72 A Treatife of Confcience. not be but that all mutt like it, and with, O that we had it r Be- loved,let us labour to get it and the affurance of it. No blefíing under heaven is like it ; It is a heaven upon earth. Happy are they who can Phew they have it : and miferable are they who have it not. `Nice mitten pacii. Sweet and pleafant is the very name of peace, elpecially of the peace of a good confcience; If ye have it, no mifery can make you miferable ; and if you have it net, no happineffe can make you happy. It is Chrifts legacy which he bequeathed to his Church ; `Peace I leave with 1011.14.27 you, my peace Igive unto you. It is glorious and honourable: Beeft thou never fo mean in the world, thou art glorious if thou haft this peace; beef} thou never fo defpifed and difgraced a- mong men, thou haft honour enough if thou haft this peace; Rom. 2. 10. To every one that doth good, glory and honour and peace. Mark how it is accompanyed ; namely, with glory and honour; But fhame and confufion and difhonour is upon all them that have it not. IiI, examination, whether we have a quiet confcience. COncerning a quiet confcience I propounded three things : . What it is ; 2, How it diftereth from that quiet con- fcience that is in the wicked ; 3. The examination whether we have this quiet confcience yea or no. The two former we have handled already : namly, What a quiet confcience is; and, How it differeth from that quiet confcience which is in . the wicked. Let us paffe on now unto the third, namly, to an examination dour felves whether we have a true quiet confci- ence yea or no. A quiet good confcience is fuch a marvellous blefSng that it cannot poftible be but we mua like it and with, O that we had it. Let us then examine our felves and fee whether we have it or no. Many have peace and quietneffe (as huh been Chewed already) arifing from falfe grounds : they have peace of con- fcience becaufe they know not what belongeth to trouble of confcience; or if they know that a little (as fome of the wick- ed
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