Serin. i 5. when Inward and outward Troubles meet 345 5. The accuf ations and condemnations of Confcience are terrible, or caufe terrour beyond all expref on. 6. There is a time when God will call over fins that are paff, and charge there upon the Confcience. 7. Inward trouble of mind fometimes, yea ufually comes upon the people of God when they are outwardly in fame difirefs. 1 ¡hall fpeak of the two Taft, and in them fomething of all the other, faving the fourth,containirg the particular matter of Fa &,viz. cruelty and bloud, which I ¡hall not meddle withall. Thefe then are the two Do&rines : i. There is a time when God will call over part fins with horrour, &e. 2. This time of inward horrour falls in with outward trouble. Do &. r. There is a time when God will call over fins that are pafl,wic h- out repentance, and charge them upon the Confcience with horrour. Here's the Cafe ; The fons of }acob had formerly trefpaffed againft God in the matter of their Brother, And they faid, &c. now and not till now that we read of,is the guilt and horrour of it refle &cd upon their Confciences.In fin,the aft paffes,rhe pail t & confequent remains. Sin is like forre poyfon, which maybe taken at one time, and work at another, it may be (even years after : 'rwas now more than feven and (even years, that the poyfon of this fin began to work. Family fins, Hof. f.4. 'ris true of National fins, Eel¿, 4.4, 5. Lam. 5.7. Perfonal fins, as here : And that's the Cafe i. Not only of, the wicked, as in the cafe of Cain, Gen.4. 7. If thou- doefl ill fin lies at the door, to Nit out Mercies and let in Judgements and that as a fell Maftiff, or a fleepirg Lion, ready to take thee by the throat, whenever the Lord awakens guilt in the Confcience. 2. But alfo of the Godly, Pfal. 19.12. & 25.7. yob 13.26, Thom makeft me to po ffefs the fins of my youth. Real', .F rum God. i. God remembers all, Amos 8.7. As I live faith the Lord, i "ill Rea forget none of their works. i Sam. is. 2. I remember what Ama1eck did, &c. G d hath three Books : I. Of Pr,fcierce, wherein he writes down our names, and his pur- pofes concerning us. The Arminiansdeny that Book. . 2. Of Providence, wherein he writes down our names , and all his care over us. The Epicure and Atheifi deny this as alfo theórmer. 3? 9f rie.
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