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Two treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat…Tvvo treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat…
Two treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat of the flesh and spirit.Tvvo treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat of the flesh and spirit.
Cambridge: printed by John Legate printer to the University of Cambridge. 1593., 1593Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legate printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge. 1593., 1593
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His misery within him is twofold. The first is a guilty conscience: which is a very hell unto the ungodly man. For he is like a silly prisoner, and the conscience like a Jailer which follows him at the heels, and dogs him whither soever he goes, to the end he may see and observe all his sayings and doings. It is like a register, that sits always with the pen in his hand, to record and enrol all his wickedness for everlasting memory. It is a little judge, that sits in the middle of a man even in his very heart, to arraign him in this life for his sins as he shall be arraigned at the last judgement. ⟨p. 41⟩Therefore the pangs, terrors, and fears of all impenitent persons, are as it were, certain flashings of the flames of hell fire. The guilty conscience makes a man like him, which lies on a bed that is too strait and the1 covering too short: who would with all his heart sleep, but can not. Belshazzar when he2 was in the middest of his mirth, seeing the hand-writing on the wall, was smitten with great fear, so as his countenance changed, & his knees smote together.
His miserie within him is twofold. The first is a guiltie conscience: which is a very hell vnto the ungodly man. For hee is like a silly prisoner, and the conscience like a Iayler which followes him at the heeles, and dogges him whither soever he goes, to the end he may see and observe all his sayings and doings. It is like a register, that sits alwaies with the pen in his hand, to record and inrole all his wickednesse for everlasting memory. It is a litle iudge, that sittes in the middle of a man even in his very heart, to arraigne him in this life for his sinnes as he shall be arraigned at the last iudgement. ⟨p. 41⟩Therfore the pangs, terrors, and feares of all impenitent persons, are as it were, certaine flashings of the flames of hell fire. The guiltie conscience makes a man like him, which lies on a bedde that is too strait and the1 covering too short: who would with all his heart sleepe, but can not. Belshazzar when he