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2. It now follows to show the truth of the Doctrine, or evidence that a Conscience thus burdened, is a dismal distress. For which let the• three Considerations be laid together.

2. It now follows to shew the truth of the Doctrine, or evidence that a Conscience thus burdened, is a dismal distress. For which let the• three Considerations be laid together.

1. From the nature of Guilt. The right consideration of what is in it, will make it appear a distressing thing. We have before considered what it is, and there are three things in it which afford matter of distress to the man.

1. The consideration of the penalty it self, which by is bound to undergo, i. e. All the miseries that are contained in the Threatening. Guilt binds upon the man all the Curses that are written in the Book of God; and what a terrible burden is this? there are all the sorrows that men are exposed to in this life, which are uncountable and astonishing: and there are all the punishments in another World, to be suffered in the place prepared o• ⟨p. 135⟩purpose for the setting forth the triumph of Revenging Justice, over those whom God hateth, and will himself be to them a Consuming Fire,; and the Emphasis of it is in the extremity of it, a Fire unquenchable, a Worm that dieth not; and therefore called, Everlasting Burnings, Isa. 33. 14