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i.
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3,
z.The
ju
dicial
bear.
A7
reatif
e
o
f
Confcience,
This
arifeth
either
from the ftrength of
corruption
and
weakneß'e
of
grace
:
We
look
into our
felves,
and
fee
our cor-
ruptions
violent,
and
our love
to
God
(mall;
and
fo
we
are
deceived,
not
feeing
the
radicali
power
of
this love
of
God,
which
in
regard
of
its
vertue
is
Rronger
then
the other
:
As a
fool, if
he
fhou'. d
feel
hot water,
would conclude
that
there
is
no
cold at
all in
it,
whereas there
is
radical!
cold
in
that
wa-
ter,
fuch as
will expel! all
that heat
in
little
fpace.
Or
elk
this
arifèth
from
anguifh
of
fpiric, which
It)
diRurbeth the
minde,
that
it
cannot
fee
its
own
condition,nor
be
capable
of
the
com-
forts
belonging
unto
it;
as
it
was
with the Ifraelites,
E'xod.6.9.
otherwife doubtleffe
we may
know our
own hearts
;
and
when
our
confcience
beareth witnefle,itswitnefle
is
right.
I.
Ufe,of
reproof
to
a.hofe
who
Rand
out
againff
the witnefle
of
their
confcience, and like heard
-
hearted
felons plead
Not
guilty, though
never
fo
much
evidence
come
against
them,
though
confcience
oft
tell them,
this they have
done,
thus they
do,
fuch
they are.
Oh flop
not
your
Bares
again[}
confcience;
Rand
not
out
againR it,
but
beleeve its
teftimony,and
make
ufe
of
it
to repent of
the
evill
it acculeth
of
while mercy may
be
had, before
God
himfelf corneal
and
joyneth
with
confcience
to
condemn
for
ever.
I[.
Ir
ferveth
for
fingular
encouragement
to
all
to
abound
in
good works,
Conscience will
bear
witnelfeof
them
all
to
our
unfp:akable comfort
in
the
time
ofaf
iaions,yea
at death
and
judgment.
yob
felt it
a
fwect thing
to
have confcience
give in
teflimony
of
his
integrity
and
uprightnefle. When
his
friends
proved
miferable comforters, and
God
himfelf
feemed
to
write
bitter
things
againfi
him
,
yet
his
confcience
witneffed
that
he
had
been
eyes
to
the blind, and
feet
to
the
lame,
he
had fed
the
hungry,
and
clothed
the naked, and
comforted
the
fatherle
fie.
There
is
not
a
good thing
that
ever we
do
but
confcience will
afford
us
the fweetnefle and
comfort
of
it
in
our troubles
:
Re-
member,
O
Lord, faith Hezekiah,
that
I
have
walked before thee
in
truth
and
With
a
perftc`l
heart.
We
have spoken
of
confciences
Tingle
bearing
wtrnefie
:
l\ow