, 'The Saints fore Nowwe mutt: not take any exception againft the firft; that is, the Law of God: For theLaw of Go/, (faithDavid, Pfal.Ig. '7- ~ ) ifperfeElc,converting the foule : The teftimonie '.{the Lord if Jure, and giveth wifedfJme·unto the ftmple-. 'f!ee cannot ag~inft the fecond ; that is, the Booke of our Confcience : , for it was ever in our cuftodie and keeping ; nQ man could corrupt it; there is nGthing writ in it, butwith our owne hands. New, in what a terri– ble fearefull cafewilla man be at that Day, when he {hall fee the Booke of God layd open before hirn ;' in the Light whereof hee lhould have led all his life, and by which he is now to be judged; and yet know himfelfe to have had no knowledge, but to have beene a meere ftra11ger in it? Though the great things of the Law were many times pub– tithed and preached unto him, yet bee counted thfm but as a jlraHge,thit~g. Every mans Confci– ence is naturally corrupt, defiled, and uncomfor– table; and can endure anddigeft reafonable qui– etly the rage of difordered a+fetl:ions, many: vile corruptions, and ,fin full a&ions :· and therefore,at the laft Day, when it iball be awakened, opened, examined , it will bring forth nothing, but the Worme that never dyes, fl:range confufton, an·d condemnation·; except it hath _beene formerly in this World enlightened, pmged, and fanetified by the Word of Grace, and the Bleud of the Lambe. Moft accurfed then,and fG>rlornc,will be the fl:ate of every ignorant man,when he fhall ap– peare befQre the Iudgeofall the World: When . lie lookes upon his Confcience,he lh~ll finde no- . · thing
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