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A
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o
f
Corticience.
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eth
us
bound
in
the fpirit
to do
it
;
as
'Paul
fai
d,
Igo
bound
in
the
fpirit
to
do
it. See
how
importunate
this faithful
confcience
was
with
the
Pfalmift
:
I
will
not
give
fleep to mine
eyes ,
nor
Humber
to mine
eye.
lids,
until
I
find
out
a place
for
the
Lord.
It
will
not
take
any
nay,
fay
we
what
we
will
:
fay
we be
(leepy,
fay
we
be
bu(e,
fay
we
bé
loth
and full
of
excufes,
it
will
be
importunate,
and
that
with
vehemency.
It
will
follow
a
man
if he
will
not
hear
it,
with
a
hue
and cry
of
inward
checks.
It
will
fometime promife; fometimes
threaten,
urge
us
with
hope,
fear,
danger,
&c.
As
we
would
be
Paved,
we muff
do
this
;
As
we
would
efcape
the
wrath
to come,
we
muff
forbear
that.
Thus
importunate
is a
faithful confcience.
I.
We
fee
here
what
a
great
blefïï.ngit
is
to
have
fuch
a
faith-
ful conf cience,
fuch a
faithful friend
in
our
bofome,
which
will
be
careful
to
tell
us
of
all
our duty,
and
perfwade
us
to
it;
and
ofevery
evil,
and
diffwade
us
from
it,
It
will
not
flatter
us
in
any
thing, but tell
us
plainly, This ye
fhould
do;
this
ye
fhould
not
do.
It
regardeth
not
what
pleafeth
us;
but
what
is
good for
us,
that
it
looketh to,
and
that
it
perfwadeth
to,
and
that
it
ur-
geth.
O
what
a
bleflìng
is
this
1
This blefling had
thofe
willing
Ifraeiites who
gave
fo
freely and largely
towards the
building
of
the Tabernacle. The
text
faith,
that
their heart
ftirred
them up
:
and their
fpirit
made them willing.
Mark
;
their
heart
(that
is
,
their
confcience)
Jirred
them
up
;
Ye
have bracelets
;
offer
them,
faith confcience
:.
Ye
have
ear
rings
and
jewels,
&c.
part
with
them
too,
faith
confcience,
to
furth_r
this
pious work
in
hand
Their
fpirit
made
them wil-
ling; Their
faithft
l
friend
in
their
bofome,
confcience
over-
came them with arguments
and
firong
perfwafions.
This
is
a
grear
blelTing
to
have
fuch
a
faithful
confcience
:
It
will make
a
man
part
with
all his
lulls,
pride, felf-love,
covetousnefhe,car.
nal
delights, for Gods
glory and
our
own true good.
II.
Ir
is a
figne
that God
meaneth well
to
that
may
to
whom
he
path
given
a
faithful
conscience.
O
this
is
an Angel
-
keeper
indeed. Did
not
ChriII mean well
to
his
Church
in
the Can-
ticles,
when he
gave
her
filch a
confcience
as
carried her on
wheels
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