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A
T
reatife
of
Confcience.
written
in
their
hearts with
a
pen
of
iron and the point
of
a
diamond
,as
Ori
gin
ob(erveth upon
T
er
17.1.
Now
the thoughts
and
cares
of
this
life
put
them
our
of
our
minds
;
but the time
will come when
all
worldly
but-1110'e
(hall
ceafe,
and
the
onely
butines
(halbe
to
look
into
the records
of
confcience.We
ore
to
fey,
Confcience bath
a
very
good
memory.
The chief
Butler
had
forgot
his
promife
unto
p
reph;
but
his
conscience
remem
bred him
of
it
two
yeers
after
:
1
remember
my
faults
thr4
dray,
faith
his
confcience.
Adonibrzek
had
forgot
his
cruelty
;
but
his
confcience
brought
it
to
his
mind
..
As
d
have
done
fo
God.
Iag.
t
7
hath re(mited
me,
faith
his
confcience.
2.
Confcience
beareth
witneffe
of
what
we
intend
and
pur-
pole to
do, whether
againll
God
or
man.
It
will teftifie
every
purpofe and
project
of
the
heart
though it
be
never
a
&ed,,
though
it die
in
the
heart
and
never come
to
light.
Men
little
think
of
this
:
Tr
f7,9
( faith
one
)
I
never
didfilch
a
thing,
though
I
once
intended
it,
or
hadfame thought about
it.Mark;
thole
very
thoughts
wil confcience
bring
forth
and teflifie
what
they were.
;Zmm.2.16
Heare
the
Apoftle;
in
that
day God
(hall judge
the
fecrets
of
men,
&c.
The
moll hidden things confcience íhall bring
to
light,'
and
Chrifi
íhall
judge
them.
3.
Confcience
beareth
witneffe
of
the
bent
and frame
of
our
hearts
,
what
we
aflea
molt
and
love
molt,
and rejoyce
and
delight
in
moll,
and delire
molt
and grieve
for molt,
what
our
affecîions
runne upon
molt, whether
upon
God or the
world,
whether upon
heaven
or
the things
of
this
life.
Confcience
bare witneffe
to
David,
that
his
delight
was in
the
law of the
Lord,that
God
was
his
portion,
that Gods
flames
were
his
Pf
119,77
counfellours. Confcience bare
wrtnef
e
to
the falle
teachers
in
Chrifts time,
that
they
affected vain
glory
and
the
praife
of
men
more then the
praife
of
God.
Confcience
bare
witneffe
to.
'Dew/
4,
that notwithftanding
his
fair
profeffion
his
heart
was
let upon the
world.
Confcience bare
wrenelle
to
J
ehu,that
for
all his
feeming zeal
his
heart was
not
upright.
But
it
may
be
obje&ed, How
can
this
be
?
The heart
is
de-
Objei
.
t
'
above
all things
: who
can
%aoW
it
?
Ter.'7.9.
1
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