66 ( A rreatife o fConfcience. Job.ZI. z.3. E zek. 44,23* Ifa.57,19. vtrf, 12, lewd houles, into all places ; who fo merry and brisk , and heart-whole ( as they fay , as they who have no laving grace ? Yet 2. this quiet confcience in them mull needs differ from the quiet confcience of the children of Cod. Certainly the Lord will not give the childrens breadunto dogs ; neither will he fmile upon their foules; neither doth he pardon the finnes nor ac- cept the perlons ofthe ungodly : And therefore if they have a quiet confcience, it muff needs differ from that in the godly. Muff not copper needs differ from gold ? And we who are the Lords meflengers mull teach you the difference : They 'hall teach my people the difference between the holy and the profaine. Now the quellion is this, Wherein lyech thedifference between the quiet confcience of the righteous and the quiet confcience of the wicked ? An(zr. The difference between them lye th in foute things : i. In the thing it fell; a. In the caufe ; 3. In . the effe& ; 4. In the continuance. I, In the thing it felfe. The quiet confcience in the godly is double; not onely apparentiall and nominal, but reall and fubflantiall : it is quiet and quiet too, peace and peace too: I create thefruit ofthe lips, peace, peace. Mark ; peace and peace too ; peace in appearance, and peace in truth and fubitance allo. But the peace and quiet ofconfcience which the wicked have is not fuck peace : It is peace and no peace peace in ap. pearance, but no peace in truth. Their god is the god of this world, andhe perfwadeth them theyhave peace : But my God,, faith theProphet,fpeaketh otherwife : There is no peace to the wicked faithmy god. They talk of a good confcience fome- times, and boat} they have a good confcience ; but the truth. is, they cannot have true peace within : for faith the Prophet, . the wicked ù like the troubledfea which cannot refl,whofe waters caft up mire and dirt. So doth a wicked mans confcience fecret- lycat up mire and dirt in hisface : His peace can onely be out- ward andapparentiall. I!. The re is a difference in the caufe. The quiet of a good' confcience arifeth from one caufe, and the quiet of a. bad con- faiencearifeth from another, i The
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