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Arreatift
o
f
Conf
ience.
any
thing that might
give
it advantage
againft
us.
If
we were
to
appear before
an
earthly
judge
to
anfwer for our behaviour,
and
fhould
have
a
companion
prefent continually with us,mark-
ing every
thing
in
us,
telling
us
of
every
fault,
and
witneffing
it
againtI
us
unto the judge, how
careful would we be
of
doing
any
thing
that
might
give
him
advantage againfi
us
?
Lo,
we
have confcience
as
a
continual
wath-man
,
efpying
out
all
our
wayes,
letting
down
what
ever we
do
amifle,
checking
us
for
it
for
the
prefent,
and
one day
acculing
us
before
God,
and
let
-
ting
all
things
in
order
before our
faces
;
Oh
how fhould we
then
labour
to
get
into Chrilt
Jefús,
that
our
confciences may
be
purged
in his
bloud,and
Rudy all
our
life
long
to
keep
peace
and
friendfhip with them.
Wo
be
to
them
who
live in
their
Eames!
They will need
no
other
witneffe
co
corne
again(}
them
to
condemn them for ever, but
this witneffe
conscience which
lyeth
continually
in
their
bofoms.
This I
have
fpoken
for
the
office
of
confcience, which
is
to
bear
witneffe
either with
us
or
againfl
us
:
Now
the parts
of
this bearing
witnefie
are,ñrfi,
its
angle witneffing
;
fecondly,
its
judicial
witnefling.
By
fingle
bearing
r
itneffe,
I
mean
that
confcience
beareth
witneffe
what
we have
done
,
and
what
we
do,
and what we
intend
to do,
and
what
we
are
:
By
judi-
cial'
bearing
witneffe,
I mean
that
confcience Both
paffe
fenrence
on the
fame
whether it
be
good
or
evil,
whether
it
be
concern-
ing
the
aection
or
the perfon.
Firfi, therefore
of
the
(
ingle
bearing
witneffe
of
confcience;
And
that
is
about three things:
r.What
we have
done: 2,What
we
intend
to
do;
3.
What
is
the
frame and bent
of
our heart.
r.
It
beareth
witneffe
what
we have
done;
what
in
our
childhood,
what
in
our youth, what
in
our
riper
age,
what
o-
penly,
what fecretly.
Thole
things
which fèem
to
be
forgotten,
confcience
will
remember
them
to
us
:
Like
a
writing
in
mar-
ble,
though
it may
be
filled and
choked
with
duff and covered
with rubbifh,
yet
when
that
is
done away,
and
the (lone Iwept
clean,
then the writing
will
appear
legible
;
fo
though
mens
deeds
may
for
the prefent
Teem
to
be
forgotten,
yet
they are
E
a
written
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wit-
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