118 treatife o f áonj cience, ifthou wilt wait : but if thou go and recomperrfe evil for evil, and right thy felt, thou doff not wait upon God as Solomon Prov.io. advifèth, Say not thou, I will recompenfe evil ; but wait on the za Lo.rdand he will fave thee. Mark ; chou muff not lave thy felt, thine own credit, &c. by revenging, but wait on God for all. Sohere ifconfcience be troubled, thou muff wait upon God tocomfort it : l fthou goefk and daubefl up the matter thy fell, and crieff, Peace, peace, to thy félf, thou doff not wait up- on God. ThusJ have anfwered the laff queffion, How ifa man have a burdened and troubled confcience, what muff filch 1 a man do to be freed from it ? And hitherto we have spokenof 1 the two laßt adjunèts of confcience, a Quiet confcience, and an Unquiet confcience ; What they be, and, How they differ : and we have refolved and anlvwered the queßlions and difficulties about them. Confcience btureth ivitneffe of our perfons. ()teeming the witneffe ofConfcience , J told you that C e í confcience beareth witneffe of two things : z. It beareth witneffe of our actions; a. It beareth witneffe of our perfons. The former bath been , declaredunto you at large : J corne now to the latter; Confci- ence beareth witneffe allo of our perfons, whether webe good or evil, whether in Chrift or in finne : And here Jwill Phew you foure things : i. That every mans confcience may inform himwhat Cate he is in, whether of falvation or damnation, whether ofgrace or ofnature. a. How confcience doth it. 3. When confcience doth it. 4. How it cometh to paffe then that fo many thoufands mil- i Every take and are ignorant and deluded about their eflates. t:sans Con- 1. For the firff , That every mans confcience may inform fcieee may himwhat effate he is in, vvhether good or bad (J 1peak efpe- fwhat in cially of fuch as live under the light of the Gofpel ofChriff. ) flare be is There
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