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A
Treatife
of
Gonfcience.
Rom<
5.
i.
Rotr.g5.
r3-
Gal.
5,22-
a
ThelE5.
z3.
hopes
and
conceits
;
They
are
not
guiltie
of
fuch and
fuch
great
finnes
;
or,
They
are
not
fo
bad
a4
force
others
:
As
the
Pharifee's
confcience was
quiet
;
why
?God,'
thankthee,
I
am
not
4u
other
men
are,
no
drunkard, extortioner,
or
like
this
pazblicane.
Or
per-
haps from this
ground their
peace
arifeth
;
The Lord
u very mer.
cifull; and, The
Lord
jefus
died
for
[inners.
Or
perhaps this
is
their
plea,
They
are
good
comers
to
Church;
They
have prayers
ix
their
f
tmilies
;
They
have
been
profeffours
of
Chrifl
7e
/us
fo
many
years
:
From
hence
they dream
of
peace
upon
falle
grounds,
whenas
the
wayof
peace
they
have
not
kZnotvn.
When
confcience
(hall
be
awaked, then it
will
tell
then
how they
have
by
flattery
deceived
their
own
fouls,and
that
having
no
true right
eoufneffe
they
could
have
no
true
peace.
4. The
quiet
of
a
good
confcience
ari
feth
from
tenderneffe
and
from
life.
Therefore the
Apofl:le
joyneth
together
,
life
and
peace,
Rom, 8.6.
True
peace
of
confcience arifeth from
life:
whereas the quiet of
a
wicked confcience
arifeth
from
feared
-
neffe
and benumbedneffe and deadnefle, when men being
paft
feeling
of
lìnne are
not
troubled
at the
committing
of
it. Thus
ye
fee
the fecond thing wherein the
difference
lieth, namely
in
the
caufe.
III.
They
differ
in
the effc& Firfl; The
effedt
of
the
quiet
of
a
good
confcience
is
comfort
and rejoycing
:
Being
juftified
by
faith,
we
have
peace With God
through
our
Lord
jefus
Chrift.
What
followeth
?
By
rrhúm'We
have
accefè
by
faith,
rejoycing;
&c.
Mark;
The
peace
of
confcience
bringeth
forth
rejoycing,.
And
fo
in
other
places
peace
and
joy
are
joyned
together.
But
the
evil
confcience,
though
quiet,wanteth
this rejoycing.
If
car
nail men had no more
mirththen
what the quiet
and peace of
their
confciences
loth
help
them to,
they would
not
be fo
met-
ric as.moft
of
them
be.
Secondly,
Another
effeel
of
true
peace
ofconfcience
is,
It
fan6}ifieth
the
foul,
it purgeth
the
heart,
purifieth
the
life,
and
reformeth the
whole man.
It
is
the
in-
ftrument
whereby
God
fandifieth
his
people more
and
more
:
The
God
of
peace
fanElifie
you
Wholly.
Obferve the
title
which
the
ApofIle
there
giveth
unto
God
when
he
fantiifieth
his
peo-
ple,