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Confcieuce

the arrow

of

his

wrath

flicking

in

your

fouls, this

will

adde

forrow to

forrow,

and make your

elute

much

more uncomfor-

table

and unfupportable. Beloved,

peace

of

conscience

is

goad

at

all

times

;

but

it

is

moll

precious

when calamities

fall on

us

:

Then

to

have

the

peace

of

a

good

conlcience

that

may bring

us

good news

from

)eaen,

that

all

is

well within,

all

peace

there,

this

is

filch

peace as

all

the

world cannot

give

nor

fell

nor buy.

Never

more need of

ti,e peace

of

confcience

then

now.

As one

laid

of

the

books

of

Faith, There

be

abundance

of

books

written

offaith

:

buy

them

all

up,

faith he

;

ye

will need

every

one

of

them

ere

long

:

So

may

J

fay

of

whatever may forward

the

peace

of

conscience

;

Buy

it,

purchafe it,

get

it,

as

much

peace

as

you

can poffible

: ye

will

have

need

of

it

all

ere

long. Take

heed

of

troubling

your

confciences or

clogging them

With

guilt,

lefi

the

Lord

caR

you

off,

and

left ye

be

hardned,

and

Co

ye

perith

from

the right

way. Do

not think thus,O

we

are believers,

and

have

no

need

of fuck threatnings.

He

who

is

certain

of

his

iäl-

vation

kifloweth aflMredly

he

fhould

be

damned

if

he

fhould

go

on

in

finne

without

repentance

;

This

if

is

true enough

;

If

the

righteous forfake his

righteoufnsffe,

all

his

former

righteauf-

neffe¡hall

be

forgotten. And,

Woe

is

me, faith

Paul,

If

f

preach

not

the gofpel.

In

the

Rate

of

innocencie

there was

ufe

of

threat

-

nings

:

to

is

there

now

in

the

Rate

of

grace.

The

Lord threatned

Adam

in

innocencie,

If

thou

eat thereof

thou

fhalt

die the

death.

Job

was awed

by

threatnings not

to lift up

his

hand

againí

the fatherleffe

;

fer

faith

he,

f

ru

tion

from

God

was

a terrour

to

me. Aly

flefh,

faith

David, trembleth

for

fear

of

thee, and

Sam

afraid

of

thy

judgements.

Let

us

have

grace,

faith the

Apoflle,

whereby

we

may

ferve

God

acceptably

with

reverence and

godly

fear.

Why

?

for

our

God is

a

confuming

fire.

For be

it

that Gods

children

(

that

is,

all

believers

'

fhall

never

fall

finally away

;

yet this

threatninv

is

one

of

Chrifls

inPruments whereby

he keepeth

them

from f:lling,

:

and they

alto

may

t?ft

of

much

bitterneffe

if

they grow indulgent to their

corruptions.

O

therefore

take

heed

of

this

curfe,

that your

con -

`fciences

may

not dog

you with

the

guikoffinne

and the appre-

henfion