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ence cannot be kept, Efay 57.11. There is 

 ft ofc ace to the wicked, faith my God. Guilt 

 is an obligation to Punifliment ; but an ob- 

 ligation to Puniflim en t infers an expectation 

 of it ; ,and vvhofoever expefts it, doth re- 

 ally fuffer it : as Seneca excellently, T^at 

 poenas quifquis expettat ; quifquis aittem me- 

 ruit) expert at : That man doth really fuffer 

 punijhmentj who experts it : But whofoever 

 hath deferred it, expeffs it. Were it not 

 for diverfion , and non-attendance to his 

 Condition, a wicked Man would carry a 

 continual Hell in his Bread ; there is there- 

 fore (as I have noted elfewhere) but a 

 thought's diftance between him and Hell : 

 His only fecurity is in being a ftranger to 

 himfelf. This, (one would think) fliould 

 be the moft powerful curb imaginable to 

 reftrain Men from Sin, and the moft ef- 

 feftual Perfuafive in the World to a holy 

 Life ; That thofe that live in Sin cannot 

 think upon their Condition without fear 

 and difquiet ; efpecially thofe who are guil- 

 ty of fecret Crimes, who are liable to thofe 

 more fevere Lafhes,and affright ing-Rebukes 

 of Confcience. Thefe Men are not able 

 to hear fuch Sins reproved without blufh- 

 ing and confufion? and inward trouble of 

 Mind; 



Rubet 



