Yreatife of C'on fciencea 103 conscience, Cain crieth out of more then he can bear. Judäs thought to find more care in hell then in his own heart So terrible was thè tortureof his troubled confcience, that he mur- dered him felt; thinking verily that hell could not be worfe. 2. Sec here what an infinite mifery every (inner fhall one V 2. daybe in. Though he be riot troubled with this harpye for the' present, though he be not yet gafleredwith this furious hag yet the day will come when he fhall : J fáÿ the time will come when all ye that ate wicked (hall be haunted with this hellifli agony of a troubled conscience ; either here before ye die, or w ben ye die, or at the furtheft when your ibuls are de- parted out of your bodies : This is unavoydable to all that live and continue in linne. Though for a while ye live in mirth and pleafure and fecuritie, and conscience let eth you alone ; though like Nabal to day ye fear and make merit ; yet there is a conscience within you, an Abigail which to morrow will tell ycu of it, and then your hearts will die withinyou and be like (ones, as cold and as heavie as a ¡torte within you. As Sam- el met with Sad, liecsaufe thou haft forfak.în ti-e lord, the Lord alfo bathforpken thee : So conscience will find you out. How- ever for a while ye flight and re-steel- it, or el f& perhaps 1 up- preff: it, yet it will find you out, ^s Eliah didAhab, and.then ye will fay. as he did, Nat thou found me. Omice enemy? yea, 1have found thee : Thouhaft fold thy felftowork wick!dneffe in the rg33t of the Lord : thou haft been aprofane beaft, thou haft runne againfl heaven; and egainft God andrhriff ; and thy life hallo beenfu:'l of rebellions, &c. new Jhavefound thee out; The day will come when thy conscience fhall be like Jobs tees ginger. Ye know what news the meffengers brought Job ; firft news of one great evil, and then of another greater, and then of a thirdwarfl of all ; cattel and good; taken away, fr- vants dead, fònries and d: ughters dead, J one y area left alive , to tell thee : So, J ray. the time will come ws el confeience (l-fall thus report, Thy pleafurecare dead ; thy-prep.'s are dead ; thy conccorts are dead ; thy heart is dead ; thy foul is curfed, and muff die . for ever;, and 3-one ÿ am left alive to tell thee : B b And
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