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A
Treatife
o
f
Gonfcience.
2.
In obainate
tanners,
Inch as,
like .Ahab,
have
fold
themfclves
to worke
rricke44neffe
in
the
fight of
the
Lord.
3.
In
fcoffcrs
and
jeerers
;
who
fpeake
evil
of
them
who
renne
not in the
fame
ex-.'
ceffe
ofriot with themfeives,
and nickname
the godly.
4.
In
Apoftates and
back
-
hiders
;
who
fpeake
lies
'through
hypocrifie,'
and
have
fallen
from the profefiîon
of
the
truth
:
Ml
thefe men
have
a
confcience feared
with
a
red-hot iron.
This
is
a
great
judgment
of
God
greater then
this
there cndot
be
No
outward
judgment
that
can
fall
upon
us is
like
unto
it
:
not
thb plague,
nor
Chame,
nor
beggery,
no
nor
any curie
befdes
hell
it felfe
is
equal
to
it.
By
this
the only
meanshder
God
of
repentance
is
taken away.
Such
may
come
to
repent
;
but it
is
a
thoufand
to
one
if
ever they do.
It
is
like
a
graveflone
lying upon
their
confLiences, which
keepeth them under until the
day
of
judg-
ment
:
at
which
time
God
will awaken
their
confciences,
and
then they
will
be
more
furious
in
tormenting
then
the
very
de-
vils
themfelves.
Ye
that
are
not yet
fallen
upon
this
wretched
confcience,
I
befeech
you
take
heed
that
ye
never
do.
But
ye will
ask me,
How
may
We
avoid
it
?
Avoid it
?
alas,
ye
may avoid
it
if
ye
be
carefull
:
for
confcience
never
feareth
it
felfe
:
If
ever
it
be
feared,
it
is
ye
your
felves
that
do
fear
it. Indeed the
mind
of
man may blind its
own felf
;
and the
heart
of
man may
corrupt
its
own
felf
;
and the
affections
of
man may defile
their
own
felves,:
but
confcience
never
corrupteth
its felf, never
feareth
it
felf.
But
you
will
fay,
What
muff
I
do
to
avoid
this
fearing
of
confcience
Firfi,
liften
to
confcience
well,
that what
ever it
faith
to
thee from
God thou
milt
do
it.
This was
the
courfe
of
the
Pfalmiil
;
I
will
harken what the
Lord
God
Will
fay
in me
(fo
force
tranflate
it.)
Hear
then and
liften
what the Lord
God
will
fay
in
thee, what
thy
confcience
illightened
faith in
thee,
and
do
it.
Secondly, when
ever this confcience
is
quick
follow
ir.
No-
thing
more feareth confcience
then
fuffering
quicknings
to
die.
Blow the
coles
if
they do but fmoak.
As
the Apoille
faith,
uenchi