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Rh ſo they fall in with the world again.

3ly. The ſhame that attends Religion, lies alſo as a block in their way; they are proud and haughty, and Religion in their eye is low and contemptible: Therefore when they have loſt their ſenſe of Hell and wrath to come, they return again to their former courſe.

4ly. Guilt, and to meditate terrour, are grievous to them, they like not to fee their miſery before they come into it. Though perhaps the fight of it firſt, if they loved that fight, might make them flie whither the righteous flie and are ſafe; but becauſe they do, as I hinted before, even ſhun the thoughts of guilt and terrour, therefore, when once they are rid of their awakenings about the terrors and wrath of God, they harden their hearts gladly, and chuſe ſuch ways as will harden them more and more.

Chr. ''You are pretty near the buſineſs, for the bottom of all is, for want of a change in their mind and will. And therefore they are but like the Fellon that ſtandeth before the Judge, he quakes and trembles, and ſeems to'' Rh