of inf îenee. 137 handofGod,=begi:incs tohand vp onhis.legges,and fhewes his fierceeyes, andoffers tarendeout enen the verythroat ofthc foule,. And heathenPo- ,ets ktoowingÈhis. right well, haue comparedeuill confcience toFuries put- fuing, men with firebrands. Thefearedco'fctenceisthatwhich Bothnotaccufefor a,v thine; nonot Scared c®n for great fumes, It iscomparedby Pau1,s.Tim.4.2. to thepart ofa mans bo_ fciente. die which is not onely bereft of¡enfe,life,and motion by thegangrene, but all() isburnt with afearing iron : and therefore mutt needes be vcterlypail rill feeling. This kind ó confcienceis not in all men, but in fuch perfons as arebe- come obflinate heretikes and notoriousmalefaéIourr. And it is not in them by nature , butbyan increafe oft he corruption ofnature; and that bycer- taine fteppes and degrees. Fornaturally curry man bath in him blindnes of minde,andobtlinacieor frowardnesofheart ; yet 1,as with the blindnes and ignorance ofminde, are ioyned töme remnants ofthe light ofnature, fhewingvswhat:is god andeuil.Now the heart ofmanbeingexceeding- lyobflinate and peruerfe , carrieth him to commit Pinnes cuen againff the light of nature and common confcience: by praci:ife of fuch fnnes the light ofnature is extinguifhed:and thencommeth thereprobatemrnde,which iudeth cuill good,and-good cull!: a tier this follows the fearedcanfcience,in which there is no feeling orr,omorfe:and after this comes anexceedznggree4 dines to all tnann' offinne.Ehh.4. t S.i'iòrn.t,.2S. Hereit may bede; naunded, hownulls contci encesihallaccufe them in theday.of udgemenr,ifthcy be thus benummed and feared in this life. Alf. Jr is faid, Rev. to,t 2, that at the tail judgement all thall bebrought before Ghriíi;and that thebooker then flail be opened : among thefe bookes, no doubt, roneienee is ones 'Wherefore though a dead confcience in this life be as a doled orfealed.booke (becaufeit doth eitherlittle or nothing ac- cufc,)yetafter this life,it (hall be as a booke laid open: bccaufe God !hall in- lighten it,and fo flit re it vp byhis mightie power, that it fhallbe able to re- male anddileouer ail the fumes that a man ever committed. Stitt-live con( iewe, is that which doth fenfiblyeither accure or excufe. Stirring co. And <r fcicncs, a ut huh fouredifferences. rü: Thefrawhich accufeth a man fordoing cull!. This :nun needesbeane- uilt confcience: Becaufe to accufe is not a propertie that belongs to it by creation, but a defect that followeth after the fall. And ifthe confcience which truly accutéth a man for his ficnes, wereagood confcience, then the wornman that is,might bane agood confcience; which can not be. When the accufatioti ofthe confcicnce is more forcible andviolent, it is called a wounded or troubled corficience : which thoughof it felfe it benot good noranygrace ofGods yet by the goodnesofGod it ferueth often to bean occafionor preparation co grace ; as anet dle,thatdrawes the threed foam intothecloth,is oe=amwhereby thecloathisfewed togither. The fecond, is that which accufeth for doing ,veil. Andit is tobe found 1 in
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