Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P74 S2 1637

all unri¿hteoufne fie and ungodlineff . 5+ is inffant thereon, and that is the reafon wee remem- Se a M. 1. ber ir, but forget the things that concerne God, and our Salvation. Come we from the Memory to the Confcience. 4. The eorru, The confcience of a man is that which fhould have ti °° °r `l': Confcience. life ;It fhould be like Jobs Taft meffengers, to bring us word, that all the refl to dead : There fhould be a re- maining light of Confcience to tell us, that all the re(1 of our faculties are dead,difordered,and corrup- ted, but looke upon the Confcience, you (hall fee how fhort it is in that which belongs to it, and it is a great matter to have that out of order. Therebe butt Free As of the Confcience, and it In three Ms. is difordered in them all. The firff AO of the Confcience is to be a Remem- I. As it is a brancer, to be a faithful] Regifler, to fet all downe Remembran- cer and to prefent it to us, but it is a falfe regifler ; like the Steward in Luke, that when there were hundreds, fit dowrnc fifties:So the Con(ciencefets down things by halfes, it thinkes not what is done, it recals them not; if it were as it fhould be,it would recal our fins, and their Circumflances, in another manner than it doth: and fo it is in that regard corrupt. The fecond Ad or Office of Confcience, is, to in- a. As it is an imate to good, and to reflraine from evill, but in this one' trout to good, or a Re- you (hall finde it exceedingly corrupted. ' (drainer from In this AcI there be three Venues which fhould eviji. Wherein three be in the Confcience. Venues are re- The fir(( is clearenefe, the Confcience fhould be quired. fo cleare, as to fee all things that are amiffe, but in ' Clearenefíe. this it Liles excecdinglv,Tet.I . It is faid,Their minae Tit.:. s S. and comience. are doled, marke that; looke as in a E 2 Glaffe,

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