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Well , then , there are in my judgment four reasons for it : -- -LCB- 376 -RCB- 1 . Though the consciences of such men are awakened , yet their minds are not changed ; therefore , when the power of guilt weareth away , that which provoked them to be religious ceaseth , wherefore they naturally turn to their own course again , even as we see the dog that is sick of what he has eaten , so long as his sickness prevails he vomits and casts up all ; not that he doth this of a free mind -LRB- if we may say a dog has a mind -RRB- , but because it troubleth his stomach ; but now , when his sickness is over , and so his stomach eased , his desire being not at all alienate from his vomit , he turns him about and licks up all , and so it is true which is written , `` The dog is turned to his own vomit again . '' -LSB- 2 Pet . 2:22 -RSB- Thus I say , being hot for heaven , by virtue only of the sense and fear of the torments of hell , as their sense of hell and the fears of damnation chills and cools , so their desires for heaven and salvation cool also . So then it comes to pass , that when their guilt and fear is gone , their desires for heaven and happiness die , and they return to their course again . -LCB- 377 -RCB- 2 . Another reason is , they have slavish fears that do overmaster them ; I speak now of the fears that they have of men , for `` the fear of man bringeth a snare '' .