Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BV4526 .B35 1675

96 SO Poo? ano fantiCp Zook. " to trouble mens minds inftead of making them better, " is but the work of a few hot brain'd Coxcombes, " that can neither let themfelves nor other men live " quietly. P. 0 Sir I that you had but tryed what (h) quiet- nefs there is in the Confcience of a Renewed juf}ified perlon, incomparifonofwhat is in the galled ulcerous Confcience ofthe ungodly ! O,it is a proud, a worldly, a fieíhly heart and lite which is the fling that will give the fanner no reft ! and the defiled guilty Confcience which will never let the foul be quiet ! which hath a lifeof unpardoned fin to look back upon a life of iènfuality, and ungodlinefs, of Pride, fulnefs and Idlenefs, abundance of Oathes, Curies, Lies, con- tempt of God ., Thefe are they that will not let the world be quiet, nor fuller the Confciences of the wicked long to give them any refl. Twice God protefteth by the Prophet, There is no Peace to the tricked, Ifa. 4$3. 22. & 57. 21. Ifa.59. 8. The way of peace they know not. There is no judgement in their goings: they have made them crooked paths : whofoever goeth therein .(hall not know peace. Godhateth all theworkers of iniquity, Pfal. 55. And what peace is there then to fuch ? ezek. 13 . z 1,12. Becaufe they have feducéd my people faring Peace, and there was no peace, and one built cap a wall and others dawbed it with untempered mercer, fay unto them that it (hall fall Lo, when the wall isfallen, `hallit not be raid unto you, where is the dawbing wherewith ye have dawbed it ? z Thef. 5. 3. When they (:all ray Peace andfafety, fudden defirutlion cometh cuis them as travail ona woman with Child, and they(hall not efcape. (h) Flab. 3.z$. Pfal.4..7, 8.Rom.z4. 17. Hebrzo. 34. I pray

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