
Atheists
,
and
profane
scoffers
and
mockers
;
yea
the
Lord
touch
their
hearts
that
they
may
acknowledge
the
truth
,
and
no
longer
be
the
advocates
of
all
manner
of
corrupt
principles
and
abominable
practices
.
To
the
wise
and
godly
I
submit
my
labours
,
protesting
(
once
more
)
that
I
have
written
nothing
(
willfully
at
least
)
but
what
is
the
naked
truth
,
as
I
shall
answer
it
to
God
the
searcher
of
all
hearts
,
and
the
righteous
Judge
of
the
World
;
for
whose
honour
and
glory
I
did
set
upon
the
work
;
and
God
forbid
that
I
should
speak
wickedly
for
him
,
who
is
the
God
of
truth
,
and
neither
loves
,
nor
needs
any
lye
;
who
hath
also
declared
,
that
he
will
punish
those
who
hate
the
truth
,
and
will
neither
receive
nor
obey
the
same
.
FINIS
.
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for
Tho
.
Parkhurst
,
at
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and
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near
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.
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above
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Reverend
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;
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.
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.
Watson
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Walbrook
.
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.
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of
Christ
.
On
the
130th
Psalm
.
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the
Trinity
.
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Mortification
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sin
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believers
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and
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with
sinful
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and
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.
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Temptation
.
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Rules
of
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.
These
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last
by
John
Owen
,
D.
D.
Heywoods
Baptismal
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renewed
▪
Grotius
of
Christ's
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,
in
English
.
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Revival
of
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,
i.e.
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the
Sacrament
.
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Early
Obedience
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Unity
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Wheels
,
in
three
Sermon
,
▪
Spiritual
Wisdom
improved
against
Temptation
.
The
Almost
Christian
discovered
.
All
Five
by
Mat
.
Mead
.
Consolation
for
the
afflicted
,
at
the
Funeral
of
Mr.
Edward
Rede
.
By
Tim
.
Rogers
,
M
A.
Calamy
▪
s
Godly
Mans
Ark
,
in
five
Sermons
,
his
Art
of
Divine
Meditation
.
Redemption
of
Time
,
the
Wisdom
and
Duty
of
Christians
in
Evil
Days
.
By
John
Wade
,
Minister
at
Hammersmith
.
Intercourses
of
Divine
Love
betwixt
Christ
and
his
Church
,
being
Sermons
on
the
1st
and
2d
Chapters
of
the
Chronicles
,
or
the
Song
of
Songs
.
Several
Discourses
of
actual
Providence
,
in
three
Parts
.
These
two
last
by
John
Collings
,
D.
D.
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Songs
,
or
Songs
of
praise
to
Almighty
God
on
several
Occasions
,
with
thirty
penitential
Crys
;
with
a
Poem
also
of
Dives
and
Lazarus
.
The
Midnight
Cry
,
a
Sermon
.
These
two
by
John
Mason
.
Mr.
Corbetts
Self-Employment
in
Secret
.
A
Treatise
of
the
Day
of
Judgment
:
By
Mr.
Sam
Lee
Minister
.
Husbandry
Spiritualized
.
A
Saint
indeed
.
A
Token
for
Mourners
.
All
these
three
by
Mr.
John
Flavel
Minister
of
the
Gospel
.
Satan
sifting
,
or
the
Oyl
of
Joy
for
the
Spirit
of
Sadness
.
Whites
Little
Book
for
Little
Children
.
The
rare
Jewel
of
Christian
Contentment
with
four
useful
Discourses
by
Mr.
Jer
.
Burroughs
.
An
Earnest
Call
to
Family
Duties
being
the
substance
of
Eighteen
Sermons
by
Sam
.
Slater
.
Hymns
for
the
Sacrament
,
composed
mostly
out
the
New
Testament
.
Theological
Discourses
and
Sermons
on
several
occasions
.
