a HOLY LIFE. 



Minds againft themfelves and making them 

 their own Tormentors, as the Poet ex- 

 prefles it, 



6)uos diri c-onfcia fatti 



Mens habet attonitos^ & fur do verbere cxdit^ 

 Qc cult urn quatiente ammo tor tore f age Hum. 



I cannot but think that this great terrour 

 and anxiety of Mind attending the confci- 

 oufnefs of any heinous Sin, is more than 

 the effeft of an expedition of punifhment, 

 grounded only upon an ancient Tradition ; 

 but that the fenfe of a connexion between 

 Sin and Punifliment is deeply imprinted up- 

 on the Soul of Man, by the Finger of God ; 

 and is one great Argument of the exiftence 

 of a Deity. 



Againll what we have faid concerning 

 the Happinefs that attends the godly in this 

 prefent State, it may be objefted: Is it not 

 faid in Scripture, Tfal. 34.19. Many are the 

 afflictions of the right eoiu. And do we 

 not read in the Hebrews^ Chap. 11.37. of 

 fome who had trial of bonds and imprifon- 

 ments^ who were ft one d^ fawn in funder^ 

 tempted^ jlain with the fword^ wandred a- 

 botit in Sheeps-skins and Goats-skins^ being 

 deflitute y afflittedy tormented, of whom the 



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