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7.
A
ten-
der
confci-
ence.
I
Sam;
24,
5..
r
Sam.
6.
t9,.
Numb
Z
y
s,
A
flee
py confci-
ence.
A
Treatife
ofConfcience.
in
the
difcharge
of
thefe
offices;
and they
arefoure
:
T.
A
tender
confcience
;
2.
A
fleepie confcience', 3.
A
benumbed confcience
;
4.
A
feared confcience.
Firft,
a
tender
confcience
;
that
is
, a
confcience
touched
with
the leaft
Caine,
and
checking
us
for the
leaf{
finne
;
as
for
vain
thoughts,
exorbitant
paflìons,
idle
words,
and the like.
Such
wasDavids
confcience,which fmote
him
for cutting
off
the
lap
of
Sails
garment.
Such
was
Zacchem
his
confcience,
which
troubled
him
for
fuppofed
finnes
:
If
1
have wronged
any man,,
faith
he. He did
not
know
;
but
his
confcience
was
fo
tender
that
it
made
him careful!
of
ifs.
This
tender
confcience
is
a fin
-
gular blefling
of
God
:
And
if
we
desire
to
attain unto it
we
mull labour
to
fee
the
odioufnefie
of
finne,
yea the malignity
and exceeding
evil
there
is
in the
leaft
finne
:
this
will make
us
tender
of
it. Secondly,
we
mutt labour
to
mourn
for
every
fin
though it
feem
little
:
this alfo
will
keep
our
confciences
tender.
And
we have
great
caufe
to
prize
a
tender
confcience.
What
got
the Bethfhemices
by
riot being
tender
in
confcience
?
They
looked
into
the Ark,
and
becaufe
they
durft
venture upon
it,the
Lord
(mote
fifty
thoufand
of
them
at
once.
What
got
the man
that gathered
flicks
on
the
Sabbath
for
not
being
tender
in
con-
fcience
?
He
was Honed
to
death.
Confcience
fhould
tender the
leaf)
commandment
of
God,
and
fo be
tender
of
the commit-
ting the
leaf) finne.
This confcience
is a
great
bleffing.
The
fecond
affe
hon
of
confcience
is
ileepinef
e.
A fleepy
confcience
is
not
fo
quick
in
finking
us as
it
ought
either
it
checks
not,
or
elfe
with
fuch
faintneffe
that it
worketh
not
up-
on
us,ic
maketh
us
never
the
more
watchful!
againfl
Gnne.
This
we
fee by
many
who
can
commit
fuch
finnes
without trouble
or
difquiet
as
would bring
others
on their
knees
and make
them
.
walk
heavily
long
atter.This
fleepy
confcience
is
very
dangerous:
it
maketh men
as
ready
to
fall
into
the
fame finnes
to
morrow
as
to
day,
and
next
day
as
to morrow
:
it
letteth
them
fee
their
faults, but amendeth none
becaufe
this
is
fuch
a
confcience
as
doth
not
caufe
men
to
feel
the burden
of
their
finnes.
A
man
can
never
come
to
Chrifl
as
long
as
he
hath
a
fleepy confcience
;;
becaufe.