The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

2. Old debts vex most, the delay of payment increases them by Use upon Use, and the return of them being unexpected, a person is least provided for them. We count old sores breaking forth incurable. Augustus ⟨p. 361⟩wondered at a person's sleeping quietly that was very much in debt, and sent for his pillow, saying, Surely there is some strange virtue in it, that makes him rest so secure. My brethren, if one debt unto Gods Law be more then the whole Creation can satisfy, what do any of us mean to rest secure with so vast a burden upon our Consciences and account: O! take heed thou beest not surprised and arrested with old Debts. O! thou rememberest former iniquities against us.¹

2. Old debts vex most, the delay of payment increases them by Use upon Use, and the return of them being unexpected, a person is least provided for them. We count old sores breaking forth incurable. Augustus ⟨p. 361⟩wondered at a person's sleeping quietly that was very much in debt, and sent for his pillow, saying, Surely there is some strange vertue in it, that makes him rest so secure. My brethren, if one debt unto Gods Law be more then the whole Creation can satisfie, what do any of us mean to rest secure with so vast a burden upon our Consciences and account: O! take heed thou beest not surprized and arrested with old Debts. O! thou remembrest former iniquities against us.¹

1. 1Psal. 79.8.

3. God will call over and charge thy sins upon thee, when all the sweet is gone, Thou makest a shift to swallow the hook with pleasure when 'tis covered with the sweet bait; O! but when that's digested, or disgorged, and the naked hook piercing and raking thy heart, what wilt thou do then! O! how bitter is the Pill when all the sugar is melted off. Now this will be thy case; Job found but a taste of it, and O! how he cries out,