111 / 164
lá
treati
fe
of
Con
f
iencf.
about
it. When
men
are
troubled
in
confcience
and burdened
a
little that
way,
prefently they
daub
all with
peace, and
go a
wrong way to work.
This couric the Lord doth
complaine
of
in
the
falle Prophets
who
preached
too
much
peace
;
They
have healed
the hrsrt
of the
dasghter
of'rny
people
Tightly,
fay
-
ing,
Peace,
peace, when
there
i,
no
pence.
And
ío
they do more
hurt
then good
:
Like
a
C:hirurg
n
that
skinneth
the wound
before
he
giveth
fearching fàlves
to kilt
the matter
of
it
:
after
-
wards
it
breaketh
out
worfe, and
it
isa
hundred
to
one
but
it
will
coif
the
patient
his life
:
So
it
is
wi
h
many
men
:
A.
man
cannot
rare a
little
for
his
finnea,
J
have
been
as
inner,
and what
(hall
J
do?
J
have
been
a beafl,
&c. But,
O, fay
they, believe
man,
Chris
died
for
thee, and
the promife
is
to
thee,
and
God
will
pardon
thee.
Thus
they
heal him
'lightly with
Peace, peace,
and
it
may
be
there
is
no
peace
to
him yet
;
he
had
need
to
be
fearched
more deeply
:
they skinnc the
wound,
and
it
is
a
thou
-
fand
to
one
but
it
lofeth the
mans foul, by
giving
a
cordial!
where
a
corrofive
was
necefiarie.
And
therefore great reafon
that
this
queition fhould
be
anfwercd,
If
a
man have
a
burdened
troubled
confcience,
what
mutt
fuch a
man do to be
freed
from
it?
J
anfwcr,
i
.
Let
him
take
heed
that
he
meddle
not
too
much
with
the
fecret
will
of God,
what
his
decree and
purpotè
is
from
eternity. As loon
as
an arrow
is
!hot
into
the
confience,
and
the
confcience
cometh to
be
humbled
,
commonly
the
heart
layeth about
it,
And
how
if
God
have
reprobated
me? and what
if
he
have
appointed me to
wrath?
how
tben
?
Beloved,
ye
muff
take
heed of
this
:
If
your
hearts fatten upon
reprobation,
that
will
marre
all
;
that will
quite difcourage
a
poore
foul
from
going
to
God.
.
Underfland the word right.
Do
not think
that
becaufe
i
God
bath
not
in
particular named thee, therefore
he
bath
ex-
Ieluded
thee.
Gods
promifes are
made
in
generali
to all
that
believe
:
and they
are
to be
applyed
in
particular to
all
them
that
believe
:
why
then
fhoulda
thou
exclude
thy fell
when
God
Both
not exclude
thee
?
Wouldil
thou have Chrift
?
Chrift
C
c
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