a HOLY LIFE. ij 



fo that we cannot but condemn our felves 

 for doing any thing tihat is diflioneft or un- 

 juft : Se judice nemo nocens abfolvitur : No 

 nocent perfon is abfolved, himfelf being 

 Judge. Nor can any terrour or torment 

 acquit us from blame, if to avoid it we do 

 any vile or diihoneft aftion. But on the 

 contrary, if we refolutely flick to that 

 which is good, whatever we fuffer for it, 

 we fatisfy our own Confciences, and re- 

 joice in having done fo, and gaia the ap- 

 probation and applaufe of all Men. The 

 Evil of Sin is greater , and more to be a- 

 voided than the Evil of Pain or Suffering,. 

 tho 7 that be a great Evil too ; and that man 

 be far from being happy, who labours un- 

 der extreme Bodily Pain, efpecially if with- 

 out hope of deliverance : Such a Man's ve- 

 ry Being would be a Burthen to him ; it 

 being a true faying, Tr aflat non e/e quant 

 miferum effe : Better not to be, than to be 

 miferable. 



But our gracious God hath not put us 

 off with fuch a Reward as this ; (which 

 notwithftanding the Apoftle faith of the 

 Chriftians of his time, That if in this life 

 only they had hope, they would be of all men 

 the mofl miferable :) but hath promifed to 

 recompenfe our Obedience with Eternal 



Life 



