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,i
treats,
fe
of
Confcieltce.
i
89.
preiènt,
yet
force
of
there
troubled
confciences
feramble up
again with vain
hopes, and fome
do not.
Cain
got up again,
it
fhould
Teem
:
but.
Judas
did
not..
Thofe
that
never
get up
Dsfperare
again,
eitherfiríf,
they live in
intolerable
honour
and vexation
ellininfer-
of
ípirit,
as
if
they
had
a
devil
in them
to put them to
anginal,
nui
dee-
and
often
( being
weary
of
their
lives
)
do
make away them-
feendeve,
íélves, and fo leap
quick into hell
:
or
ellè fecond,
they
runne
ifid'
defperately
into all
abominable
court-es
:
Their
confciences
telling them
there
is
nothing to
be
expe
ted
but
damnation,
they
give
themfelves defperately
to
commit
finne
with
greedi-
nefie,
laying
with
them
in
f
eremie,
There
is
no hope
;
therefore
we
will
wallafterour
own
devifes,
Jer.18.t2. Orel;
&3..they
grow
fenfeleffe
of
it. They
fee
they
are
wrong, but
they are
not
lènCible
of
it.
It
may
be
they
pray
and reade and heare ;
but
their confciences fecretly whisper,
All
is to
nopurpof
.
Con-
EKe
.
4.
lciencc
eateth
and
eateth l,ke
a
Worm,
-and they, pine
away
in
Z3
their
iniquities;
as
the
Prophet
apeaketh,
A
kind
of
forrow they
have,' but
they
cannot;
mourn
;
a
kind
of
fad
dolour, but they
cannot
Weep
:
re
all
not mane
nor
weep,
but
pine away
in
your
finne:,
faith
the text..
I
confetfe
there be more prefumers
in
the
world;
who
promilè themfelves
that all
(hall
be
well
with
them
:
but
yet there be defpairers
too,
and very
many, whole
confciences
are
troubled with fieret
defpair ;
though
it
may
be
not apparently
to
others.
Now
the.
eaufes
of
there defpairing confeiences arc there.
t
.
The greatne'fe
of
finne
;
when the
h
.art.thinketh
fecretly
thus. Certainly the
Lord cannot
find
in his
heart
to
forgive
;ne.
As it
was with Cain
:
When
he had
lived
in
earthly
minded-
ne fie,
and then
in
formality,
and
then in difcontent and
in
hatred, and
then
in
hardneffe
of
heart, the Lord rebuked him,
and yet
his
heart
was
fo
hard
that
f
}ill he
went
on
in
evil
;
then
he
murdered
his
brother
;
and
laflly
he defpaireth
`
My
finnes
Gen,4
T3
are
greater,
faith
his confeiencc,
then
can
be
forgiven.
He
thought
God
could
not find
in his
heart
to
forgive
him. So
vuhen
men
finne
and
finne,
and the Lord doth rebuke them,
and yet they
do
finne,
and their
confciences
do
check
them, and
Aa3
'yet