51 S Rra.I I, Gaffe,which is in it felfe cleare, when it !hall be co. vered with duff, it themes nothing, it prefents not Simile. things clearely, for it is defiled, fo the Confcience of man fhould be cleare as a bright Looking- glaffe, that fhould prefent every thing that is amiffe in a mans heart or life, but it is defiled, and you can fee nothing by it. senfiblenefre The iècond Venue in this Ad of Confcience,is, as to fee finnes clearely, fo to fecle them,to be fenfable of them : like a fine flea) which is fenfible of the leaft prick,or like the eye that is fenfible of the leaft mote. Now in this it fades more than in the other; there is a brawnineffe growne over the Confcience, and in Come it hath loft all fenfe, and therein you may fee the Corruption of it. If you looke to the Glaffe,and there finde (wearing to be a finne, you are not l'enfi_ ble of it, you feele it nor. 3.Aftiveneíie. But there is a third Verme wherein it failes more than in thefe two. It fhould flirre us up, and give us no ref!, till it had confirained us to do the good thing Godcommands, and reftrained us from the Evill He 0 forbids, it fhould awaken us, but it being dull and fleepie, flirres up fou:etime6 good purpofes, there- by awaking us, but it lets us-fall a fleepe againe; wee can reft in finne, we can fn, and our minds be quiet in it, and can put off our turning to God. This is a great corruption of the Confcience which fhould amaze us: this is the finfulnefle of it, which Mould perfwade us that our natures are full of all unrighte- oufue ffe and ungndline ffe. 4. As it is an Laft of all, the third Office or Ad of the Con - ti ter.rer,or 6x t fcicnce, is, to accuf right, and excuf , and in this twee (hall; That the Nature of man is full of
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