. 11 treatife of Confeience. what is with a man. Now his well- doings or his ill-doings are with him : he was with himfelf when he did them. W hen thou art proud, or impatient, or careleffe in any duty, thou art with thy íelf when thou art fo : All thy ill-doings are with thee : therefore thy confcience muff needs know what thou aft. Ifa f9.11 Our tranfgrefons are with us ; and su for our iniquities we know tbcm.Take a curlir;and,as Solomon fàith,7hine own heart «lef.' knoweth that -thou haft sired to curfe others. So it is with a god-. zl ly foul : Thine obedience is with thee, and thy felf- deniall is with thee, and thy care to walk before God, all is with thee ; and therefore thou muft needs know it. This is the nature of confcience ; It is privy to what is with one. 2. The fecond rea fon is taken from the equity ofGods judge- ments on the wicked. The Lord he will judge none to hell, but his confcience (hall confeffe he was one that walked in the way to hell and death. Ye may reade it in the man that had not qn the wedding-garment : When Chriadid charge himwith his not having on a wedding garment, and did cdndemne him to utter darkrieffe, the text fifth, he war fpeechleffe ; that is, his Mittb.zz. confcience confeffed that Chrit}s judgement was jufl : J have 13'' not on a weddinggarment, faith his confcience ; and it ra my fault that Ihave none ; and Iam rightlycondemned. Thus his confcience did know it ; otherwilé he could not have been fpeechleffe in his own defence. As Fes+us told Agrippa that he 41s i f' 1 arifvvered the Priefis, It is not the manner of the Romans to de- 16 i liver any man to dye before that he who is aecufedhave his aecufersface toface, andhave licence to anfwerfor himfel f con- cerning the crime laid againft him : So may J fay, that the great Judge of quick and deaa.dvill not judge any man to hell but he will have his accufers face to face, and if he cananfwer for himfelf he may. Now ifconfèience be not privy to what eflate foever a wicked man is in, his confcience could never accule him face to face at the lafi day, nor juftifie the Lord Jefus, and make the (inner Band fpeechleffe before God. He might anfwer, Lord, J do not know anyfach thing as is laid to mr charge : J am not convinced that the cafe s thus and thaws with
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