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treatÉf
e
of
Confcience.
anger
ref}eth
upon
us
and our
confciences
feel
it, this
is
another
caufe
of
the
trouble
of
confcience.
3.
A
third
caufè
of
the
trouble
ofconfcience
is
the
fear
of
death and
of
hell
:
When
we
know
we
have offended
Gods
law,
and we
know
alto
what
our
fnnes
do
deferve,
namely
death and
judgement
and
damnation
fòr ever
;
this
doth moll
trouble and diíquiet
confcience,
when
it
fafineth
on the appre-
henfion
of
it.
The Apofile
calleth
it
a
fearfull
looking
for
of
jndgemnent,
When
confcience
looketh
for
nothing
elíc
but
for
hell
and damnation, this
muff
needs
trouble
conícience.
4.
Another
cau
fe is
privative,
want
of
fiipportance
;
when
God
doth
with-hold
from
confcience
the help
of
his
Spirit.
Ye
know
the
Spirit can
in
able confcience
to
undergo
all
its
trou-
bles
;
the
Spirit
can
prompt
it
with
mercies
and the promifes
of God,
and hold
it
up
:
but when
the
Lord bereaveth
the
confcience
of
this
help,
and doth not
at
all
fïxpport
it,
this
mull
needs
alto trouble
confcience.
5.
When God
doth
fafien
on
the
con
feienee
fuch
thoughts
as
may
affright
and
terrifie
it
;
as
thus,
God
doth
not
love
me
;
Chr:ft
will
not own me
;
1
have
finned,
I
am
a
reprobate,
pail
hope,
&c.
When
filch
thoughts
as
thefe
fallen
on
the
confcience,
it
cannot
choofè then
but
be
troubled. Thus
I
have
(hewed you
what
are
the
caufes
of
the
trouble ofconfcience.
Secondly
,
This
trouble
of
con
fcience
confifleth in
two
things
:
Firfi,
in
want
of
comfort
:
It
cannot apply to
it
felt
neither
the
promifes
of
this
life
nor
of
that
which
is
to
come.
Confcience crieth,
This
belengeth
not
to me
:
This
mercy,
this
comfort
is
not my
portion. Secondly,
In
a
terrour and
anguifh
of
mind from
thefe
three
heads :
i
.
From the
guilt offinne
;
2.
From
the apprehenfion
ofeSods
wrath
;
3.
From
fear
of
death
and
of
judgement.
This
is
the
three-
fitinged
whip wherewith
confcience
is
lafhed.
Thefe
ye
(hall
find
upon the
con (cieticeof
Adam and Eve, when
they had finned
againfi
God.
Their con-
fcience
was
whipped.
z
.
With
the
guilt
of
finne
;
they
faw
they
were
nahed,Gen-
3.7.
2.
With
the apprehenfion
of
Gods wrath
;
they
bid thsmfelves
from
the
pretence
of
God,
verf.
$.
3.
With
the