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I
.B
treata¡e
of
Confcience,
theconfciences
of
Gods
people are
very much
troubled when
the
Lord
is
thus angry with them.
2.
The
fécond
degree
of.trouble
of
confcience
is
inch
as
is
in
the wicked,
and
yet
not altogether
w
ithout
hope.
The
con-
fcience
is
troubled,
but yet
fo
as it conceiveth
hope
God is
merciful'
;
and, Chri
f
died
for
poore
fnners,
&c.
Thus
many
a wicked man
is
troubled and
affrighted
in
cónfciei
ce,
nor
for
finne,
but
for the
wrath
of
God
againít
it
;
yet
he
conceiveth
for
the
prefent
that the
finne
is
pardonable and
may
be
for-
given
:
Ghrift
may
forgive
;
God
may
pardon.
It
is
indeed
but
a
poore
ground
of
hope and comfort upon
pofli'bilities
:
but
yet this
lightneth the trouble
in the
mean time, and
it
may
be
within
a
while filaketh
it
quite
off
:
Like
the
wicked Jews,
Ifa.57.I
o. who
were worried and
wearied
molt
grievoufly
yet
they
Paid
not,
There
is
no
hope.
There may
be
much
horrour
and difquiet
in there
conlciences for
a
time
:
but
there
is
a
higher degree
yet,
a
worfe
troubled
confcience then
this.
The
third
degree
ofa
troubled
confcience
iq,
when
it
is
for
the pi-dint altogether
hopeleflc
;
fuch a con
fcience as
is
fvval-
lowed
up
in
defpair
:
when
men
thinking
of
their manifold
Cannes,
of
the direful' wrath
of
God,of
the
dreadfull torments
of
hell
for ever,
their
confciences
make them
defpair
of
all
hope
or pofilbilitie
of
avoiding
this
;
bringing
fuch
thoughts
as
these,
What
a deal oftime have
f
fpent in
finne,
wherein
f
might
have
:made my
peace
with
God,
and
have prevented
all this?
What
a great
and
omnipotent God
have
f
offended
?
What
an
infinite
Judge
have
J
provoked,
who
is
able
to
revenge
hirnfelf
on
woe,
and
who
will
be my
foe to
eternity
?
Conscience
alit
bringing
in
thoughts
of
the torments and unfufferable pains
to
be endured
in
hell, and
fuch
fivallow
up in defpair
without
all
hope
for
the prefent
or
the future. Like
the\vicked
man
which
Eliphaz
De(peratào
f
eaketh
of,
tie
believeth
not
that
he
all
return
out
of
dark_
efi
ma.
npeffe
Job
i
z
2. So there have no h
of
efcapiná
e
peck
to
da
aim..
5
p
p
Aug.
perifh
as
Spira
;
O, faith
he,
In
envy
Cain
and
Judas
t
would
J
were
in
their
cafes
:
They
are
damned
;
but
3
fhall
be worfe
for
evermore.
Now
though
to
there
all
hopes
be
gone
for
the
I
3
prefent,