104 A PERSUASIVE to 

 Courfes without check or remorfe. I an- 

 fwer, That fuch Men indeed, who long 

 refill the Grace of God, he is pleafed at 

 hit to withdraw it from them, and give 

 them up to a reprobate Mind, to do things 

 not convenient ; yet is not their condition 

 the better for this ; But this fenfelefnefs or 

 ftupidity is a more dangefous and incura- 

 ble Difeafe, anfwering to a Lethargy, or 

 Apoplexy in the Body. 



Neither yet do the Troubles of Mind 

 arifmg from m evil Confcience, determine 

 in Death, but continue for ever. This is 

 that Worm which dieth not ; a fad reflefti- 

 on upon our own defperate madnefs and 

 folly in leading fuch wicked Lives, as have 

 brought this Mifery upon us ; and a per- 

 petual indignation againft, and condemna- 

 tion of our felves. 



I have often wondred that the very Hea- 

 thens, who had no clear Revelation of a 

 future Eitate after this Life ended, nor any 

 more than an ancient Tradition of Rewards 

 and Punifhments then to be received or 

 fufFered, accordingly as Men had lived vir- 

 tuous or wicked Lives fhould be fo terrified 

 with a fenfe of guilt ; and that the confci- 

 oufnefs of fecret Crimes fliould be fo grie- 

 vous and infupportable to them, arming their 



Minds 



