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A
Treatife
o
f
Con
fcience.
then,
and
they go about
to flake
it
off.
Alas
!
why do
you
go
about
that
which
is
utterly impotlible
?
Ye may fùppreffe
it
for
a
while,
and
gagge
it
for
a
while
:
but
ye can
never (hake it
off.
Confcience flicketh
fo
clofc
that
a
man
may
afloon (hake off
himfelf
as
his
confcience. And
indeed
his
confcience
is
him
felf
:
Coc.
Leta
man
examine
himfelf,
that
is,
in
his
confcience.
71,sdge
in z8.
your felves,that
is,
Judge
in
your
confciences.
verle
r;.
Thirdly, this confuteth that drunken opinion.
That
conici-
Vie
3.
ence
is
nothing but
a
prefent
fit
of
melancholy.
No
:
it caufeth
it
may
be
the prefent
melancholick fit, but
it
is
not
it.
Con.
fcience
is
a
fianding
power
in a
man
that
is
evermore
with him,
and
will
evermore judge
him
and
condemne
him
if
he be guil-
ty
before
God.
It
will be with
him
when
his
dumpifh
tit
is
over. Let
him laugh
and
be
merry
;
yet
confcience
lies
at
the
bottome
of
all,
and will fpoil all
the mirth.
Let the
drunkard
be
never
fo jovial
;
I
will
not
believe but confcience
in
the
midi}
of
that
drunken mirth
caufeth fome fadneffe
within,
and Prov
1 ..
telleth
him this
is
a
very wicked life. Let
the carnal hypocrite
13
daub
up
the
matter
with
good
duties, and
good Prayers,
and
good
hopes;
I
cannot
believe
but there
is
a
confcience
lieth
at the
bottome
and
telleth
him he
is
rotten for
all
this.
You
may
fee
this
in
Cain;
He
had been
at
a
good
duty facrificing
to
the
Lord
;
but
his
countenance
fell
when
he
had
done, con-
Gen.
4.5'.
fcience
did lie at the
bottome,and
did
tell,
him
God
did
not
ac-
cept
him. Confcience
is
with
evil
men
at
Church, at
Sermon,
at Sacrament, and
telleth
them fecretly
that
they
are not
the perfons
to
whom
the blefiing
of
thefe
ordinances
be-
long.
Lafily,
this may be
for
exhortation
to
the
godly; That
they
Vie
4
would confider this,
that
they
have
ever
a
confcience
within
them,
and
that therefore
they would labour always
to
keep it
void
of
offence
:
which was Pauly exercife,
As
24.
i6.
Take
heed you
offend
not your
confciences in duties
of
piety
towards God,in
your prayings,hearings,&c.no nor
in
your
cal.
brigs,
eating, drinking, liberties, recreations
=
Look
always
to
your
confciences
that
you offend
them
not,
becaufe
they
are
D
2
ever