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Title:  Instructions for a right comforting afflicted consciences with speciall antidotes against some grievous temptations: delivered for the most part in the lecture at Kettering in North-hampton-shire: by Robert Bolton ...
Author: Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.
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Saee dixit infelicissi∣mus Spira se invidere Caino, Saulo & Iudae. Ibid. pag. 31.Optate se in loco Iudae & Caini esse. Ibid. p. 38.Ex ill hr imsit Des tu cor eus er∣mm crdentem, ig∣nem iextingthilem, ut horrine, consine, dspratione ò re∣plretur. Qi vermis & igns nunquam ex∣ude derelique∣rant, deteri∣ori in quàm si separat à cor∣pore animà, cum Iuda, Caino & caeteris dam∣natis esset: desiderans se loco morui & damnati ese potius, corpore vi∣vere.. pag. 13.Asserebat, vrmem il∣lum rodentem, & ig∣nem inextinctam ita cordis penetralia exe∣dere, & adurere, sit deterior sa qua vel Iudae, & quiem ma se am mort dam∣nati esse, qum in ha∣vita . Nicol. Laurent. in Aleipharmaco adversus desperato∣nis pestem. pag 31.Cain, Saul and Iudas: wishing rather any of their roomes, in the Dungeon of the damned, then to have his poore heart so rent in pieces with such raging terrors, & fiery desperations upon his Bed of death. Whereupon at another time beeing fturos post hantiam cruciatus acerbiores, aut sse quidem, longe durio∣ra, & expetere, ac desiderae∣re, nihil ipsi gravis pertimescendum sciret. Ibid. pag. 86. asked, Whether Hee feared more fearefull torments after this life: Yes, said Hee: But I desire nothing more, then to bee in that place, where I shall expect no more. Expectation, as it seemes of fu∣ture, did infinitely aggravate and enrage His already intolerable torture.5. The Heathens, who had no fuller sight of the foulenesse of sinne, or more smarting sense of divine vengeance for it, then the light of naturall conscience was able to afford and represent unto them; yet were woont in fiction to shadow out in some sort, and inti∣mate unto us, the insufferable extremities of a minde troubled in this kinde; by hellish furies, following ma∣lefactors with burning fire-brands, and flames of tor∣ture: What understanding then is able to conceive, or tongue to report, in what case that sinfull conscience must needs bee, when it is once awakened; which be¦sides, the notions of naturall light, hath also, the full Sun of Gods sacred Word, and that pure Eye, which is ten thousand times brighter then the Sunne, and cannot looke upon iniquity, to irradiate and enrage it to the height of guiltinesse, and depth of horrour? Both heart and tongue; Man and Angell must let that alone for ever. For none can take the true estimate of this imme∣surable spirituall misery, but hee that can comprehend the length, and breadth of that infinite unresistable wrath, which once implacably enkindled in the bo∣some of God, burnes to the very bottome of Hell, and 0