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V
g R.
19.
Epbefianr;
Chap.
+
VERSE
t9.
Which being pall
feeling
have
given
them
felvcs
ur.tr
wantonnefe,
to worke all uncleaneneffe,
evenwith
greedineffe..
The third thing followeth, that
they were
without
feeling, or
griefe
as
theOriginal!
word
is.
To
underftand it, you mutt know
that
the
fiaule
lath
afaculty which
we
call
[Confcicnce]
which
loth
beam
f
ecord
what
we
doe,
and give fentence
excufng,
or
accufing, accor-
ding
toche
nature
of
the
fail:
the
excufing,
breedeth
joy,
sheaccu-
fng
confcience
begetteth
griefe
:
now
thefe being
without the
light
of
knowledge,
and being hardened
that they
could not
feele
the
checke
of
Confcience
in
that they
did
know,
carne
to be
remorfeleffe
after
r
heir wickedneffe:
which doth teach us,
How
blind-
hearted
men
are
affcaed after theirfinne,
they
are voyd
of
griefe in the midll
of
their
wickedneffe.
This
is
not the
(late
of
every
finner, but
of
one
that
is
fmittcn,through the
defers
of
his
former
floues,
with
£carefull
blind
-
neffe, and
more then ordinary
hardneffe
of
heart
:
this
we fee,
Prcv.
a.
13,
14.
They
turne from
the
wayes
of
innocencie and
rejoyce
when they
have done
evil!,
the
wicked
make
but
a
fportto
have
corn-,
mined
finne,
ler. 8.
12.
Were
they
áfhamed when
they
had
committed
their
abominations
nay they were
not
afbamed,neither
could
they
have
any
flame. And thus
Pfau
when
he
had molt prophanely fold
his
birth-
right,
he
went his way,
it
is Paid,
and
de/pifed
his
birthright.
The
Con-
Icence
is
as
the eye,
ir
is a
molt tender parr,
feeling griefe from
the
leafs
offence,
but
if
a
hard
flesh
doth overgrow it,
of
all
the parts
it
is
molt
infenfible ; fo men
that
have had fome feeling in
Confcience,
if
once they
1er
it
be covered with
hardneffe
of
heart, they will
bee
voyd
of
feeling, they will not
be
ashamed to
carry their
(Miles
in their
face
like
Sodom.
This
therefore being the guile
of
defperate finners, muff make
us
take heede
of
this
effare
of Confcicnce,
when
we
can
now
time
with.
outbeing
pricked after
ir.
Let
us
therefore
take up griefe
for
our day.
ly
offences, for cuftome
in
finne
taketh away the
feeling
of
it,
and
letting finne
paffe
without griefe,
we
fhall
hardly be able
to
grieve
when we
would.
It
reacheth us,
that when
we feele
our
Confcience upbraid us,
and
carafe
us
griefe,
in fuch
things
as
many
feele
not;
we mutt not
miflike
this,
for
it
is
the worke
of
the holy
Ghoft
in
us,
this convincing
tes
of
finne,
and
thus
.David.
his
heart
frmote
him when
he
had
numbred the
peo.
pie;
when
he
had cut
of
the lap
of
Sault garment;
when he had
finned,
his
finne
was
alwayes
before
him
:
thus Peter,
he
went
out
and
wept
bitter-
ly
:
thus
the
penitent Corinthian when excommunicate, did fo grieve
that there
was
contrary
medicine applyed, left
he
Amid
be
framed
sip
with
griefe.
IThe
fourth thing
is
the Confequence
of
this, when they
had loft
this
Ring
of
Confcience, they
did runne upon all kinde
of
wicked
-
neffe: whence
Obferve,
That
a man will not flicke
to
commit any
evill
that
bath
no
reflraint in
Confcience
: thus when
the Phatifees
had
refi-
tted the holy Ghoft awhile, they grew hardhearted
and fenfelefl'e,and
Z
7.
went
521
áatAyireSvte
Confcience
and the
wo:kc
ofit.
Dail.
,
Hardhearted
men haveno
feeling
orgrief
fer
sheer
fins,
Vie
r:
Such an
cflate
is
to
be feared.
2.
It
is
good
to
have
our
con-
(dente
checke
us.
Joh.
r6.8.
Pfal.
yr. 3.
Matz6.
75.
z
Cor.
r.
Doti.
An hardhear-
ted man
trill
flieke at no
finne.
Ir