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76
i
A
Treatifi
o
f
Con
f
cie,nce.
fearfulnes
which
is
in
many
:
who
dale not
be in
the dark dare
not
go
through
a
Churchyard
in
the night, some
wi!1
quake
at
Job
.
t,2
c
the
very fhaking
of
a
leaf,
as
the
wicked
in ?ob:
nvhích
is
nothing
but
a
guilty confcience.I
grant
this
fearfulnes
is
natural
to
fome;
yet I
fay
the true
peace
of
confcience
will
cure
it.
I
do
not
fay
this
is
a
reciprocal!
figne
of
true
peace
of
confcience
:
for many
wicked men
may
be
bold enough
:
but
I fay
true peace
ofcon.
fcience
will
cure this
immoderate
fearfulneffe
in
the godly.
But
here
two
queflions
are
to
be asked,
I.
Whether
every
true
child
of
God
that
hash
true
peace
of
confcience can
think
of
death
with comfort
and be defirous
to
die.
Anfw.
K.
Peace
of
confcience
doth not
take
away
natural
fear.
It
is
the nature
of
every living
creature
to
be
very fearful!
of
death.
The Philofopher
calleth
death
goßsewv
gpo'era-rev,
the
fearfuleft
thing
of
al
fearfull
things.
Bildad calleth
it
the
king
of
terrours.
Nature
loveth
its
own prefervation
;
and
therefore
feare,h the
def'cruiion
of
it. Peace
of
confcience
doth
not
Job.j8.i4.
take
away
all
this feare.
2.
Belides, peace
of
confcience
doth
not
take
away alwayes all
degrees
of
flavifh
fear
of
death.
The
reafon
is,
becaufe
peace
of
confcience
may
be
weak,mixed
with
much
troubles
of
confcience.For
as
faith
may
be
very imperfeá
,
fo
peace
of
confcience may be in
Tome
very imperfec`I:
Good
old Hilarion
was very fearfull
to
die
:
He cryed
out to
his
foul
when
he lay
on
his
death
bed.
O
my
foul,
haft
thou
fer-
ved Chrift
there
fourefcere years,
and
art
thou
no* afraid
to
die
?
x
loh 4,18
Again,
a
mans
love
may be very
imperfe
.
Perfet
love
indeed
cafteth
out
feare;
but imperfeet
lovedoth
not
Hezekiah
had
peace
of
confcience
:
Remember
Lord; faith
he,
I
have
walked`
s
Kings
before thee
in
truth,
and
xvitha perfeet
heart.
Mark
;
He had
the
iz.°'
3.
peace
of
a
good confcience;
his
confcience
cold him he
had
a
fincere
heart,
and
that
his
wayes pleafed
God
:
yet
he was afraid
to
die
:
I
do
not
think
it'
was onely
becaufe he
had no
iffue,
though
that
might
be fome reafon
of
it.
3.
When
a
child
of
God
is
afraid
to
die,
it
is
not
fo
much
for
love
of
this
life
as
out
Pfa.39.13
of
a
desire
to
be
better
prepared.
This made David
cry
out,
sure
me,
that
I
may recover
ffrength,
before
1
go
hence
and
be
no
more