Fenner - Houston-Packer Collection BX5037 .F46 1651

to Avtvfie SAINT S. ! 269 hood d.utie ; this we fee in Bolan", he went againe all out- ward lèlte- retpeOs, and followed Confcience ; for a hoafe frill of .) slaver and Gold, he would Mt goe e4eyond the word of the Lord to doe eJJ or more, Num.z a,r S. Se Judas went againfl his credit, and his profit, and all ; ye know, when his eonfcience told him the money was unjufily taken, he went and threw it downe : fo did Mich.sb, the man was an Idolater, and had Bohlen t too Pecces of Silver from his Ma- Peer, yet when he heard his mother curie, he retlored all againe. O thought he, what fitall J heare my rrurher curie, his Con- kience tore up againfl that and made him make reflitution ; why doe carnal! men Pray in fecret, no quettion but it is con - fcicnce that makes them ; may be when they are tempted to a finne in [tact, they will not doe it, and it is the Conscience that with -holds them ; in this fenfe they doe good duties out ofcontcieace ; now i this Confcience alive ? No, it does not fellow, yee fee this may be in naturall amen and women. Seventhly, Confcience fomewhat awakened, may make- one looke at God fo farce as it prevaiies ; you may fee this in Labatt. The man was a wicked roan ; yet he lookt at God in not hurting of Jacob ; though it were in the choyfc of his hand, pet he would not hurt Jacob ; and he lookt at God in the thing, O layes his conftience, the Gad ofyear Fa- tberfpake to weyefernight, Gen.3 t,29. He abflained from hurr.r.a of jacei, and he lookt at God in the abtlaining from it. Becaufe God had forbidden him, therefore he will not hurt him ; fo it was with KingCsrste, he was a naturall man oo ; yet when he tooke ord:r for the building of the Temple - at lerufalem his conscience made him look at God in the thing. O layes he, the Lord God of Neavcn and earth bath eha.- ed me to Wet himaboufc, Ezia.r,t. So whey Jeht. dctlroyed Ahab; ho%ité, and Baal! Prielis, hehimlelle .fayes how he lookt at God in the thing ; conic fee how zealous I 1 i for the Lord of Hoafis ; fo when the PhiliPines lint home the Krke ofthc r ord they would lent it home tioourahly.' with a very rich prelcnt, and the Text layer, how they lookt j i M m t at

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