Insensibility of Sin, the sadnesse thereof. [ 1503]
IT is reported,* 1.1 That the Grecians had an Hill so high above that Region of the ayr, where winds are bred, that he that had drawn his name in the ashes of the last years Sacrifices, might at the next year of his return, find the letters unblown away: But thou, O Man, whosoever thou art, if thy heart be so calmly seated, that the Devil may at the same instant, read in the sluttish dust of it, the Sins which long ago he wrote there, if no Thunder have cleared the ayre about thee, or any wind scattered those guilty characters, if all be hush'd,* 1.2 silence and sleep and rest about the Conscience (like the sad Country of the Sybarites, where not so much as a Cock, the Remembrance of Saint Peter, was left alive to trouble them); If so, know then, that so long as thou art thus senselesse of thy sins, that thy Soul is utterly benu••'d, thy God hath gi∣ven thee over, he will not so much as favour thee with a frown, or blesse thee with his anger.