treatife Cofeience, 8 an unquiet Coífcience. j Have already handled a quiet Confcience. I come now to j fpeakof a troubled and unquiet contcience : Concerning which I íhall (hew you three things : I. What it is ; 2. The degrees of it ; 3. Tne difference ofthetrouble that maybe in a good and that may be in a bad confcience. I. What a troubled confcience is. Ic is a confcience accutiug for finne, and affrighting with. apprehenfions of Gods wrath, And here I would have you confider two things : i. What, are the caufes of it ; 2. Wherein in confifteth. Fir(+, The caufes of it are thefe five. I . The guilt of finne : When a man hash done evil, and his confcience do:h know it, then doth the confcience crie guiltie : when be knoweth it, faith the text, then he/hall beguilty. This is it which woundeth and pierceth confcience ; this is crre fad voyce of confcience. Like Judas ; I have finned in betraying the innocent blood : Like Cain ; My finne u greater then can beforgiven. So the brethren of Jofèph; We are guilty, fay they, concerning our brother. It is like the head of an arrow flicking in the ile(h, or like a dreadful' obica continually prefenting it fell before our eyes My finne u ever before me, faith David. When we have traniáreflèed Gods law, and our confcience can cry guiltie, when theguilt of finne lieth upon confcience, this is one caufe of the trouble of it. 2. Another caufe is the apprehenfion of Gods wrath for finne : When knowing that we have finned and offended God, we apprehend his wrath in our minds, and behold the revenging eye ofhis ju{lice againtl us. This is a very grievous thing, iò terrible that no man or angel i= able to abide it : As we iee the Kings a d Poxrtates, the in,ghty men ofthe earth call for the mr:u.itaines to fall upon them and the hills to cover them from the wrath of 64, Rev .6.15.16. Whenwe have incurred Gods ditplebfure and our contciences fee it, when his A a anger What it is. Genft. S.4 Glen 41.2.1 P114'.;.)
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