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r
reatie
of
Conjcience.
more condemne for
ínne,
how many
or
how
great
foever
the
Gnnes
were
which have been
committed. Thefe are the three
things required
to
a
true quiet
confcience.
Furthermore
a
quiet
confcience
implieth
two
things
:
r.
A
calmneffe
of
fpirit
:
2.
A chearfull,
merry
and
comfort-
able
heart.
Thefe
two
I mean
when
I
fpeake
of
a
quiet con-
fcience
r.
A
calmnete
of
fpirit,
or
a
quietnefl'e
of
minde,
not trou-
bled
with the burden
of
fin
nor the
wrath
of
God,
nor terrified
with
the
judgments
due
unto
finite.
This quietneffe and
calm
-
neffe
of
fpirit
is
promifed
to
all
them
that
truly hearken
unto
Chrift
and
obey him;
who fo
harkeneth
to
me
fhall
be
quiet
from
fear
of
evil.
z. A
chearfull, merry and
joyful!
heart. When our
confci-
ence
giveth
a
comfortable teflimony
of
us,
it
cannot
but make
our
hearts joyfull. This
id
our rejoycing, the
teilimony
of
our
confcience,
faith
Paul:
The comfortable
tefaimony which
his
confcience gave
of
hint
made
him
to
rejoyce. A
wicked man
cannot truly
rejoyce
:
no, though
he be
merry
and jovial! and
laugh, yet
his
carnal! eRate
is
a
fnare,
he
can
have
no
true joy;
but
the righteous
Jing
and
rejoyce,
Prov.
29.
tS.
No
mirth
like
the
mirth
of
a
good
confcience.
All
other
joy
is
but outfide,
painted,
feeming joy
:
That's
only
true joy
that
is
rooted
in
the comfortable teffimony
of
an
upright good
confcience,which
telleth
a
man
hi;
peace
is
made with
God,
and
that
whether
he
be
in fikneffe
or
in
health
God
loveth hint,
Whether
he
live
or
die
he
ù
the
Lords. Thus yee
fee
what
a
quiet
confcience
is.
How a
quiet
confcience in
the
godly
differeth
from
the
quiet
confcience
that
is
in
the
wiced.
THe
ftcond
thing propounded
to
be
conudered about
a
quiet
Conícience, is,
How it
differeth
from
that
quiet con-
fcience
which
is
in
the
wicked.
i
.
I
confeffe
that
the
wicked
feem
to
have
a
very
quiet
confcience
:
Many
thoufands
of
car-
nall
people
feem
to
live
and
die
in
quiet. Look
into
ale-houfes,
K
lewd
65
P
ro.
I
.;;
.
z
Cor.
I.
I
z.