treatife of Confrtenc.e, henfion of Gods wrath. You will never be able to bear it, much leffe in the time of affliction. O it is good being in a drie boulé when a great tempeft is up : and it is fife being in a good harbour when a form beatetla hard. A good confcience isaoodat all times; but O how fweet then 1 When Jonah fell into afflietlion, the want of pe,,rce in his confcience made him look upon his afieIion as upon hell, as though he had been in the belly of hell : They who follow lying vanities, ferfak.e their own mercies, faith he. Mark ; his conscience dogged him with his fleeing from God, and forfaking his own mercies. Ye fee he was milérably diftreffed by it till the Lord did deliver him. Be charie then of confcience, and get it purged, that it may (peak peace to you in trouble. 4 Oaneflions. NOw J have declared unto you, What a troubled confci- ence, is ; What is the caufe of it, and wherein it con - fiUeth ; How many degrees there be of it ; How the troubled confcience of the godly differeth from the troubled confcience of the wicked; the miferie of a troubled confcience; and, What a deal of mifchief it doth one, efpecially in of iCtion : now J fhould leave this point, but that there be fundriequefli- ens to be anfwered about it. I. Suppofe a man be rid of this trouble, and have peace of confcience, how (hall he maintain it, and keep out troubles from it ? II. Whether and how the peace of our confcience dependeth upon our care and obedience ? III. What manner of obedience it is that peace of confci- ence Both depend on ? IV. If a man have no peace, but onely a burdened con- fcience, what mutt fuch a man do to be freed from it and to attain true peace ? I. Queftion ; How a man pray kgep peace of Con- festnce. b3 1
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