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Num_32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
Ver. 23. Be sure your sin will find you out.] The guilt will haunt you at heels, as a bloodhound, and the punishment will overtake you, as it did that Popish priest in Lancashire, who being followed by one that found his glove, with a desire to restore it him, but pursued inwardly with a guilty conscience, leapt over a hedge, plunged into a mirey pit behind it, unseen and unthought of, wherein he was drowned. Or as it did that other priest, who, having escaped the fall of Blackfriars, A.D. 1623, where two of his fellow shavelings, {a} with about a hundred more, perished, and taking water, with purpose to sail into Flanders, was cast away, with some others, under London Bridge, the boat being overturned. {b}
{a} A contemptuous epithet for a tonsured ecclesiastic.
{b} Jac. Rev., De Vit. Pontific., 312.