[ 328] A sinfull man is a senslesse man.
TAke a dead man,* 1.1 and put fire to his flesh, pinch him with pincers, prick him with niedles, he feels it not; scourge him, and he cries not; showt in his ear, he hears not; threaten him, or speak him fair, he regards not, he answers not. This is the condition of one that is spiritually dead in sin, let the judgmen••s of God, and terrours of the Law,* 1.2 be laid home to his conscience; let the flames of hell-fire flash in his soul, he regards it not, he is Sermon-proof, and judgment-proof; he hears of judgments abroad, and sees judgments on others; nay, let judgments come home to his own doors, yet he thinks, all is well, like Solomon's fool, he out-stands all reproof; let the Minister hit him never so home, They have stricken me, (saies he) but I was not sick,* 1.3 they have beaten me, but they might as well have beaten the aire. Such, and so deplorable is the sad condition of every senslesse sinner.