226 CHRIS'es Warm thefe are dead workes, all this while I have gone on with a dead-heart, this foules the contcience ; it can never have true peace. How much more fhall the Wood of Cbri f# purge your confciexce from dead work's, to ferve the living tied, Heb.g. 14. It (hall purge the Confcience from dead workes ; dead workcs foule the cenfcience ; whether they be dead for matter ar manner ; f nne is a dead worke for matter, and good duties hearticftely done are dead vtorkes for manner; now L both foule the Confcience ; the contcience remaines under guilt ; continues without peace ; it is an ill Confcience why ? óecau1e the Conference knowes it hath the living God to ferve that will not like of fuck 'workes ; when a man payes in his rents onely lay halves, or by dribblets or with light money, the Kings receiver will not give him an ac- quitt ance ; my Brethren , Cenfcience is Gods receiver , no wonder it does not give you an acquittance, when yee pay in onely wafht duties clipt obedience ; if yee ferved God with life Confcience would give you an acquittance when yee have done a dayes worke in his harvefl, it would acknowledge the receipt of it , well done good and faith - full fervant ; it is well done in fome 'mature. This made Paul full of life every day. Herein doe 1 exercife my feufe to have alwayes a Confoience void of offence towards G O D-, and towards men, Art. 24. 16. That is , J doe not onely goe on in good duties both towards God and towards men, but this I doe alwayes, J do even exercife my Cëlfe, that I may have an acquittance from mine ovine Confcience when J have done ; that my contcience may give me a true dd charge ; well done, J have done well in force rneafure ; now as long as we are dead- hearted and hollow in Gods waves, our contcience can never give us a difcharge, no marvell, that fo few of us have Peace of Concience , when wee are fo dead- hearted as wee aro ; if we would frirre op our (elves w ferve God with all heart and life_ wee fhonld have Peace ; but till this be once , wee can never lecke to have Peace and comfort. Fourth-
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