lá treatife ofCon fiencf. about it. When men are troubled in confcience and burdened a little that way, prefently they daub all with peace, and go a wrong way to work. This couric the Lord doth complaine of in the falle Prophets who preached toomuch peace ; They have healed the hrsrt of the dasghter of'rny people Tightly, fay- ing, Peace, peace, when there i, nopence. And ío they do more hurt then good : Like a C:hirurg n that skinneth the wound before he giveth fearching fàlves to kilt the matter of it : after- wards it breaketh out worfe, and it isa hundred to one but it will coif the patient his life : So it is wi h many men : A. man cannot rare a little for his finnea, J have been as inner, and what (hall J do? J have been a beafl, &c. But, O, fay they, believe man, Chris diedfor thee, and the promife is to thee, and God will pardon thee. Thus they heal him 'lightly with Peace, peace, and it may be there is no peace to him yet ; he had need to be fearched more deeply : they skinnc the wound, and it is a thou - fand to one but it lofeth the mans foul, by giving a cordial! where a corrofive was necefiarie. And therefore great reafon that this queition fhould be anfwercd, If a man have a burdened troubled confcience, what mutt fuch a man do to be freed from it? J anfwcr, i . Let him take heed that he meddlenot too much with the fecret will of God, what his decree and purpotè is from eternity. As loon as an arrow is !hot into the confience, and the confcience cometh to be humbled , commonly the heart layeth about it, And how if God have reprobated me? and what if he have appointed me towrath? how tben ? Beloved, ye muff take heed of this : If your hearts fatten upon reprobation, that will marre all ; that will quite difcourage a poore foul from going to God. . Underfland the word right. Do not think that becaufe i God bath not in particular named thee, therefore he bath ex- Ieluded thee. Gods promifes are made in generali to all that believe : and they are to be applyed in particular to all them that believe : why then fhoulda thou exclude thy fell when GodBoth not exclude thee ? Wouldil thou have Chrift ? Chrift C c to I15
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