0 how !he exper1s and longs .for her delivery ! now a throb comes~ and then !he cries; anon comes af~cond throb and then !he cries again,O,when comes det.verance?Tlius God thdFather takes onhim the perfon ofa travelling woman ; he travels and travels unttl he bring forth a fonna, until fome foul be converted, and brought home unto htm. 0 ]eru[alem, wilt thott not be made clean ?. when nn~l tt once b.e ? I have!"f!a.ttcd ; one, ten~ twenty, thirty,fortyycarslong h~tve f ry'atted on th.sgeneratwn_; when wtll tt o~ce_b.e? The Lord thus navels irt pattence, . \ookmg when we wtll recctve mercy ; wtll never out proud hearts be hvmble~ ? will never our ll:ubborn heart.s be foftned? wi)l never o~~ prophane hearts be !:1ncttfied? when·wtlltt once be? Chnll: bath waited thts day, thts week this moneth, this quarter,this year, thefe ten, twenty, thirty, fourty years on us: ,You ~Id !inners, that are gray-headed in your wickedneffe, how long bath the Lord -waited on you? 0 for jhame let him wait no longer, but turn, turn ye unto him, that ye may receive mercy from him. . . . . Thirdly, ifbonds of love move not, the Lord hath tron cords, that wtll pluck m pteces? to wit, the cords ofConfcience : which thus difputes, He that being often reproved, doth j/i/1 harden his heart, jhall perijh everlaHingly : . Bllt thOle bemg often reproved, dojl f/•11 harden thy heart: Therefore thou jhalt perijiJ everlaffingly. . . {Monition ~ In tlits Syllo~tfi~ are Accufation ) of Confcien:c. c6ntamed the Condemnation ' In the firll: Propolition, Confi'ience gives tl}e !inner a Monition, to come from finne, upQn pain of the heaviell: Judgement that can be inflicted. It is the Lord that fends the Confcience on this errand, Go to fuch a man, and tell him, You have blafphcmed God; Name, and you have Jpoksn againjl Gods Saims, andyou have broken Gods Sabbaths, and y011 have contemned Gods Ordmances; Be it k!1own then unto thee, (faith Confcieilce when it delivers the Meffitge) That I have a commandfrom Heaven, andfrom God; f charge you, asyou will anjiver it at the dreadful day of !~tdg&nent, takg heed ofthofe evils andfinJttl praElices that heret>foreyo11 have committed, lefl: y01e damn y011r fouls for ever, Will you quell:ion his Commiflion?J fee Prov. 29. 1. He that /Jeing oftm reprowd, hardenerh his neck_, jiJa/1jitddenly be dejlroyed: Ifyou often be reproved, and will not lie ll~ttered, then the Lord fayes,andConfi'ience from the Lord tells you, Be it at your own peril,ye jha/l jieddenlybedej/ro;-ed,No fooncr (.'_on{cience thus perks upon the crown,but th~finner hangs the wmg, and wtthdraws htmfelffrom hts former lewd courfes. But now when wtcked perfons fee their companion is gone, they make after him amain, and then Co!'fi'ience plucks one way, and they pluck another way; at !all:, by carnal company, artd curfed perfwafions, the foul is drawn back again to his former wicked comfes, and fo perhaps this twill: is broken, & the !inner is gone. · . 2. Iffo, then Conji:ience, that was a Monitor; now turns Accufer in the minotPro– pofition; before it was onely Gods .ijerald_to fon!warp him, but now it is become a P!trfwanr and Ser1eanr to Arrell: h,im: it f01lows him to the Alehoufe., and purfues him ~ome. ; then takes hitll in his bed, and Arrell:s him in his Oeep; there (by a Med'itation? 1t hales the foul before the Tribunal-feat of God, faying, Lo, Lord, this is th~ }ndn, tha ss the Dmnk_ard, Adulterer; Blafphem~r, this is he, Lord; an enemy to thyJervant~, an hater ofthy Tmth, a~efpifer of thy Ordmanees; at fisfh a time, in {uch a place, rvith ji1ch a company.thu man defpifed thy Tr~tth,; thts is he, Lurd,this is theman. And when Confi'ience haththus dragged him before God, -and aceuf~d him, then ·Tak!.him Jay/or, taks him, Dev.t, (fatth the Lqrd) and unprifon lnm; let vexation, and horror., and trouble, and anguifl, L.e upon hzsfoul, untt/j he c•nfejfe hisfinnes, an_d r.efolve to forfaks them. In this cafe was Davtd, when he was forced to fay,My boneswaxeil old through my roaring a/!the day long ;for day and mght thy hand was heavy upon me, my mofjfure is turned into the drought offummer: What then? 0 the'( ,{faith D~vid) Jack_nowledged my fin unto thee,-/ ~nfejfedmy tran[~reJlio~s unto thee, 0 Lwd, andfo thouforgavejl the iniquit)tofmy fin . h avzd, he folded up hts !ins at the firll:, and therefore his bones were confumed, and e roared contmually; when the Lo_rd had him on the Rack, he-made him. roar again, h-d ~vould never leave tormentmg, ttll Davidcame to confeffing;but when he confcffed ~ ts. m, and the ·qthcr fin, then the Lord forgave-him the iniqujty of his fin.r l Thus ,e on{{f.nce bnngs thefoul of a fi~neron the Rack (as Traitors are ufed, that\vi\1 not one e otherwtfe) and makes htm-to confeffe hts fins, and then he. cries 0 the ab'tnnina– .t•ons f have committed which the SJm.nevrrJaw; injilfh a place, qt f 11 ch d time, 0 then 1 railed 41 Prov. 29• ri.
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