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treatife
of
Cmrfczence.
Ao`tr ay,.
i<s.
Canfci-
eneo
inter
lincth.
Ath
s4,
sf
hare
folemnly dealt
with
him indeed
:
but
he
thut
red
it
off,
and
would
not find time
; Go
thy way
at
this time,
faith
he
to
Paul
;
t
will
heare thee
at
a
more
convenient time. And
fo
he
Paid
to
his
confcience
too.
Conlcience
would
take
a
folemn
and
fet
time
to
inform men
what
their
efcaces
are
;
but
men
will
not
fuflcr
them
:
and
therefore confcience
is
fain
to take
fuch
fuddeiz
times
as it
can
get.
Ye will
ask,
What
times be they
?
anfwer.
Firft, when
confcience
interlineth:
As
for
example,
in
the
hearing
of
the word
:
While
men are hearing the
word,
it
may
be the
Preacher preacheth
of
holineffe,
and
a
wicked
man
heareth
it
;
But
y
have
it
not, faith
his
confcience.
M. rk ;
his
confcience
inteilineth.
It
may
bethe
preacher
is
preaching
how defperately
careleffe men are of
their
fouls
hcwv
they
look
to
every
thing
more then
to them
;
conieience
irate,
l
inerh,
This
is
my
cafe.
it
may
be he
is
preaching againft
Aduherie;
I
his
firms
JI
have c.srmitteol
faith
a
guiltie
confcience
:
or againfi
ruffling upon
Gods
ordinances
without
preparation
;
Ibr:
is
my
conftant courfe, faith an evill
mans
conscience.
It
may
b
the
preacher
is
preaching
of
conver(ïcn and becoming
a
new
creature
in Chrif}
;
this
I
am
yet
to
Peek,
in,
filth
Con science:
Thus
confcience
inter
lineth
:
Though
the
Irian
heareth on, an
it
may
be
taketh
lit,le
to
heart, yet
confience
interlineth
a
fud-
den information
of
his
wretched cflate. Like
a
bird
that
flied.
loy,
or
like
a
fwïft
-fhor,
arrow, that
is
prefncc1y
out
of fight,
fo
it
may
be
a
man taketh
very lirtic notice
of
it.
Like
the
fore-
named
Felix
:
as
Paul
was preaching
of
righteoufheffe and
tempereance,
I
kawe
it
not, faith his con
fierce
;
and
ofjed7e.
ment
to
come, What
fbóall
I
do
then
?
faith his con (cience.
Thus
confcience interlined,
and
made
him
tremble
on
t
fúdden like
a fiidden
fhivering
of
a
cold,
or
a
fudden
fhrtle
of
a
man
af.
frighted, and
away
it
was gone
quickly.
J
befeech
you
obferve
your
own
bofhmes.
Do
ye
not
feel
this
now
and
then
at
a
fermon,
when ye
heare
it
?
do not your
conicietices
interline
can
sermons
and put
in
parenthefes
now
and t
-:en
?
When
ye
heare
iirch
and
filch
a
fin
reproved;cord°mned,
And
this
is
myfrn,faith'
conscience
:
when
ye beam
thefè
and
thefe graces
coalmen
ed,
Ared