Serm. 15 when Inward and outward Troubles meet ? recording, witnefling and judging, till Judgement take place, and the Law , and fentence be fulfilled upon the Inner. Verily I am guil- ty, &c, thus Confcience is Tormenter and Executioner alfo, execu- ting its own Sentence by addling the heart, and moving theaífeetions as of joy and boldnefs if the Cafe be good ; fo of horrour and fear, lham -e and forrow, if the Cafe be bad, &c. Now thefe ads of Confcience, though happly for a time fufpended as it were, are unavoidable, upon a double account : and Confcience cannot be bribed. r. Becaufe of that relation, that Confcience hath to God, it ever takes Gods pact, and God it's ; it is Gods deputy, and Viceroy ; and fo it's voice and judgement is the very Voice and judgement of God himfelf ; who can and will maintain it in its office, till he brings forth judgement unto vi Cory. 2. Decaufe of it's relation to a mans felf ; it is Senfus prejudicium 7udici Divini. Nothing fo intimate to a man, and infeparable from life , as this bofome Judge, and Gods Court within a man 'eis a part of a mans Soul and felf as fubordinate to God and his Judgement ; So that if a man can run away from God, or himfelf, then he may efcapc the reflection of his fin upon him, but if not, then know, it muff be Jer: 2. F9. an evil and bitter thing , that thou hail departed from God in any known fin, either to thy pe -iten: amendment or penal condemnation and confufion,and that up n all accounts, 1. In refpect of God. 2.0f Sin. 3. Of the Sinner himi;If. Ter 2.19. Thine Om wichcdnefs fba11 reprove thee, thine Oon iniquity fhall correa thee ; all the time thou a- bideft in. fin thou art gathering either Hemlock to poifon thee , or Worm -wood to make thy life bitter. r. Inf ruftion : i. See then the malignity and danger of fin. Fools Ufe. tó make a mock of fin. 2. See the vanity, finfulnefs, and defperate danger of prefuming upon any bottom of peace and fatisfac`}ion or fecurtty , whilfi fin re- mains : of a truth thy pace and hope threof (hall be as a Spiders web , and as the giving up of the Ghoft, and thy prefumption muff end in defpair ; bribefi thou thy Pelf with a perfwafion of peace, pre- fuming and leaning. t. Upon Gods Patience ? remember forbearance is no payment ,o> forgiveneff, nor fign thereof. 2. Upon outward Priviledges ? Matth.7.2 i. God knows thee nor,: while thon art a worker of iniquity. 3. Upon the ?vle cy of God ? H. is holy, án4 thereforç rut u é y_ a 349
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