riiL t7'eatífe of Confcíence, confcience fpeaketh peace and etfeêceth it ; it doth not onely (peak it but it puttech it intoour hearts. It proppeth us up in all mileries, in (ickneffes, yea in death it Pelf. A good conicience then rnakech us hold up our heads when all the world (hall be confounded : A good conicience will bear us out again(( r. Corr 5, the King of terrours : It is onely a good con( ience that can s S, f7. look death in the face, and tày, Odeath, where is thy fling? thanks be to God whogiveth ur viiorie through ear Lord jefus Chrift. Yea, at theday of judgement, when the whole world (hall be burningbefore us, when the 'great men of the world who go in filks and fcarlet and broidered hair (hall fear and fhiver as a reed hhakenwith the wind, this will make us with boldneffe undergo the terrour of it. This will make us happie in all our diarefles : When crofles pelt,us, andhcknefle paineth us, and death attatcheth us we are happie men. What if we have the tokens. of Gods wrath upon our bodies fo we have the marks of his love upon our fouls ? What outward calamitie foever happeneth to us, yet if wehave this good conkience we are happie. O then let us labour to get it by faith and a holy life. If we would be Café in the floud-time, in the day of Gods wrath, we mutt be buhe now about the ark, we mutt provide before-hand For it : Nothing but this ark will lave us in the Gen- 4. deluge of Gods anger. It is in vain to trouble our iclves about ¿o, other things : Jabal was a merrie man ; he made pipes and organes : Jabal built tents ; others planted vineyards : but Noah provided his ark. Many delire comfort in hckneffe, in death ; butthey do not provide for it before-hand : They look after their (ports or buhneffes in- the world ; but this ark is neg leaed, this good conicience, without which all men_s labour s vain. Be they what they will he, in never tò much credit and efleern they are yet moll milerable when troubles and af_ flies &ions come on them, as one day they (hall and (hall not tarrie ; then all their comforts will forfake them : When death looketh them in the face : then their hearts die within them. How full of pride and haughtineffe foevcr they were before, yet when theycome to die, if their contèiences be awaked they
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