d treatift o f Canfcience. And then he (hall crie out, Carfedwas I that ever I VMS born and turfed be thewomb that bare me ; and tke paps that gave mefu& Then fhalt thou mourn at the laf}, when thy fleh and thy bodie areconfirmed, and thyconlcience (hall fay, Korn have 1 hated inflrutlion, and myheart defpifed reproof? I have not obeyed the voyceof my teachers, nor enclrned mine ears to them that inffrafed me. Such dolefull mef ages confcience will bring in one day, and then it (hall hiffe like a Snake in thy bolome, Know now thatfor all thefe things thou fhalt came to judgement. And fo thy conlcience !hall bray thee like a fool ina mortar, as it were with a peilill,and it (hall pounce thee and beat thee and diftreile thee for evermore. This is the moth that gettech into the cloth, and doch eat it : When thou with rebukes doff corre£t manfor iniquitie.thou makeft his beautie to confume away Ake at when a moth fretteth a garment. This will make thy facegather blackneffe, and thy fpirnt be over-whelmed for ever- more. muff adde another ufe yet For all this is the law : and until! ye be in Chrift ye are all under the law, the curie of it, the rigour of it : And we are bound to tell you how ye (hall find it if ye do not fubmit to the righteoufneffe of Chrift. But though we do preach it in the handof a mediateur, faithPaul, Gal. 3.19. a terrible killing law, bur yet in a mercifull hand, in the hand of a mediacour, todrive us to feek for mercie : and therefore The third ufe (hall be, to call upon youto be humbled, and to fee that there is no living for you in your finales. Go and f+oop to Chrift Jefus, who onely can purge your guiltie conici- ences by his bloud. J befeech you confider, ye who yet abide in your tinfoil eftates and are yet in the fle(h c Jbefeech you, confider what the event will one day be. If ye will not look out, your conlcienccs will find you out at the !aft, and thenwo be to you. Yourconfciences will make all things grievous and bitter to you, even chofe things which in themfelves are motI Tweet and good : When ye heare of heaven, ofmercie, ofthe Moudof Chriíl , thefe will but encreafe your miferie ; con4ai- ence
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