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Multi

Ghri,{fianïi

nomen ad

judicium

hab

:nt

non

ad

remediïi

'V

omws

ani

me

Gui!.

P

arifienf,

°Dumtem

porc fupe.

nora

co

V2

noiris

com-

pa,.o, dicere

confruevi

plies altos

con

feientia,

frentiee

ma.

The

Ep1f

ile

to

the

Reader.

they

have

loft

all

confcience

o

f

firme.

As

*

S. Auguftine

faith

of

the name

of

a

Chriftian,

fo

may

1

fay

of

confcience,

Multi confcien-

tiam

habent,

lion

ad

remedium

fed ad

judicium,

Many

have

a

confcience

for

their

condemnation

and

not

for

their

falvation.

Confcience

a

it

is

the houfe

of

the

foul

:

But

this

houf

e

lieth

rwafte

and

is

much

ruinated

and

decayed in

the(è

times,Wherein

b

never

more

fcience

but never

le

fe

confcience.

Confcience

C

it

is

a

private

iudgement

-day

before

the public

da

o

judgement

:

And

it

i1

an

ill

prefage

that

molt

people

will

never

fland

upright

in

the court

of

heaven,

becaufe they

ftand

accuf

ed

and

condemned in

the

court

of

confcience.

Ca

onfcience

is

Gods

preacher

in

our

bofornes:

And

it

is

a

molt

certain rule;

That

that

man

that

will

not

regard

the

preacher

im

his bofome,Will

never regard

the preacher

in

the

pulpit.

And

the

reafon

why

the

preacher

in

the

pulpit

Both

no

more good,

is

becaufe

the preacher

in

the

bofome

is

fo

much

defpfed&

neglected.

And

t

her-

h

boot

(thefe

motives

confadered)

will

be

r

"u

habit-

for

I

doubt

not

bass

a

ilfe;nos

con

very

acceptable

a l to

all

thole

that

have

or

delre

to

have

a

good

and

plu,ienn.

p

æ

plus,cen.

quiet

confcience.

For

as

`t

S.

Bernard

molt excellently

faith,

Every

fcientiemi-

mans

confcience

is

his

book

;

and

all

books

are

written to

dir-

nws

haberes

cover and

amend

the

errours

of

the

book

of confcience,

Let

Beza,

thofe

that

reade

this

book,of

confcience

lookinto

the

bookof

their

own

Yrej

confcience

and

amend all the

faults

of

that

boo

,by

this.

ciurn

Audi

-

cü,Tercut,

The

reverend Authour of

this

boob

ruai

a

Mánifter very

can

ci-

a

Vnicuiq;

entious, and

one

that

load

a

great

abilitie given

him

by

God

to

(fiber

elf,

preach unto and

work

upon

the

confcience

of

people, to

awaken the

I

fleepieco!

fcience,

to

inform

the

erroneous

confcience, to

fettle

the

proptaacon-

acientia;

ience,

and

to

comfort

the wounded confcience

:

his

ad

haw,

it.

doubt full

con

fc

beam

dit-

fermons

were

all

dips

in

confcience

:

And

therefore a

fubjea

of

Con

cutic

rdum

,fcience

muff

needs be

rvelcome

from fach

a

preacher.

It

is

true that

&

esaen-

this

birth

is

PoiThumum

opus, and

cometh out

after

the

death of

dandana

the

Authour

:But

I

hope

it

will

be

the more

pleating,

to

revive

the

o,nnes

alii

inventi

memory

of him

whole

life and labours were defervedly preca-

funt.

oui in thee11eem

of

Gods people.

And

if

confcience,

though

for

a

while

blind,

and

clumbe,

and

(eared, and

put out

of

all

office,

will

notwithflanding

at

left

be

put

into

office ,

and

made

to

fee,

f'eak.

and feel,

to the

utter

deftrt4lion of

an impenitent

finner;