[ 1471] The extream Folly of Sin.
SUch is the foolishnesse of a Frantick Man, (the disease being got into the Cock-loft of Reason) that when he is in greatest misery, he seems to be as one that had no misery at all;* 1.1 and when most oppressed with the strength of his ma∣lady, laughing and smiling as if he were not oppressed with any disease at all: So is it with him, whose Soul is (as it were) drench't in a deluge of Sin, when he is extreamly miserable, and that the strength of his Sins are able to throw him down to destruction;* 1.2 yet you shall see him like Solomon's Fool go to the cor∣rection of the Stocks full of jollity; such was the state of Ierusalem, not dis∣cerning the time of their Visitation,* 1.3 that when Christ wept for them, they could not do so much as throw out one sob of sorrow for themselves; such too was the condition of the old World, nothing but Mirth and merriment, marrying and giving in Marriage,* 1.4 till the Floud overtook them, and such we may see to be the daily custome of all desperate Sinners, such as walk with lifted up coun∣tenances, and hugge themselves in the perpetration of their wicked designs, when destruction is at the very pits brim ready to overwhelm them.