The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

What a woeful spectacle was that poor wretch possessed with the legion? Would it not have pitied thine heart to have seen him among the tombs, cutting, and wounding of himself? Mark 5. 5. This is thy case, such is thy work. Every stroke is a thrust at thine heart. 1 Tim. 6. 10. Conscience indeed is now asleep; but when death and judgment shall bring thee to thy senses, then thou wilt feel the raging smart and anguish of every wound. The convinced sinner is a sensible instance of the miserable bondage of sin. Conscience flies upon him, and tells him what the end of these things will be• and yet such a slave is he to his lusts, that on he must, though he see it will be his endless perdition: and when the temptation comes, lust gets the bit in his mouth, breaks all the cords of his vows and promises, and carries him head-long to his own destruction.

What a woful spectacle was that poor wretch possessed with the legion? Would it not have pitied thine heart to have seen him among the tombs, cutting, and wounding of himself? Mark 5. 5. This is thy case, such is thy work. Every stroke is a thrust at thine heart. 1 Tim. 6. 10. Conscience indeed is now asleep; but when death and judgment shall bring thee to thy senses, then thou wilt feel the raging smart and anguish of every wound. The convinced sinner is a sensible instance of the miserable bondage of sin. Conscience flies upon him, and tells him what the end of these things will be• and yet such a slave is he to his lusts, that on he must, though he see it will be his endless perdition: and when the temptation comes, lust gets the bit in his mouth, breaks all the cords of his vows and promises, and carries him head-long to his own destruction.