Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace…

more terrible some way then if he should say, famine, fire, sword, pestilence, and wild beasts fail on the man, he is joined to his Idols (and so straitly joined that he will listen to no challenges of his Conscience checking him for maintaining the conjunction; nor to any suggestion of it, persuading him to divorce from them, or to uncle any of the knots of that cursed conjunction) let him alone, let him sin on, and by sinning treasure up to himself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgement o' God. Beside that such a silent, sleeping and stupefied Conscience through often trading challenges under foot, will at last waken and flee in the ungodly mans face, and as a fierce mastiff Dog, or ravening Wolf take him by the Throat, and become his Burrio and Tormentor and perhaps, for eviting the trouble and terror of it, put him (though a poor and pitiful, desperate and distracted shift) to be his own murderer and executioner; or if it should keep silence to death, and even then not disquiet him, yet it will in Hell, as a never dying worm gnaw the heart of him, and as a ravenous vulture tear out, as it were his very bowels; and by its yelling and roaring, by its biting and renting the very c•ul of his heart, make him a hell to himself in hell, and so make a double hell to him: Alas! even the godly themselves may by somewhat of this guilt, raise great storms of trouble and disquiet in their own Consciences.

more terrible some way then if he should say, famine, fire, sword, pestilence, and wilde beasts fail on the man, he is joyned to his Idols (and so straitly joyned that he will listen to no challenges of his Conscience checking him for maintaining the conjunction; nor to any suggestion of it, perswading him to divorce from them, or to un•le any of the knots of that cursed conjunction) let him alone, let him sin on, and by sinning treasure up to himself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgement o' God. Beside that such a silent, sleeping and stupified Conscience through often trading challenges under foot, will at last waken and flee in the ungodly mans face, and as a fierce mastive Dog, or ravening Wolf take him by the Throat, and become his Burrio and Tormenter and perhaps, for eviting the trouble and terror of it, put him (though a poor and pitiful, desperat and distracted shift) to be his own murderer and executioner; or if it should keep silence to death, and even then not disqulet him, yet it will in Hell, as a never dying worm gnaw the heart of him, and as a ravenous vulture tear out, as it were his very bowels; and by its yelling and roaring, by its biting and renting the very cul of his heart, make him a hell to himself in hell, and so make a double hell to him: Alas! even the godly themselves may by somewhat of this guilt, raise great storms of trouble and disquiet in their own Consciences.