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8o
;
A
rreatife
of
Gonfczence.
1
Cor.
16.
Io.
Pral.
119.
103.
vine
calleth
it
Abraham)
bofome
to
the
foule:
Ye
know
what
a
blefling
it
was
unto
Lazarus
to
be
taken from
his
Ibres
into
Abrahams bofome
:
The
peace
of
a
good
confcience
is
like
this
boforne
of
Abraham
:
who would nor gladly
lie in it
?
Such
a
man who
bath
it
can
never look upon
another
mans
comfort,
but
a
good
conscience will
fay ,
Tea,
and
I
have
my
comfort
too.
When
Paul was
commending
of
Timothie,
fee
how
his
own
confcience fpake
of
himfelf at the
fame time
:
He
worketh the
Workof
the
Lord,
as
I alfo
doe
Mark
;
his
confcience would be
putting
in
comfort for
himfelf
:
Doth Timothy workthe
Lordi
Work,,?
yea
and
fo
do
I
too,
faith
his
confcience
:
It
is
Muiculus
his
obfervation
upon the place.
Secondly,
A
quiet
confcience
maketh
a
man
to taft
the
fweet-
neffe
of
things heavenly and fpirituall
:
It
maketh the
word
to
be
to
him,
as
to
David,
Sweeter then
bony,
yea then the
hony-
combe
:
I
have
not
departed
from
thy
judgements,
O
Lord,
faith
he
(chus
faith
his
confcience:)now what followeth
next
?
How
tweet
are
thy words
unto
my taFb
i
yea, fweeter
then
bony
unto
my
mouth. A
good
confcience
maketh
a
man
tait
fweetneffe
in
prayer,
when
his
confcience
telleth
him he
prayeth aright
:
It
maketh
him
tait
fweetneffe
in
a
Sabbath,
when
his
confcience
telleth
him he
fanfi6eth
it aright
:
Ib
alto
in
the Sacrament,
when
his
confcience can
witneffe
he
receiveth
aright.
W
hat
is
the reafon
fo
few
of
you
taft
fweetneffe
in
thefe things
?
The
reafon
is
this
;
Becaufe
ye have
not the
peace
of
a
good
confci-
ence
:
It
would
find
fweetneffe
in
every
good dude,
in
every
good word
and
work.
Thirdly,
A
good
quiet confcience
maketh
a
man
taft
fweet-
neffe in
all
outward things,
in
meat,
in
drink
,
in
fleep,
in
the
company
of
friends
:
it
putteth
a
Better
upon
a
very
morf
1,
Prov.
i
7.
I.
Brown bread and
a
good
confcience,
there
is
a
Better
upon it
then
upon
all
the coitly fare
of
the wealthie
without it.
Bernard calleth
a
good
confcience
á foft
pillow
:
A-
nother
calleth it
a
deare
bofome
friend
:
Solomon calleth
it
aco
-.
tinual/
feat.
It
maketh
a
man
tait
fweetneffe
in
every
outward
thing.
The healthy
man
onely
can
take pleafure in
recreations,
walks,