.f( rreatife o f Confcience. I 59 fcience hearing rvitnefe, and their thoughts in the mean time ae- cufing or excufing one another. At the lafi day every man IThall be judged according to his confcience ; a child of God according to his; a carnali man according to his. The Lord (hall abfolve all hischildren, and their own confciences (hall abfolve them. The Lord (hall condemne all the refs, and their own confciences ílxall condemne them. This is the book that every mans life is fet down in : Every paffage ofconverfation both of the godly and the wicked is recorded dayly in this book : And according to what is written therein will the Lord judge every foul at the lafi day, as Rev, 20. ? 2, thedead were judgedout ofthofe things whichwere written in theboolZaccording to their works. The Apo file there fpeakethprophetically, andputteth the pall time for the future ; they were judged, that is, they (hall be judged. So that ye fee that by the judgment of confcience way is madefor the jufl judgment ofGod. II. This íhould be a means to keep us from fin, and to keep us in a holy life : for according to our works fo will be the evi- dences of our confciences, whether they be good or evil. We had need to take heed what we write in our confciences ; for ac- cording to what is written there,fo (hall we be judged. There- fore ifany finne fiandeth upon record in our confciences, we had need get it blottedout by the bloud ofChrifl, Repent , be humbled, begfor pardon, refl not till thou feefl this debt -book confcience cro[fed, and thy finnes Eland there cancelled and dif= charged. THus I have (hewed you the offices of confcience about things heretofore done. Now let me [hew you the atfedi- ons of confcience in the difcharge of thefe offices. Ye have heard that confciencehath foure offices in things heretofore done ; r . an office to approve ; 2. an office to abfolve ; 3. an office to diflike ; 4. an office to condemne ; The two former when we havedone well and lived well ; then the office ofcon- fcience is to approve and abfolve : The two latter whenwe have done ill and lived ill ; then the office of confcience is to miflike and to condemne. Now followeth the affethonsof confcience I 2 in ZJfe. 2,
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