HEAVEN upon EARTH In a Serene and Smiling good CONSCIENCE. SERMON I. Aets 24. i 6. And herein do I exercife myfelf, t have always a Confcience void of Offence toward God, and toward Mena Good Confcience is a fingularly good companion, the worth and benefit whereof is not readily fo well known till men be brought into force firait ; then indeed the paffing great and fin- guiar worth and ufefulnefs of it clearly difcovers itfelf; as we may fee in Pauls cafe here,who being arraign'd be- fore the tribunal of an heathen judge, and having many enemies, and thefe too of his own nation having delive- red him up ; among other grounds of confolation and defence that he hath to fuf ain himfelf by, this is ore, and not the leaf}, that his Confcience did bear him witnefs, that it was his endeavour and work to live fo be- fore God and men, that he might not have a challenge from it ; and this makes him fpeak boldly again} all his accufers, and is better to him, and more valuable, than all the arguments and rhetorical difcourfes that a `fer -- C 3 tol!a s
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