to d r v w fi e 5 AsI .Ni T S. I 93 Firft, in their owne Conliiences , if wee will not be awa- 1. kened to bee as weháve a Name to be, the Lord will malt; our owne Confcieneea to calk us Reprobates as wee are, and then what will our Naine doe us good when our owne Consciences mall tell us wee are naught , and condemise us in our boiòmes ? What (hall wee be the better for our neigh- bours judging well of us ? Our Neighbours may bee thinke wee Pray well ; what a podre thing is this, when Confcience foall fay no ? Our neighbours may hope wee (land upon good ground, when Confcience (hall fay no : Men call us gedly, and Confcience !hall fay nay but yce are not.- What A _Thorne was it re the Jewes, when they were convic7ed dy their owne C.nfctenees? Job. 8.9. It is not the Name of joy and holinefle. that will give their Confciences true peace; no, no, Conicience know es another name is fit for us. Unbeliefe,and ungodlinellc, and Hardneflè of heart. Secondly, againe Hee will doe it in the judgement of o- 1. chers; if wee refl in a Narrìe, the Lord. will detect} us at 1aí1 before others ; and then what a fhame will this be ? As Da- aid laid of Does, the Lord would difcover him ; He would make all the People round about fay of him, Loe tbie ie the Man, that Cooke not GOD for b% ffrenntb, Pfál. 52.7. So hee will doe with us. Lo, this is the Man, that bad fach a Name to live. Le, this is the Man ; Now we fee.here's a wretch ,,pow we fee how hee deceived his owne Soule; bee never truly fought G O D in all his life ; bee was not the Man that we Cooke him for ; hee built upon the Sand, he did not lay a good foundation, and therefore now hee is tumbled down, and what is become of his Name ? Now hee fhewes himfelfe in his colours, now wee fee he is an Enemy of G o D, bee can Cade with the Times,he can embrace this prefent world, he bath no Eternall life abiding n Nay, the Lord vi ill not onely doe thus with us, if we re(1 in a Name,_ but allò hee will powre out his Wrath upon us otherwife too ; yee may read how that this was the realon why the Lord drowned all the old World; not oncly the C c wicked-
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