treitife ofCon f trence, 1 107 benfion of Gods wrath. You will never be able to bear it, much leffe in the time of afliicion. O it is good being in a drie houle when a great temprfl is up : and it is fife being in a good harbour when a florin beatetla hard. A good coniZ fence is good at all times; but O how tceet then i When Jonah fell into affli&ion the want ofpeace in his conlcience made him look upon his atfl,ciion as upon hell, as though he had been in the belly of hell : They who follow lying vanities, fcrfa%e tloeir awn mercies, faith he. Mark ; his conicience dogged him with his fleeing from God, and forsaking his own mercies. Ye fee he was rniferably dillreffed by it till the Lord did deliver him. Be charie then of confcience, and get it purged, that it may fpeak peace to you in trouble. 4 Queflions. N Ow J have declared unto you, What a troubled confci- ence, is ; What is the caule of it, and wherein it con- fifleth ; Howmany degrees there be of it ; How the troubled conicience of the godly differeth from the troubled confcience of the wicked ; the miferie of a troubled confcience ; and, What a deal of mifchief it doth one, especially in afñidlion now J fhould leave this point, but that there be fui:drie quefli- ens to be anfwered about ir. I. Suppoiè a man be rid of this trouble, and have peace of confcience, how fhall he maintain it, and keep out troubles from it ? II. Whether and how the peace ofour confcience dependeth upon our care and obedience ? III. What manner of obedience it is that peace of confci- ence Both depend on ? IV. If a man have no peace, but onely a burdened con - fcience, what muff fuch a man do tobe freed from it and to attain true peace ? I. Queflion ; How ,¢ man may keep peace of Con - fcience. 11 b 3 I
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