A fredtife ofGonfcience. I 15 alide all and look about it only. How can men eat, drink, fleep, &c. fith the wrath ofGod abideth upon all unbelievers? Methinks our fouls should take no content, do nothing elfe but faint after Ch rift, until we know our intereft inhim. I fay again ; This is the grand enquiry, that bufìneffe which all bufi- nefe mutt give place unto,Oh, the floth ofour fouls l Let us in time awake and route them up, and never relit untill we know our own eftate to be good before God, that foour hearts may have comfort, and that with God. MfAAMIHM.W:AflAMMP.A ATreatife ofConfcience, ROM. 2. 15. WhichíheW the workof theLary written in their hearts, their confciences allo bearing themwitnelfe, and their thoughts in the mean while, accufing or elfe excaifingoneanother. Havefhewed you, Thatevery man is in an e- ftatebefore God. And that bath made way now to a Treatife of confcience , which will (hew us what citate we are in before God. T delire tohandle it common - place -wife : And firft I will tell you in brief what theconfcience ofevery man s,I fay,of every man;For Angels and devils have a confcience too; ye may fee it in the fpeech of the Angel to john when John would have worfhipped him, 1 am thy fellow- fervant, faithhe,fee thoudo it not. Mark ; He had a confcience that could fay, Iam afervant ,and therefore muff not take Wor- Jhip to me. So for the devils a when our Saviour bade them come forthof the poffeffed, they fay, Art thou come to tor- ment us before our time. See, they had a conscience that told them there would be a time when they fhould be further tor- mented What, confci- ence is, Rev.i9. Io. Matth. S. 29,
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