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A
Treat
fe
of
Confcience.
E
a
poffible
the
fire
fhould
be
without heat,
fo
it
is
impoffible
that
any man fhould
be
without
a
confcience.
Indeed
we
ufe
to
fay,
fuch
a
one
bath
no confcience: but our meaning
is,that
he
hash
no good confcience.But
every
one
bath
a
confciéce
either
good
or
bad.
The Lord ingraved
confcience
in
man when
he
created
him
at firít.True it
is,Gnce
the
fall
of
man confcience
is
miferab-
ly
corrupted;
but man can
never
put it
off;Confcience
continu-
eth
for
ever
in
every
man,
whether
he be in
earth,
or
heaven,
or
hell.
The molt
bafe
and
deviflifh
profanelings
in
the
world
have
a
confcience
:
Let
them
choke
it
or
fmother it
as
much
as
they
can,
let them whore
it, or
game
it,
or
drink
it away
as
much
as
they are
able
for their hearts
;
yet
confcience will
con-
tinue
in
fpight
of
their teeth,
z.
No
length
of
time
can
wear
this confcience
out.
What
made
?ofephi
brethren
to
remember the
cruel
ufage
they
(hew-
ed him
but
confcience
?
It
was
about
twenty
years
before;
yet they could
not
wear
it out.
2.
No
violence
nor
force
is
able
to
fuppreffe confcience,
but
that
one
day
or
other it
will
Phew
it
felf.
What
made
?udas
go
and
carry
back
the money
that
he
betrayed
our
saviour
for,
and allo
to
cry
out,
l
have
finned,
but
confcience
?
No
queftion
but
he
laboured
to
fuppreffeit,but
he could
not.
3.
No
greatneffe
nor
power
is
able
to
flifle
confcience,
but
that
it
will one
day
like
a
bandog
flie
in
a
(inners face.
What
made Pharaoh
cry
out,
I
am
wicked,
but confcience
?
He
was
a
great
King, and
yet
he
was
not
able
to
over
-power
con
-
fi:ience.
4. No
mufick,
mirth
or
jovializing
can
charm confcience,
but
it
will play
the
devil
to
a
wretched
foul
for
all
that. What
was
the
evil
fpirit
that
came
upon
Saul
of
melancholly, but
confcience? He
thought
to
allay
it
with
inftruments
of
mufick,
but
it
Bill
came again.
5.
Death it
felf
is
not
able
to part
confcience
from
a
tanner.
What
is
that
worm
that
fhall
never
dies
but only
confcience
?
and
in hell confcience
is as
that
fire
that
never
goeth out.
I
confefle
fome
feeme
to
have
loft
confcience
quite
;
They
D
can