.d treatife ofConfcience. I I25 And I never bad thefe,iá,ith cottkietaee : Whenye hear there and ofa carnali eftate, And there orfineof thefe are in roe, faith there marks confcience ? do not your conferences interline in this man- ne ? As Paul was ¡peaking to t1_e fhipmen concerningGod, his conicrenee did fv°veetly interline thus, ?There flood by me this night ,4n Angel offood, whofe jam, faith his confcience. And as he was writing to the Romans , Gad is my witndre , faith he, whom I ferve in my [pint. But do not your coniciences interline otherwile with you ? 1fthey'do, J befeech you confiderit : Your conlciences do then truly inform you of your rotten eflates : lift= to therm. Secondly, when confcience failed: a choking. As for ex- ample, in prayer : a wicked man prayeth ; But 1 do not pray right, faith his confcience. !humbly befeech thee, OLord : Nay, but J do not befeech humbly, faith his conscience. J elejár1 to be fanF,tifled and purgedfrom my fins : Nay., but J do not hunger after anyfuck thing, faith confcience. I de not cenfeffe myAnts right, nor beg fin-grace right. Do your coniciences choke you thus ? Now your coniciences inform you of your eflates. Per- adventure ye hardly perceive this choking at all : It is dono in a moment, and it prefently ceafèth, becaufe ye are not vvil- lingtoheave it : and therefore it may be confcience doch it by fudden flafhes. It is laid the Lordfpakafuddenly toMofes : f4 often confcience fpeaketh fuddenly to men, a word and away. As David faithof the wicked, God 'hall 'hoot an arrow at there, and they¡hall be wounded on afudden : So confcience fhooreth aquick.arrow, and it woundetb men in the twinkling of an eye, and it is gone. Lord, have mercy open us, laid one : But fhould not fay fo vainly and in ordinary talk, faith confcience. Ido not hate this man for his holineffe and friFlueffe : Butyou do, faith confcience. And fo when men are defending evil by arguments ; But this is falfe; faith confcience. Thus confci- ence choketh on a fudden, and is gonr-. JConfeflc g..nerally the cnen ofthe worldmark not the+c things : They are filch fudden fparklings of confcience that Inen for the moll parr do not heed them : But there arcGods witneftes ; apd men fhail know one dfi'r z7. 23 R ern. c 9. conrci, erica cho kerìi- Nnw. 12. 4
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