.c>t treatife of Confcience. 109 and peace together, z. Cor, i 3. i , The Codoflove andpeace be withyou. If he be the God of love to us, it is fire enough hewill be theGod ofreace alto : lfwe know once that God loveth us, then we may let our hearts at refs : As long as we doubt ofhis love our conicience can never have true peace : And therefore if we would maintein true peaceof confcience let us labour to be affùred of Gods love. Thirdly, We mutt ufe the exercifè of faith in applying the bloud of Chritf; we muff labour to purge and cleante our consèiences with it. Ifwe find that we have finned, we muff runne preféntly to the bloud of Chri1f to wafh away our tonne. Wemuff not let the wound fetter or exulcerate, but pretently get it healed. As there is a fountain of fnne in us, fo there is a fountain of merciein Chritf, fetopenfor Judahand 7crufalem, 'Zecb.r3,r. and for every poore iòul to wafh in. As we finn.c dayly, fo he juffifieth dayly, and we muff davly go to him for it As every day we runtae into new debts, fo the Lords prayer teachethus every day to beg forgiveneffc : We muff every day eye the brazen ferpent. Juffification is an ever running fountain. and therefore we cannot look to have all the water at once. A fountain ever runneth anew ; fo juffification ever floweth anew, and we muff go to it. Chriff is a Prie/ forever after the orderof Melchifedec. O let us fue out everyday a dayly par- don ofeourfe ! Let us not fleep one night without a new pardon. Better fleep in a houle full ofadders and venemous beaffs then fleep in one finne. O then be lure with theday to clear the fìnnes of the day : Then (hall our confcience have ObjeE. true peace. But how if J have relapfed ? what fhall J do then ? J anfwer, Every man that falleth dorhnot fall on all Sol. foure,as we ilk to fay : he doth not fall quiet : There be degrees of falling. As in a lick man though he be ill yet he is not by and bydead ; tome life remaineth ffill, which will look out to- wards health again : fo there is fomuch life in juifification as to recover thee again. Be contfant therefore in this courfe : Ever go to Chriff, ever wafh in this fountain, ever bring thy foul hi- therto be eleanfed ; and then thy confcience ever fhall have _eace. Fourthly,' Anfir. 3.
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