By
John
Wallis
D.
D.
The
Truest
and
Largest
account
of
the
late
Earthquake
in
Jamaica
,
June
7.
1692.
from
a
Reverend
Divine
there
,
to
his
Friend
in
London
.
The
best
way
to
mend
the
world
by
perswading
the
Rising
Generation
to
an
Early
and
Serious
Practice
of
Piety
.
Both
by
Samuel
Peck
,
Lecturer
of
Ipswich
.
A
Sermon
preach'd
at
the
Funeral
of
the
Reverend
Mr.
Tho
.
Shewell
,
M.
A.
and
Minister
of
the
Gospel
in
Coventry
.
These
two
last
by
William
Tongue
,
Minister
,
&c.
A
Discourse
concerning
Old
Age
,
tending
to
the
Instruction
,
Caution
,
and
Comfort
of
Aged
Persons
.
By
Richard
Steel
,
A.
M.
A
Sermon
at
the
Funeral
of
the
Worshipful
John
Symmonds
,
late
of
Great
Yeldham
in
Essex
,
Esq
;
by
John
Brooke
,
M.
A
and
Rector
there
.
A
Vindication
of
the
Church
of
Scotland
being
an
Answer
to
five
Pamphlets
;
by
Dr.
Rule
.
A
Sermon
of
the
absolute
Necessity
of
Family
Duties
,
Preached
to
the
United
Parishes
of
St.
Mary
Woolnoth
,
and
St
Mary
Wool-Church-Haw
,
in
Lombard
Street
.
His
Farewel
Sermon
.
These
Two
by
David
Jones
,
Student
of
Christ-Church
,
Oxon
.
A
brief
Tract
on
the
7th
Commandment
,
wherein
is
discovered
the
Cause
of
all
our
Controversies
about
the
Sabbath-Day
,
and
the
means
of
Reconciling
them
.
Recommended
by
the
Reverend
Dr.
Bates
,
and
Mr.
John
How
.
Convivium
Caeleste
:
A
plain
and
familiar
Discourse
concerning
the
Lords
Supper
,
shewing
at
once
the
Nature
of
that
Sacrament
;
as
also
the
right
way
of
preparing
our selves
for
the
receiving
of
it
:
In
which
are
also
considered
those
Exceptions
which
men
usually
bring
to
excuse
their
not
partaking
of
it
.
A
Sermon
preached
before
the
King
and
Queen
at
White-hall
,
Nov.
5.
1692.
These
Two
by
Richard
Lord
Bishop
of
Bath
and
Wells
.
The
Confirming
Work
of
Religion
,
and
its
great
things
made
plain
by
their
primary
Evidences
and
Demonstrations
;
whereby
the
meanest
in
the
Church
may
soon
be
made
able
to
render
a
Rational
Account
of
their
Faith
.
The
Poor
Man's
Help
,
and
Young
Man's
Guide
:
containing
,
1.
Doctrinal
Instructions
for
the
right
informing
of
his
Judgment
.
2.
Practical
Directions
for
the
general
course
of
his
Life
.
3.
Particular
advices
for
the
well
managing
of
every
day
with
reference
to
his
natural
actions
:
Civil
Employments
,
Necessary
Recreations
,
Religious
Duties
,
particularly
Prayer
,
Publick
in
the
Congregation
,
Private
in
the
Family
,
Secret
in
the
Closet
,
Reading
the
Holy
Scriptures
,
Hearing
the
Word
Preached
,
and
Receiving
the
Lords
Supper
.
By
Will
.
Burkit
.
M.
A.
of
Pembrook
hall
in
Cambridge
,
and
now
Vicar
of
Dedham
in
Essex
,
and
Author
of
the
Practical
Discourse
of
Infant
Baptism
.
Advice
to
an
only
Child
,
or
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to
all
young
Persons
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and
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and
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.
Written
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Eminent
and
Judicious
Divine
,
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