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treati,
fe
of
f
C'onfcienee,
)
the
fear
offome
vengeance which
they
bean
to
look
for
;
/was
afraid,
faith
Adam,
verfe
I
o.
This
three- frringed
wLip
ye
may
fee
alto was upon
the confcience
of
Cain
after he had
Hain
his
brother
:
His
confience
was
whipt.
a
.With
the
guilt ofGnne;
.My
f
nne
ù
greater
then
can
be
forgiven
:
2.
With
the
appre-
henfion
of
Gods wrath
;
From
thy
fact,
O
Lord,
011n
I
hid
3.
With
the
expe6tation
ofdeath
and
of
judgenietnt
;
It
fball
coon
to paffe
that
every
oxe
that
findeth
me
fhall
flay
me. Thus
j
have
fbewed
you what
a
troubled
confcience is.
The degrees
of
a troubled confcience.
II.
He
next
thing
I
promifed
to fhew
is
the degrees
of
a
troubled
confcience.
A
troubled
confcience
hath
divers
degrees
:
For
fome confciences are
more
troubled then
other
fume.
i.
The
Eft
degree
is
filch
a
degree
as
may be
in
Gods
children
:
and
this
arifeth not
fo
much from
the
apprehenfioiñ
of
Gods
wrath
as
from ti,e
guilt of
Gnne
:
Their confciences
grieve
and
are
troubled to think
that
they have finned and
offended
the
Lord
God.
Thus we
fee
David
could
not
be
at
quiet
:
Although
Nathan
had
cold
him from
Godtnar
his
finne was
forgiven
,
,
yet
his
confcience
Hill
troubled
him
:
Again'
thee
oxely
have
I
finned, and
done
this evil
in
thy
fight.
faith
he. I grant the
confciences
ofGods
children
are
troubled
at the
epprehen(on
of
Gods anger
;
bac
t
hen
it
is
his
fatherly
anger:
not
the anger
of
an
enemy.
Though
fbr
a
fit
they may
féem
to
apprehend
that too, yet
mof}iy it
is
for
that
they have
provoked
their
loving Father to anger againft them.
A
father
maybe
angry with
his
child
out
of
love
;
and
fo
the Lord may
be
with
his
dear
children. The
Lord
was
angry
with
me
too,
faith
lvlofes
,
Deut.
T.
p.
0
let
not my
Lord
he
angry,
faith
Abraham the
father
of
the
faithful.
O
God
of
bolls
how long
milt
thou
be
angry
with
thy
people
that
prayetb,
faith the
PfA-
mtfl.
Sometimes
the
Lord
ìs
angry
,.rich
the
prayers
of
his
people; but
it
is
in
love, becaufe he
would
have them pray
better,
and obey
better, and
look to
their
tîanding
better.
Now
A
a
z
the
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