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A
Treatife
of
Gor
fcience.
6r
becaufe
it
doth
not
caufe
fin
to
be
burdenfome. They
who
have
this
confcience can fleep
for
all
it, and
eat and drink
and
be
mer-
ry
for
all
it
:
Now
a
man can
never come
to
Chrift
that
is
not
burdened
with
his
finne,
that
he
cannot
bear
it,
cannot
be
quiet
for it, cannot
fleep
for it
:
then Chrift calleth
him,
Come
unto
me
all
ye that
are weary and heavy
laden,
and
I
trill
eafe
you.
A
benumbed confcience
;
that
is,
fuch
a confcience
as is
in
a
deep
fleep. This
differs
from the
former
in
degree.
you
know
there
is
a
leffe
fleep,
and
there
is a
greater
fleep
:
There
is a
left
fleep,
when
only the
outward
fenfes
are bound
;
and
there
is
a
fleep
when
their
ward
fenfes
are bound
too. Now
a
benumbed
confcience
is a
confcience
that
is
in
a
deep fleep;
Preach
to
it,
it
mourneth
not
;
cry
to
it,
it
lifteneth
not
:
This
is
a
benumbed confcience.
Nor
the greatnefle
o
Gnne,
nor
the
wrath of
God
denounced againfi it can move it.
Men
can
know
themfelves guilty
of
fuch
and
fuch
finnes,
and
yet
not
lay
them
to
heart
:
confcience never
telleth them
about
it.
Thus
the Apotlle fpeaketh of thofe
who knew
the judgment
of
God,
that
they
Which
commit
fuck
things
are
worthy
of
death,
yet not
onely
do
the
fame,
but have pleafure in
them
that
do
them:
Their
confciences
though
informed,
and
in
fome meafure
knowing,
the
evil
of
their
courfes
and
the
l
verity
of
Gods judgment,
yet
let
them go
on
'till,
and
not
only commit
the
evil
them
felves,
but
delight
to
fee
others
as
bad
as
themfelves.
Such
are our
(-wearers,
and
drunkards,
and
company-keepers;
&c.
This
is a
very
wretched
confcience
>
the Lord deliver
us.
from it.
Fourthly,a
feared confcience;
that
is, filch a
confcience
as-
fpeaketh
not
a
jot
;feared
With
a
hot
iron,as
the
Apoftles phrafe
is,
a
Tim.
4,
2.
a
fenfele(fe
confcience, a paf
-
feeling
confci-
ence: when
men
can
fwallow
down
Gnnes
like
drink, oaths,
.
contempt
of
God,
his
word
and worllaip, mockage
of
Gods
fervants, hateing
to
be
reformed
;
fuch as Gnne
without
any
remorfe. This kind
of
confcience
is
in
foure
forts
of
men
:
i..
In diffolute
and
profligate perlons; who
like
common
firm.
pets
have
their
fouls lie
open
to
every
fine
that
cometh:
by,_
a-.
In,
Matth.
i
x.
28.
3. A
be-
numbed
conic ience
Rom.
t.pa
4.
Afear-
ed
confe:
CncC.