43 2 ntttOU0 fait!): great fall,prays firfl to be purged with byfop,ánd then for the joy of Gods falvation, Pfal. 5 i. The Hyfop which was ufed to fprinkle the Blood under the Law, figured out the office of Faith in fprinkling Chrifis Blood on the Confcience; that's a foveraign Balm to heal thy Wounds, and able to make Confcience give thee an an fwer of Peace. I have read a notable ftory of a fick Man, who when Satan appeared and (hewed him a long fcrole of his Sins in writing, laying,, Behold thy Virtues ; replied, True, Satan, but thou haft not let down all, let down allo, The Blood of Chri(1 cleanfeth us from all Sin. Such a purifier is this, that a Man may be able, as is Paid of St. Auf in, to think of his former Evils without fear, as having no fpot of unpardoned Sin in him ; Thy Confcience be- ing made pure, walkafter it. A re râ Confcien- tia ne latuvn guidon unguem di /edendum, laid the Orator. Leave it not, left thou fall and wound thy fell afrefh. when Confcience fum- mons thee to this or that Duty, up, be doing, God calls thee to it by thine own Heart: when it tells thee offuch a fnare in thy way,avoid it, pars by it as thou wouldft by Hell. God warns thee againit it by thy felf; Confcience will meafure out Comforts or Terrors to thee, ac- cording as thou behaveft thy fell well or ill, to- wards it. If like Saul thou force thy fell, and rebel againfi light, and give (tabs to Confci- ence, what haft thou to do with Peace ? Thy Heart will reproach thee,Confcience will firike again
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