Now then attend. Set thine heart unto all that I shall testify unto thee in this day; for it is not a vain thing, it is your life, Deut. 32. 46. This is the end of all that hath been spoken hitherto, to bring you to set upon turning, and making use of Gods means for your conversion. I would not trouble you, nor torment you before the time with the forethoughts of your eternal misery, but in order to your making your escape. Were you shut up under your present misery, without remedy, it were but mercy (as one speaks) to let you alone, that you might take in that little poor comfort, that you are capable of here in this world. But you may yet be happy: If you do not wilfully refuse the means of your recovery. Behold, I hold open the door unto you, arise take your flight; I set the way of life before you, walk in it, and you shall live and not die, Deut 30. 19. Jer. 9. 16. It pities me to think you should be your own Murderers, and throw your selves headlong, when God and men cry out to you, as Peter, in another Case, to his Master, Spare thy self. A noble Virgin, that attended the Court of Spain, was wickedly ravished by the King and hereupon exciting the Duke her Father to revenge, he called in the Moors to his help, who when they had executed his design, miserably wasted and spoiled the Country, which this Virgin laying so exceedingly to heart, shut her self up in a Tower belonging to her Father's house, and desired her Father and Mother might be called forth; and bewailing to them her own wretchedness, that she should have occasioned so much misery and desolation to her Country, ⟨p. 114⟩for the satisfying of her revenge, she told them she was resolved to be avenged upon her self. Her Father and Mother besought her to pity her self and them, but nothing could prevail, but she took her leave of them, and threw her self off the battlements, and so perished before their faces.
Now then attend. Set thine heart unto all that I shall testifie unto thee in this day; for it is not a vain thing, it is your life, Deut. 32. 46. This is the end of all that hath been spoken hitherto, to bring you to set upon turning, and making use of Gods means for your conversion. I would not trouble you, nor torment you before the time with the forethoughts of your eternal misery, but in order to your making your escape. Were you shut up under your present misery, without remedy, it were but mercy (as one speaks) to let you alone, that you might take in that little poor comfort, that you are capable of here in this world. But you may yet be happy: If you do not wilfully refuse the means of your recovery. Behold, I hold open the door unto you, arise take your flight; I set the way of life before you, walk in it, and you shall live and not die, Deut 30. 19. Ier. 9. 16. It pities me to think you should be your own Murderers, and throw your selves headlong, when God and men cry out to you, as Peter, in another Case, to his Master, Spare thy self. A noble Virgin, that attended the Court of Spain, was wickedly ravished by the King and hereupon exciting the Duke her Father to revenge, he called in the Moors to his help, who when they had executed his design, miserably wasted and spoiled the Country, which this Virgin laying so exceedingly to heart, shut her self up in a Tower belonging to her Father's house, and desired her Father and Mother might be called forth; and bewailing to them her own wretchedness, that she should have occasioned so much misery and desolation to her Country, ⟨p. 114⟩for the satisfying of her revenge, she told them she was resolved to be avenged upon her self. Her Father and Mother besought her to pity her self and them, but nothing could prevail, but she took her leave of them, and threw her self off the battlements, and so perished before their faces.
