SECT. VII.* 1.1
SEcondly, It will torment them also to think of the possibility that once they were in of obtaining it. Though all things con∣sidered there was an impossibility of any other event then what did befall; yet the thing in it self was possible, and their will was left to act without constraint. Then they will remember, The time was when I was in as faire possibilitie of the Kingdome as others: I was set up on the stage of the world; If I had plaid my part wisely and faithfully, now I might have had possession of the inheritance: I might have been amongst yonder blessed Saints, who am now tormented with these damned fiends! The Lord did set before me life and death, and having chosen death, I deserve to suffer it; The prize was once held out before me If I had run well, I might have obtained it, If I had striven, I might have had the mastery, If I had fought valiantly, I had been crowned.