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11

treatife

of

Confeience.

what

is

with

a

man.

Now

his

well-

doings or

his

ill

-doings

are

with

him

:

he was

with himfelf when

he did

them.

W

hen

thou art proud,

or impatient, or

careleffe in

any duty, thou art

with

thy

íelf

when

thou

art

fo

:

All thy

ill

-

doings

are

with

thee

:

therefore

thy

confcience muff needs

know what thou

aft.

Ifa

f9.11

Our

tranfgref

ons

are with

us

;

and

su

for

our

iniquities

we

know

tbcm.Take

a

curlir;and,as

Solomon

fàith,7hine

own

heart

«lef.'

knoweth

that

-thou

haft

sired to

curfe others.

So

it is

with

a god-.

zl

ly

foul

:

Thine

obedience

is

with

thee,

and thy

felf-

deniall

is

with

thee, and thy

care

to

walk

before

God,

all

is

with

thee

;

and

therefore

thou

muft needs know

it.

This

is

the nature

of

confcience

;

It

is

privy

to

what

is

with

one.

2.

The

fecond

rea fon

is

taken

from

the

equity

of

Gods judge-

ments on

the

wicked. The

Lord

he

will

judge none

to

hell,

but

his

confcience

(hall

confeffe he

was

one

that walked

in

the

way

to

hell

and death. Ye

may reade

it

in

the

man

that

had

not

qn

the

wedding-

garment

:

When Chria

did

charge

him

with

his

not

having on

a

wedding

garment,

and did

cdndemne

him

to

utter

darkrieffe,

the text

fifth,

he

war

fpeechleffe

;

that

is,

his

Mittb.zz.

confcience

confeffed

that Chrit

}s

judgement was

jufl

:

J

have

13'' not

on

a

wedding

garment,

faith

his

confcience

;

and

it

ra

my

fault

that

I

have

none

;

and

I

am rightly

condemned.

Thus

his

confcience

did

know

it

;

otherwilé

he could

not have

been

fpeechleffe

in

his

own

defence. As

Fes

+us

told Agrippa that

he

41s

i

f'

1

arifvvered

the Priefis,

It

is

not

the manner

of the

Romans

to

de-

16

i

liver

any

man

to dye

before

that

he who

is aecufed

have

his

aecufers

face

to

face,

and

have

licence

to

anfwer

for

himfel

f

con-

cerning the crime

laid againft

him

:

So

may

J

fay,

that

the

great

Judge

of

quick

and

deaa.dvill

not

judge any

man

to

hell

but

he

will

have

his

accufers face

to

face,

and

if

he can

anfwer

for

himfelf

he

may.

Now

ifconfèience

be

not privy

to what

eflate

foever a

wicked man

is

in,

his confcience

could

never

accule

him

face

to

face

at the

lafi

day,

nor

juftifie the

Lord

Jefus,

and make the

(inner

Band

fpeechleffe

before

God.

He

might anfwer, Lord,

J

do

not know any

fach

thing

as

is

laid

to

mr

charge

:

J

am

not

convinced

that

the

cafe

s

thus

and

thaws

with