d treati,fe of f C'onfcienee, ) the fear offome vengeance which they bean to look for ; /was afraid, faith Adam, verfe I o. This three- frringed wLip ye may fee alto was upon the confcience of Cain after he had Hain his brother : His confience was whipt. a .With the guilt ofGnne; .My f nne ù greater then can beforgiven : 2. With theappre- henfion ofGods wrath ; From thyfact, O Lord, 011n I hid 3. With the expe6tation ofdeath and ofjudgenietnt ; Itfball coon to paffe that every oxe thatfindeth mefhallflayme. Thus j have fbewedyou what a troubled confcience is. The degreesofa troubled confcience. II. He next thing I promifed to fhew is the degrees of a troubled confcience. A troubled confcience hath divers degrees : For fome confciences are more troubled then other fume. i. TheEft degree is filch a degree as may be in Gods children : and this arifeth not fo much from the apprehenfioiñ of Gods wrath as from ti,e guilt ofGnne : Their confciences grieve and are troubled to think that they have finned and offended the Lord God. Thus we fee Davidcould not be at quiet : Although Nathan had cold him from Godtnar his finne was forgiven , , yet his confcience Hill troubled him : Again' thee oxely have I finned, and done this evil in thy fight. faith he. I grant the confciences ofGods children are troubled at the epprehen(on of Gods anger ; bac t hen it is his fatherly anger: not the anger of an enemy. Though fbr a fit they may féem to apprehend that too, yet mof}iy it is for that they have provoked their loving Father to anger againft them. A father maybe angry with his child out of love ; and fo the Lord may bewith his dear children. The Lord was angry withme too, faith lvlofes , Deut. T. p. 0 let not my Lord he angry, faith Abraham the father of the faithful. OGod of bolls how long milt thoube angry with thypeople thatprayetb, faith the PfA- mtfl. Sometimes the Lord ìs angry ,.rich the prayers of his people; but it is in love, becaufe he would have them pray better, and obey better, and look to their tîanding better. Now A a z the Pfal.sr.4
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