The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…

2. To be full of shame and fear: Thus are men in debt, ¹desirous to lie latitant, and not to be seen, Grave vocabulum debitorum, said Ambrose, The name of debts is very dreadful and terrible. Hence Ambrose speaketh of some, who for the shame and distress thereof, have made away themselves, fearing more opprobrium vitae, then mortis periculum, the reproach of life, then the punishment of death. Suidas speaks of a Proverb in lit. A. A [Greek or Hebrew], Once red with blushing at the time of borrowing, and afterwards ten times pale for fear of paying, Canis latrat, & cor tuum palpitat, Ambros. de Tob. cap. 7. The dog doth but bark, and thy heart feareth an Arrest: and if men have been thus perplexed about worldly debts, when yet death would at last release them, how much more may men be afraid of these spiritual debts? There was a certain Roman died in a vast sum of debts, which in his life time he concealed, and after his death, when his goods were to be sold, Augustus the Emperor sent to buy his pillow he lay upon, because saith he, I hope that would make me sleep, on which a man so much indebted could take his ease. It is much that we who have so many debts spiritual, can sleep, or eat, or drink, till we see them discharged ⟨p. 108⟩by Christ. Oh that every natural man should not like Cain fear every thing would damn him!

2. To be full of shame and fear: Thus are men in debt, ¹desirous to lie latitant, and not to be seen, Grave vocabulum debitorum, said Ambrose, The name of debts is very dreadfull and terrible. Hence Ambrose speaketh of some, who for the shame and distresse thereof, have made away themselves, fearing more opprobrium vitae, then mortis periculum, the reproach of life, then the punishment of death. Suidas speaks of a Proverb in lit. A. A 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Once red with blushing at the time of borrowing, and afterwards ten times pale for fear of paying, Canis latrat, & cor tuum palpitat, Ambros. de Tob. cap. 7. The dog doth but bark, and thy heart feareth an Arrest: and if men have been thus perplexed about worldly debts, when yet death would at last release them, how much more may men be afraid of these spiritual debts? There was a certain Roman died in a vast sum of debts, which in his life time he concealed, and after his death, when his goods were to be sold, Augustus the Emperor sent to buy his pillow he lay upon, because saith he, I hope that would make me sleep, on which a man so much indebted could take his ease. It is much that we who have so many debts spiritual, can sleep, or eat, or drink, till we see them discharged