SECT. V.
5. HEre is presupposed,* 1.1 not onely a distance from this Rest, but also the true knowledg of this distance: If a man have lost his way, and know it not, he seeks not to return; If he lose his gold, and know it not, he seeks it not. Therefore they that never knew they were without God, never yet enjoyed him; and they that never knew they were naturally and actually in the way to Hell, did never yet know the way to Heaven. Nay, there will not onely be a knowledg of this distance, and lost estate, but also affections answerable: Can a man be brought to finde himself hard by the brink of hell, and not tremble? or to finde he hath lost his God, and his Soul, and not cry out, I am undone? Or, can such a stupid Soul be so recovered? This is the sad case of many thou∣sands; and the reason why so few obtain this Rest: They will not be convinced, or made sensible, that they are, in point of title, distant from it; and, in point of practice, contrary to it. They have lost their God, their Souls, their Rest, and do not know it; nor will beleeve him that tells them so. Who ever travelled towards a place, which he thought he was at already? or sought for that which he knew not he had lost? The whole need not the Physici∣an, but they that are sick, Mat. 9.12.