The truly blessed man

2. The pressure that men have been under by reason of one sin laid upon them. God sometimes, by Conscience, chargeth one particular sin upon a man, and when he doth it home, it is too much for him, especially when it is some great and horrid sin; or if the Conscience doth so resent it; and we find not that Cain was in distress on account of any other sin but his Murder, or Judas for any thing besides his betraying his innocent Master; and yet how Tragical was it to them? what then must it be to be under the load of innumerable Sins? to have the first great transgression charged on them, and that Original Sin which hath all abominations in it, and ⟨p. 50⟩a life full of uncountable and aggravated actual prevarications: certainly every one must add its proportionable weight.

3. The distress that hath been upon Gods own Children, when they have been under the dread of Guilt. I shall have occasion to speak of this in the following verses; a touch may here suffice. It is certain, that Guilt, in the proper leg• notion of […] is removed from all Gods Children […] in what sense they may be said to be guilty, is • matter of a••er enquiry; but this is certain, th•• they many times have a sad apprehension of Guil• upon them, and it is a sinking thing to them, and they cannot tell how to stand under it: they cry out of it terribly, it is a burden too heavy, and makes them to roar, Psal. 38.4, 6, 8. and how had David his bones broken by this weight falling upon them? Psal. 51.8. yea, how doth it make him to cry out to be delivered from this Guilt, vers• 14. and what was it but our. Guilt charged o […] Lord Christ, that made him in such a bloody agony?