tingly aimed at in all thefe, at all times, fabbath -day and week -day; in all conditions,in profperity and adver- bty ; in =1l places, at home and abroad, in the Chop and in the family, in journeys by land and voyages by lea ; (for Confcience comes in as concerned in all places, and in all companies, and will put the qoeftion, Whether we be called to go to fuch a place, and to be in fuch a company or not, and will expe& an anfwer as to all thefe things, conditions, times, places and companies) If (I fay) we try Confcience as to all rhefe, we will find that a good Confcience is a very rare thing ; and that it is not fo eafily either attained or entertained, as many imagine it to be : And that withal 'tis evident and undeniable hence, that the Confciences of moll men and women are not fo good as they are ready to aver them to be ; which they Will one day find (if a gracious change prevent not) to their unfpeakable and irreparable lofs and prejudice. waninuavasa's wavasangvas SERMON IL Neb. 13. z 8. Pray for us : For we tru(i we have a good Confcience, in all things willing to live honefily. TRue religion and godlinefs confifs, not only in the illumination of the mind, and in the concepti- on and contemplation of the truths concerning God and the gofpel, but allo and mainly in the praetice of the known duties thereof ; and very ordinarily there is more of the concern of Confcience, and of its folid peace, in the praetice of more common and well -known duties that are even at our hand, than in the fpecula- tion of, and painful fearch after, things that are more myflerious and obfcure. We would decry none of thefe, nor diffwade any from a fober enquiry after them who are more called to it than others ; yet we would give every one. of them their own due place, and would by &d1 means take heed that we feparate and divide not the power
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