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the
Reader.
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them,
or
to untie
any
of the
knots
of
that curled
con
-
junetion)
let him alone,
let
him
fin
on, and
by
finning
rreafure
up
to
himfelf
wrath
againft
the
day
of
wrath,
and revelation
of
the righteous judgment
of
God. Be-
fide,
that
fuch
a
filent,
fleeping
and ffupified
confcience,
through
often
treading
challenges
under
foot, will
at
lait
waken and
flee
in
thé
ungodly man's
face,
and,
as
a
fierce
maflive
dog,
or ravening
wolf,
take
him
by
the
throat,
and
became his
Burrio
and
tormentor,
and
perhaps, for
eviting
the
trouble
and
terror of
it,
put
him
(tho
a
poor
and pitiful, defperate
and
diflra
&ed shift)
to
be
his
own
murderer
and executioner
;
or,
if
it
fhould
keep
filence
to death,
and
even
then
not
difquiet
him,
yet
it
will
in
hell,
as
a
never-dying
worm, gnaw
the
heart
of
him,
and,
as a
ravenous
vulture, tear out
as
it
were
his
very
bowels;
and
by
its
yelling and
roring,
by
its
biting and
renting
the
very caul
of his
heart,
make
him
a
hell to
himfelf
in
hell,
and
fo
make
a
double
hell
to':him:
Alas
!
even
the
godly themfelves, may, by fomewhat
of
this
guilt,
raife
great
florins
of
trouble and difquiet in
their
own
confciences.
Sixthly,
We
would by
all
means
guard
againft
coun-
teraBeing
and running
crof
to
the plain
and
downright
di&}ates
of
our
confciences, efpecially when clearly
in-
formed
by the
word
;
for
this
is a
high-daring,
mala-
pert,
affronting,
defpifing and difowing
of
God's
depu-
ty,
and
as
it
were
a
violent
putting him off
the
bench
;
the
language
whereof
is,
that
if
God
himfelf the
Lord
of
the
confcience,
were,
or
could
poffibly be,
as
much
in
the
man's
reverence,
as
he
fuppofeth
his
confcience
to
be,
he
would deal with him
at the
fame
rate,
and
ferve
him
with the
fame
meafure
:
This
brings on dedolency,
flu
-
pidity
and
cauterizing
of
confcience,
makes
flout againft
God,
bold and
impudent
in finning
;
it
makes
the
man's
heart harder
then
an
adamant, it
makes him to
be
ora
brazen brow, and to put
on
a
whore's
forehead,
fo
that
he will
not at
all think
fhame,
nay, not
fo
much
as
blush,
but
confidently
wipe
his
mouth,
and fay,
What
have
I
clone?
and
very readily it brings
on
all
the
dread-
ful
effe&s
mentioned
in
the foregoing
Caution
;
and
fills
the
world
of
the
vifible
Church
with
prodigies
of
pro
-
fanity