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A
í7
reat
fe
o
f
Confczence.
can
omit good
duties
as
though
they
had
no
confcience
at
all
:
they
can
deferre repentance
and
turning
to
God
as
though
they
had
no more
confcience
then
a
beat}
:
but one
day confci-
ence will
appear
,
and
Phew
plainly
that
it
was
prefent
with
them
every
moment
of
their
lives,
and privy
to
all
their
thoughts,
and all
their
ways,
and
fet
before them
all
the things
that
they
have
done.
Be
men never
fo
fecure and fenfeleffe, and
feared
for the prefent,
confcience will
break
out
either
firft or
laft
:
Either here or
in
hell
it
will
appear to
every man
,
That
he
hath
and
ever
had
a
confcience.
Now the
reafons
why
God
did
plant
a
confcience
in
every
man living,are,
1. Becaufe
the
Lord
is a
very
righteous Judge
:
And
as he
commandeth earthly Judges
not to
judge
without
witnefe
:
fo
he
himfelf
will
not
judge without
witnefte, and
therefore
he
planteth
a
confcience
in
every
one
to
bring
in
evidence
for
him
or
againft
him
at
Gods
tribunal.
2.
Becaufe
the Lord
is
very merciful.
We
are
wondrous for-
getful
and mindleffe
of
God
and
of
our own
fouls,
and
have
need
to
be
quickned up
to
our duties;
therefore
the
Lord
hath
given every
one
of
us a
confcience
to
be
a
continual
monitour.
Sometime
we
forget
to
pray,
and then confcience
putteth
us
in
mind
to
go
to God
:
fometime we are
dull in
the
duty,
and
confcience
is
as
a
prick
to
quicken
us,
Sometime our
paflions
are diftempered, and
then
confcience
checketh and command
-
eth
us
to
bridle
them. We
fhould never
be
kept
in
any
order
if
it were
not
for
confcience
:
Therfore
bath the
Lord
in
mercy
given
us a
confcience.
The
firft
ufe
is
to
condemn
that
diabolical
Proverb
com-
mon among
men;
Con/
ienee is
hanged a
great
while ago.
No,
no
;
Achitophelmay hang himfelf, but
he
cannot
hang
his con-
fcient
Sass!
may
kill
himfelf, but
confcience
cannot
be
kil-
led. Jr
is
a worm
that
never
diet),
As
the realonable foul
of
man
is
immortal,
fo confcience alfo
is
immortal.
2.
This
condemneth
fuch
as
go
about to
fuppreffe confcience
their
confcience
maketh them
melancholick
&
lumpifh now
&,
then:.'