4 treatife of Confidence. Ipli in the children of God and in the wicked loth much differ in thisfirfl" relpc. a. The trouble of confcience in the wicked arifeth onely from the apprehen(ion of Gods wrath and fear of judgement for finne, not for the finne it feltand from the love ofholineffe : But that in Gods children arifèth chiefly for finne, and the want of ti e apprehenfion of Gods love unto them : How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever ? how long wilt thou hide thy face from. me ? Pfàl. 13. r . Mark whence the trouble of' the Pfàlmift came : This was his trouble, that God did hide his face. 3 Trouble of confcience in the wicked never maketh them part with (inne, never breedeth a hatred of' finne in them ; but that in Gods children doth. True it is that a wicked mans troubled confcience may make him vomit up his (inne, like a dog that vomited) up his troublelome meat : but he Both not vomit up his flomach to that meat ; for when the trouble is over he returneth to his vomit again. So a carnali man retur- neth to his deadneffe of heart again, and to his fecuritie again, when the trouble is over. Pharaoh, while(} his confcience was troubled at the fenfe of Gods judgements, O then faith he, J have finned: I pray, Aloft:, let me have your prayers ; and J will let you go. If the children of Ifiael could have packed up and departed while this trouble had lafled,they might have been gone, But when he faw there was refpite, he hardned his heart again. Mark ; His trouble of confcience did not make Exod.8.:5 him part with his finne : But that in Gods children doth. 4, That in the wicked driveth them from God : They have little heart to come unto him : They fee nothing but wrath; and they rather go about to feekafe Mother things then to leek his favour : as Saul fought eafè in mufick, and Cain in building calcles and cities, and Judas in a defperate coude. Their trouble fetcheth them not to God. But the trouble in Gods children worketh otherwife : In the the midft of trou- ble of confcience they tell upon God as Heman crieth, O Lord God of my falvation, in the midit of the troubles of his p fai,88a. foul.
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