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Object. 3 Another sort there are that secure themselves with this, that they have stomach and courage in them, and therefore they doubt not but they shall stand undaunted and unappalled in the midst of all extremities.

Obiect. 3 Another sort there are that secure themselues with this, that they haue stomach and courage in them, and therefore they doubt not but they shall stand vndaunted and vnappalled in the midst of all extremities.

Ans. But these stout-hearted champions shall find, that their hearts will fail them, when the mouth of their conscience beginneth once to be opened against ⟨image 51⟩them, and to lay their sins new and old in order before them.

Ans. But these stout-hearted champions shall finde, that their hearts wil faile them, when the mouth of their conscience beginneth once to be opened against ⟨image 51⟩them, and to lay their sinnes new and old in order before them.

For what saith the Prophet Zephany? In the great ¹day of the Lords wrath, the strong man shall cry bitterly. Now crying is an argument of great perplexity and anguish, and of baseness of mind, when it proceedeth from outward causes; and yet the Prophet saith, that the strong men, and such as did profess fortitude, should cry, and that bitterly: and the more courageous they had been in sin, the more cowardly they should be when the Lord did visit them for sin.