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riiL

t7'eatíf

e

of

Conf

cíence,

confcience

fpeaketh

peace

and

etfeêceth it

;

it

doth not

onely

(peak

it

but

it

puttech

it

into

our

hearts.

It

proppeth

us up

in

all

mileries,

in

(ickneffes, yea in

death

it

Pelf.

A good

conicience

then

rnakech us

hold

up

our

heads

when

all

the

world (hall

be

confounded

:

A good

conicience

will

bear

us

out

again((

r.

Corr

5,

the

King

of

terrours

:

It

is

onely

a

good

con(

ience

that

can

s

S,

f7.

look death

in

the

face,

and tày,

O

death,

where

is

thy

fling?

thanks

be to

God

whogiveth

ur

vi

iorie

through

ear Lord

je

fus

Chrift.

Yea,

at

the

day

of

judgement, when

the

whole

world

(hall

be

burning

before us,

when

the

'great men

of

the

world

who

go in

filks

and

fcarlet

and

broidered

hair

(hall

fear

and

fhiver

as a

reed hhaken

with

the

wind,

this

will

make

us

with

boldneffe undergo the

terrour

of

it. This

will

make

us happie

in

all our

diarefles

:

When

crofles

pelt,us,

and

hcknefle

paineth

us,

and death attatcheth

us

we

are

happie

men.

What

if

we

have the tokens.

of

Gods

wrath upon our

bodies

fo

we have

the

marks

of

his

love upon our fouls

?

What

outward

calamitie

foever

happeneth

to

us, yet

if

we

have this

good

con

kience

we

are

happie.

O

then let

us

labour

to

get

it

by

faith

and

a

holy

life.

If

we

would

be

Café

in

the

floud

-time,

in

the day

of

Gods

wrath,

we mutt

be

buhe

now about

the

ark, we

mutt provide

before

-hand

For

it

:

Nothing but

this

ark will

lave

us in

the

Gen- 4.

deluge

of

Gods anger.

It

is

in

vain

to trouble our

iclves

about

¿o,

other

things

:

Jabal

was

a

merrie

man

;

he

made

pipes

and

organes

:

Jabal

built

tents

;

others planted

vineyards

:

but

Noah

provided

his

ark. Many

delire

comfort

in

hckneffe,

in

death

;

butthey

do not

provide

for it

before

-hand

:

They

look

after

their

(ports or buhneffes

in-

the

world

;

but

this

ark

is

neg

leaed,

this

good

conicience,

without

which

all

men_s

labour

s

vain.

Be

they

what

they

will

he,

in

never tò

much

credit

and

efleern

they

are yet

moll

milerable

when

troubles and

af_

flies

&ions

come on

them,

as

one

day

they

(hall

and

(hall

not

tarrie

;

then all their comforts

will

forfake

them

:

When

death looketh them

in

the

face

: then

their hearts die

within

them. How full

of

pride

and haughtineffe

foevcr

they

were

before, yet

when they

come to

die,

if

their

contèiences

be

awaked

they