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Prov.i
8
14
d
treatife
of
Confcience.
foul.
The
eyes
of
Gods
children are
íli11
towards
heaven
;
they think
í
}ill
they
fhould
have ionic help from
God
:
They
pray and
cry,
and though God
feemeth
to
neglea
them,
yet
they
cannot
give over
:
They
will
not
be
beaten off
from
wait-
ing
on
God
when
he
will 'peak comfort to them.
5.
That
trouble
that
is
in
the
wicked
maketh their
heart
fitllen ;
but that
in
the godly melteth
their heart
:
My
foul
is
like
melting
wax
faith
David
in
his
troubles
ofconkieñce.
His
foul
melted before
God
,
and was
even
poured
out
before
Mm,
Plal.
2
Z.
i
3.
This
is
a
kindly working.
Thus
ye
fie
the
difference.
V
fe3.
a,
Y
this
we
fee
what
a
miférable
thing
it
is.to have
fuch
a
troubled
conieience.
It
is
the greateft
mifery
rhat
can
be
:
it
is
even a
bell to men
here
upon
earth
:
it
is
like
a
diltnall ghofl to
terrific the
foul
-:
it
is
like
a
burning furnace
in
the boibme
:
it
maketh the
life
bitter. In
a
word,
the
1pir-it
ofman
is
not
able
to
be,.r
it
:
The
fpirit of
manwill
fuflesn
its
infirmities
:
but a
wounded
fpirit
who
can
bear
?
As long
as
a
mans
fpirit is
found,
it
will
bear
any thing.
Some have born
agues,
fevers,
(tones, colicks,
convullons,
rackings,
torturings
:
as
long
as a
mans
fpirit
is
found
he
is
able
to
bear
any
of
them,
allofthem
:
bat a
wounded
fpirit
who
can
bear?
Never was
there
man that was able to
bear
a
wounded
fpirit.
We
may
fee
by
many
or
Gods
children how heavy
it
is
a
David
cored
with
the
anguafh
of
it
:
a
Orange phrafe.
Hen-in was
ready
even
to
runne out
of
his
wits with
it
:
While
t
fuf
fer
thy to
./-'
roars,
faith he,
y
am
dif
ra5led,Pfal.88.15. Ethan
cornplainetk
that
it
was like
a
burning
fever
:
How
long,
O
Lord wilt thou
hide thy
face
?
for
ever
?
fhall
thy
wrath
burn
like
fire
?
Plat.
89.46.
If
t
be
thus with
Gods
children
what
may
we
think
of
the wicked
?
If
we
could
fearch
into the
bofomes
of
fome
wicked
men
who
are
enemies
to God,
then
we
might
fee
and underfiand
the true
weight and
burden
of
this troubled
confcience,