A treatise on comforting afflicted consciences - The Digital Puritan

390 AFFLICTED CONSCIENCES.from thy vilest venom, this spiritual good which I gatherfrom thy devilish spite, should make thee weary of thisway, and desist from troubling me. I trust in my God itwill shortly cause thee to cast away this weapon, andquit the field quite. For thou ever infinitely hatest andhinderest all thou canst the glory of God, all exercise andincrease of grace, and the welfare of my poor soul, whichby accident and his sanctifying power, who ever turns allthings to the best to them that love him, are all happily advanced,furthered, and enlarged by this raging and pestilentrancour of thine." And who would not think, were not the incredibledepth of thy malice and madness equally unfathomable bythe wit of man, but that thou shouldst the rather give over,because these Satanical suggestions to me that resists arebut crosses and corrections ; but in thee, most outrageousand execrable blasphemies, which will mightily hereafteradd to the heaviness and horror of thine everlasting chainsof darkness and damnation ' at the judgment of the greatday.'"CHARLES WOOD AND SON, PRINTERS,Poppin's Court, Fleet Street.