* Multi Ghri,{fianïi nomen ad judicium hab:nt non ad remediïi 'Vomws ani me Gui!. P arifienf, °Dumtem porc fupe. nora co V2 noiris com- pa,.o, dicere confruevi plies altos confeientia, frentiee ma. The Ep1file to theReader. they have loft all confcience o f firme. As * S. Auguftine faith of the nameof a Chriftian,fomay 1 fay ofconfcience, Multi confcien- tiam habent, lion ad remedium fed ad judicium, Many have a confcience for their condemnation and not for their falvation. Confcience a it is the houfe of thefoul : But this houfe lieth rwafte and is much ruinated and decayed in the(è times,Wherein b never more fcience but never lefe confcience. Confcience C it is aprivate iudgement -day before the public da o judgement : And it i1 an ill prefage that molt people willnever fland upright in the court of heaven, becaufe they ftand accufed and condemned in the court of confcience. Caonfcience is Gods preacher in our bofornes: And it is a molt certain rule; That that man that will not regard the preacher im his bofome,Will never regard the preacher in the pulpit. And the reafon why thepreacher in thepulpit Both no more good, is becaufe the preacher in the bofome is fo muchdefpfed&neglected. And t her- h boot (thefe motives confadered) will be r "u habit- for Idoubt not bass a ilfe;nos con very acceptable a l toall thole that have or delre to have a good and plu,ienn. p æ plus,cen. quiet confcience. For as `t S. Bernardmolt excellentlyfaith, Every fcientiemi- mans confcience is his book ; and all books are written to dir- nws haberes cover and amend the errours of the book of confcience, Let Beza, thofe that reade this book,of confcience lookinto the bookoftheir own Yrej confcience and amend all thefaults of that boo ,by this. ciurn Audi- cü,Tercut, The reverend Authour of this boob ruai a Mánifter very can ci- a Vnicuiq; entious, and one that load agreat abilitie given him by God to (fiber elf, preach unto andwork upon the confcienceofpeople, to awaken the I fleepieco! fcience, to inform the erroneous confcience, tofettle the proptaacon- acientia; ience, and to comfort the wounded confcience : his ad haw, it. doubt full confc beam dit- fermons wereall dips in confcience : And therefore afubjea ofCon cuticrdum ,fcience muff needs be rvelcome from fach apreacher. It is true that & esaen- this birth is PoiThumum opus, and cometh out after the death of dandana the Authour :But I hope it will be the more pleating, torevive the o,nnes alii inventi memory of him whole life and labours were defervedly preca- funt. oui in thee11eem of Gods people. And if confcience, thoughfor a while blind, and clumbe, and (eared, and put out of all office, will notwithflanding at left be put into office , and made to fee, f'eak. and feel, to the utter deftrt4lion of an impenitent finner;
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