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Yreatif

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of

C'on

f

ciencea

103

conscience,

Cain crieth

out

of

more

then

he can

bear.

Judäs

thought

to find

more

care in

hell then

in his

own heart

So

terrible

was

thè torture

of

his troubled

confcience,

that

he

mur-

dered

him

felt;

thinking

verily

that

hell

could not

be

worfe.

2.

Sec here

what

an

infinite mifery every (inner

fhall

one

V

2.

day

be

in.

Though

he

be

riot

troubled with

this

harpye

for

the'

present,

though

he be

not

yet

gaflered

with

this furious

hag

yet the

day

will

come

when

he

fhall

:

J

fáÿ

the

time

will

come

when all

ye

that

ate wicked

(hall

be

haunted

with

this

hellifli

agony

of

a

troubled

conscience

;

either

here before

ye

die,

or

w ben ye

die,

or

at

the

furtheft when

your

ibuls are de-

parted

out

of

your

bodies

:

This

is

unavoydable

to

all that

live

and continue

in

linne.

Though

for

a

while

ye

live

in

mirth

and

pleafure and

fecuritie,

and

conscience

let eth

you alone

;

though

like

Nabal

to

day

ye

fear

and make

merit

;

yet

there

is a

conscience

within you,

an

Abigail which to

morrow

will

tell

ycu

of

it,

and

then your

hearts

will

die

within

you

and

be

like

(ones,

as

cold and

as

heavie

as

a

¡torte

within

you.

As Sam-

el

met with

Sad,

liecsaufe

thou

haft

forfak.în ti-e

lord,

the Lord

alfo

bath

forpken

thee

:

So conscience

will

find

you

out. How

-

ever

for

a

while

ye flight

and re-steel-

it,

or

el

f&

perhaps

1

up-

preff: it,

yet

it

will

find

you out,

^s

Eliah

did

Ahab,

and.then

ye will

fay.

as he

did,

Nat

thou

found

me. O

mice

enemy?

yea,

1have

found thee

:

Thou

haft

fold

thy

felfto

work

wick!dneffe

in

the

rg33t

of

the

Lord

:

thou

haft

been

a

profane beaft, thou

haft

runne

againfl

heaven;

and

egainft

God

andrhriff

;

and

thy

life

hallo been

fu:'l

of

rebellions,

&c.

new

J

have

found

thee out;

The

day

will

come

when

thy

conscience

fhall

be

like

Jobs

tees

ginger.

Ye

know what

news the

meffengers

brought

Job

;

firft

news

of

one

great evil, and then

of

another greater, and

then

of

a

third

warfl

of

all

;

cattel

and

good; taken

away,

f

r-

vants dead,

fònries

and d: ughters

dead,

J

one

y

area

left

alive

,

to

tell

thee

:

So,

J

ray.

the

time

will

come

ws

el

confeience

(l-fall

thus report, Thy pleafurec

are

dead

;

thy-prep.'s

are dead

;

thy

conccorts

are

dead

;

thy

heart

is

dead

;

thy

foul

is

curfed,

and

muff

die

.

for

ever;,

and

3-one

ÿ

am

left

alive

to

tell

thee

:

B

b

And