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any
point
in
Gods word
with
joy
and
delight.
A wicked
heart
can
hear
pointsofinercy
and
comfort
with joy
:
fo
long
his
peace lafteth
:
Every
man
that
calleth
upon
the
name
of
fthe
Lord
fhall
be
faved
;
I
f
we confe
f
fe
our
finnes,
God
is
jug
to
forgive
to
our
finnes
;
l
f
any
man finne,
We
have
an
Advocate with the
Father,
Jefua
ChriJl the
righteous
;
Whover
'hall
confere
that
Jeftu
is
the Sonne
of god,
God
de\A'elleeh
in
him and
he
in God
:
Snch
points
as
thefe
a
wicked
heart
can
read with delight
(though if
they were truly
opened
and
expounded
they
would
yield
him
cold
comfort,
yet
he can
hear them with delight
in
the lump
:)
But if
a
fearching
point
or
fame
terrible point
cometh,
he
is
afraid
to
hear
that.
Ahab
had
a
quiet
confcience
but only when
Mice
iiah did preach
:
Felix
had
a
quiet
con-
fcience
no
doubt
;
yet
he
trembled
to
hear
Paul
preach
of
death
and
of
judgment,
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24. 25.
One
would
have
thought
that
Paul
(
a
prifoner)
fhould rather
have been
afraid
:
but
Paul
had
true
peace
of
confcience, and
therefore
he could
think
and
fpeak
of
death with
great comfort,
and
ofjudgment
with joy
;
So
could
not
Felix,
Beloved,
this
is
a
ffrong
flgne
of
a
falle
peace, when force
points
of
Gods word
lay
us
flat and
bereave'
us
of
our hold. Ye
(hall
have
many
fay,
O
they
have fuch
peace,
and
they
have fuch
a good
confcience,
.cs
quiet
as
can
be,
and
as
heart
-whole as
can
be
:
By
and
by
a
found fearching
point
corn-
eth
and ranfacketh
them
to
the
quick, and
they are gone.
I
confefre
they go
and
get
Tome
untempered
morter
or other,
and
dawb
up
their
consciences
again
;
but
they
are gone
for
the time. This
is a
fl:rong
ligne
of
a
rotten
peace. Bat
a
child
of
God
can
hear
any
point,
hear
of
death,
ofjudgment,
of
any
thing contained
in
the
word,
with delight
and
comfort. It
is
true,
he may
be
amazed
thereat
:
but
he
is
glad
at heart
that
he
heareth
it, and
will make
ufe
of
it,
be
it mercy
or
judgment.
Sweet
or bitter points
all
are welcome
to
him
:
even
the bit-
terefi points
are fweet
to
him,
becaule
God
and
he
are
at
peace;
and
therefore
he
knoweth there
is
no news
from
God
but
it
is
good.
IV.
If
our peace
of
confcience
be
good,it
will
heal
that
bale
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