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Peace of Conscience, not wrought out by merry Company or drinking. [ 1648]

SOme there are that if they be in an ague,* 1.1 or the like distemperature, will drink hot waters, or good store of Sack to prevent their cold ••it and out-burn Nature; but alasse, all the good that comes of it, is onely that they fall into a burning Fever, and perhaps consume their dust into ashes: So there are such prophane wretches, that if their Conscience alarums them, if their Spirit trou∣bles them, or if crosses multiply upon them, think there is no other way to wind out of the Devils fingers but by throwing themselves into his arms,* 1.2 making themselves twice more the Children of the Devil then they were before; they must needs to the Tavern, or to the Alehouse, seek out some boon Companions, drink away their sorrow; but had Zimri peace that slew his Master? Damning a Soul cannot surely be the way to save it.* 1.3

Notes

• * 1.1

  Colling•• 5. Lessons.
• * 1.2

  Matth. 23. 15.
• * 1.3

  2 Kings 9. 31.