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treatife
Cofeience,
8
an
unquiet
Coí
fcience.
j
Have
already handled
a quiet
Confcience.
I
come
now
to
j
fpeak
of
a
troubled and unquiet
contcience
:
Concerning
which
I
íhall
(hew you
three
things
:
I.
What
it
is
;
2.
The
degrees
of
it
;
3.
Tne
difference
of
the
trouble that may
be in
a
good
and
that may
be
in
a bad confcience.
I.
What
a
troubled
confcience
is.
Ic is
a
confcience
accutiug
for finne, and affrighting
with.
apprehenfions
of
Gods wrath,
And
here
I
would
have you
confider
two
things
:
i.
What,
are the caufes
of
it
;
2.
Wherein
in
confifteth.
Fir(
+,
The
caufes
of
it
are thefe
five.
I
.
The guilt
of
finne
:
When
a
man
hash
done
evil, and
his confcience
do:h
know
it,
then
doth
the
confcience crie guiltie
:
when be knoweth
it,
faith the
text,
then he
/hall
be
guilty.
This
is
it
which
woundeth
and
pierceth confcience
;
this
is
crre
fad voyce of
confcience.
Like
Judas
;
I
have
finned in betraying
the
innocent
blood :
Like
Cain
;
My
finne
u
greater
then
can be
forgiven.
So
the
brethren
of
Jofèph;
We
are
guilty,
fay
they,
concerning our
brother.
It
is
like
the head
of
an
arrow
flicking
in
the ile(h,
or like a
dreadful'
obica
continually
prefenting
it
fell
before
our
eyes
My
finne
u
ever
before me, faith
David. When
we
have
traniáreflèed
Gods
law,
and
our
confcience can cry
guiltie,
when
the
guilt
of
finne
lieth
upon
confcience,
this
is
one caufe
of
the
trouble
of
it.
2.
Another
caufe
is
the
apprehenfion
of
Gods
wrath
for
finne
:
When knowing that we
have finned and offended
God,
we apprehend
his
wrath
in
our
minds,
and
behold the
revenging
eye
of
his
ju{lice
againtl
us.
This
is
a
very grievous
thing,
iò
terrible
that
no
man
or
angel
i=
able to
abide
it
:
As
we
iee
the
Kings
a
d
Poxrtates,
the
in,ghty men
of
the
earth
call
for
the
mr
:u.itaines
to
fall
upon
them
and the hills
to
cover
them
from
the
wrath of
64,
Rev
.6.15.16. When
we
have
incurred
Gods
ditplebfure
and our
contciences
fee
it,
when
his
A a
anger
What
it
is.
Genft.
S.4
Glen
41.2.1
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