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treatife

of

C'nfeienee.

ence

will

fay,

nu

have

no

part

in

therm.

When

you

heare

the

word, any

promife or

comfortable

paffage

in it,

your

conscience

will

fay,

rt.,

this

it

my

miff?*

;

have

ns

fhare

ix

theft

thtngs. [his will

be a

hell

unto you,

and

will

torment

you

befóre

your time.

This

will

alto'

make all outward

good things

bitter

unto you

:

When

you

fee

wife and children and friends,

then

conscience

will

whifper and fay,

l

fhall

not

have

theft

long

:

ere

long

,3goal/

have

none

but

damned

tompanic.

When

you fie your goods,

efiatcs, and the

Ike,

conscience

will mut-

ter,

Alas;

ere

long

I

flu

ll

h

in

a

place where

a

drop

of

water

í116411

Not

be

affordedme

to

cool my

tongue.

When

you

lee

the

light

and other

comforcable

objc

Cts, O

xi+o

is

me

;

l

(hall

fhortly

be

is

a place where

IAll'

fee

nothing

but

dark,nejre,

utter

and

everlaflrng

darkneffe.

Conleieñce

will

make your

afflitions

intolerable, your ficknc«e intolerable, your death-bed intole-

rable, the

face

of

death intolerable.

Jr

beicech

you,

brethren,

confider

thefe things, you

that

have

not

felt

a

troubled

confci-

ence

untill

this

houre,

Ye

hardly

know

yet

what

it

is

:

ye

will know

it

to

your furrow,

if

you

do not

cenlider it.

There

is

a

phraie

in

Ezek.

;).

24.

where

Gad

faith, he

will

make

Pharaoh groxe w,th thegrahrngs

of

a

man deadly

worarded

:

So

it

will

be with

you,

if

you will

n,

t

hearken and liibmit

to

Jeths

Chrifi

;

contcience

will

make

you grone

with

fearful!

grove;

;

O

ivo

is

me,

Jam

un,tone,

without

hope, w thoart

remedie.

Con-

fider

this

therefore,

and

be wife, before

Me

things which concern

your

peace be

hidden from

you.

And

let me the rather exhort you to

this in

regard

of

the Exbor-

danger

of

the times.

The

Lords

wrath

is

gone out, and

his

tarsos.

judgements do

fLe

through the earth,

and

his

plagues do fall on

every

fide

of

us

:

What

will

your guil:ie

confeiences

do

now

?

oh

you

can never

endure

them.

Ye

h

id need

of

purged contèi-

ences

now

lea

ye

be

quite

comfortleffe

in

the

day ofvifitation.

How miferable

is

their

cafe

who

want

the

peace

of

contcience

in

the

time

of

dare&

?

When

troubles and

" l

C

¿ions

are

with

-

'out.

then

how

grievous

is

it

to want

peace

and comfort

with-

in

?

Wien

Gods

mortal! arrows

are

in

your

bodies,

then

to hive

B

b

2

the