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treatife
of
C'onfcienee.
their
fumes
and
infirmities,
and take
no
notice
of
Gods
graces
that
are
in
them, and
fo
may mifiake their
own
Pelves,
and
conclude amiflè
of
their ellates.
Thus
J
have
Chewed
you
the
reafons
why
men
are miíaaken
about
their
&ates.
Now
J
will
thew you the
reafons
why
men
are
millaken though
confci-
ence
do
tell
them,
I
.
Becaufe
the
fpeeches
of' confcience
in
the wicked many
times,
yea moll
times,
are
low
fpeeches.
The
gnawings
ofcon-
ícience
whereby
they are
told
they
arc in
a bad
and
a
damned
&ate
are
like
thegnawings
of
a very
little worm that
a
man
tf:44.634.
can
hardly
feel.
iVhers
their
worm
'dieth
not
:
The
word
in
the original!
Ggnifieth a very
little worm
that breedeth
in
fcarlet,
that
a
man
can very
hardly
fee
or perceive
:
fo
men
fometimes do hardly
fee
orperceive
the condemning
and
gnaw-
ing
of
confcience.
Again,
confcience
biteth fuddenly,
as
J
cold
you
;
it
giveth.
a
little
nip,
and
away
:
Like
a
iparrow
that
flieth
by
;
it
flieth
fo
fat+
by
a
mans
eye
that
he
can
farce
tell
whether
it be
a
fp.arrow or
no
:
So
it
is
not
eafily perceived
'whether
it
be
a
condemning
coníèience
or
no
:
it
giveth
finch
fudden nips, and
away, that
men feldorne
take
notice.
Be-
loved,
there
is
never
a
wicked man under heaven
;
unlelfe
he
be
delivered up abfolutely
to
a
reprobate tènfe,
but
hach a
thou-
fand
of
thefe
lùdden
momentary
nips every
day in
the
yeare.
Had
be
the heart
to
obferve
them ( but
be
hath
not)
he
might
fee
his
wretched eaate, to trouble him, and
provoke
him
to
Chrifc,
andto
be
converted
that
God
might
heal him
;
J
fay,
had
he a
hearthe
might
free
it
:
but
there nips are
fo
ferret and
fudden
that
he
loth
not.
So
likewdle
it
is
with
the
godly
in
regard
of
true comfort
:
Their
confcience
fuddenly Rafheth
in
comfort
,
and
they many
times do
not
ohferve
it.
As
Jnb
lob
g:
1z.
fpeaketh
of
God,
Lo,
he
goeth
by
me.
and
I
fee
ht
in not
:
he
paffethon a
/fe,
and
Iperceive
him
not
:
So
doth
the
Lord go
by
his
children
in
the
fudden
gaf'hes
of
comfort
in their confci-
ence,
but many
times they
fee
him
not,
perceive him
not.
2.
Becaufe
the devil blindeth
mens
eyes
therefore they do
not
fee
what
their
con.fciences
do
Phew
them.
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may
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