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.c>t

treatife

of

Confcience.

109

and

peace

together,

z.

Cor,

i

3.

i

,

The

Cod

of

love

and

peace

be

with

you.

If

he be

the

God

of

love

to

us,

it

is

fire

enough

he

will

be

the

God ofreace alto

:

lfwe

know

once

that

God

loveth us, then we may

let

our

hearts

at

refs

:

As long

as

we

doubt

of

his

love our

conicience can

never

have

true

peace

:

And

therefore

if

we would

maintein true peace

of

confcience

let

us

labour

to be

affùred

of

Gods love.

Thirdly,

We

mutt

ufe

the

exercifè

of

faith

in

applying the

bloud

of Chritf;

we

muff labour to

purge

and

cleante

our

consèiences

with it.

If

we

find

that we

have finned,

we muff

runne preféntly

to

the

bloud

of

Chri1f

to

wafh away

our

tonne.

We

muff not

let the

wound

fetter

or exulcerate, but pretently

get

it

healed.

As there

is

a

fountain

of

fnne

in us,

fo

there

is

a

fountain of merciein Chritf,

fetopenfor

Judah

and 7crufalem,

'Zecb.r3,r.

and

for every

poore

iòul

to

wafh

in. As

we

finn.c

dayly,

fo

he

juffifieth

dayly,

and we muff davly go to

him

for it

As

every

day we

runtae into

new debts,

fo

the Lords

prayer teacheth

us

every

day to

beg forgiveneffc

:

We

muff every

day

eye

the

brazen

ferpent.

Juffification

is

an

ever

running fountain. and

therefore

we cannot look to have

all

the

water

at once.

A

fountain

ever

runneth anew

;

fo

juffification

ever

floweth

anew,

and we muff go

to it.

Chriff

is

a

Prie/

for

ever

after

the

order

of

Melchifedec.

O

let

us fue

out every

day

a

dayly par-

don

of

eourfe

!

Let

us

not

fleep

one

night

without

a

new

pardon.

Better

fleep

in

a

houle

full

of

adders

and venemous

beaffs

then

fleep in

one finne.

O

then

be

lure

with

the

day

to

clear the

fìnnes

of

the

day

:

Then

(hall

our

confcience

have

ObjeE.

true

peace.

But

how

if

J

have

relapfed

?

what

fhall

J

do

then

?

J

anfwer, Every man

that

falleth

dorh

not

fall

on

all

Sol.

foure,as

we

ilk

to

fay

:

he

doth

not

fall

quiet

:

There

be

degrees

of

falling.

As

in

a

lick

man though

he be

ill

yet

he

is

not by

and by

dead

;

tome

life

remaineth ffill, which

will

look out

to-

wards health

again

:

fo

there

is

fo

much

life

in

juifification

as

to

recover thee

again.

Be

contfant

therefore

in

this courfe

:

Ever

go

to Chriff,

ever

wafh

in

this

fountain,

ever

bring thy

foul hi-

ther

to

be eleanfed

;

and

then

thy

confcience ever

fhall

have

_eace.

Fourthly,'

Anfir.

3.