The tender Confcience.· Cap. I 2. His warning andmemento is, Shall not God .. '. fearch this out? P[a/.44·21• He pitcheth up Labamwatch-Tower, and makes ·this ln– f~ription, No manJeeth, but Godfoetb. Where~ ' as men of no confcience fay, Who feeth w, who kz!.oweth what we do in the ChamberJ of our Imagery?They write that fcntence ofAtheiiin over their fecret and clofe dd1gne, that was in the mouth of thofe mifcreants Ezek.8.I 2. & 9· 9 · 1'he Lord feeth Uf not, the Lordbath for– fak._en the Earth. · · 5. The tender Confcience keeps a man as well from the guilt of finfuO OmiJfiom of ,· good, as of finfuU Commiffiomof evil. Our Mat.I6.2:, Sa·{)iour wasas ·much difpleafed with Peters 23· carnall di§wafion from a nece.ffary duty, to go up to jerufalem, to fuffer as with Satam Mat. 4.8,9. Diabolicall perfwafion to Dttmonolatry, to commit the mofi horrid impiety imaginable, to fall down, and wor!hiphim in the roome of God: His CJ.nfwer was the fame to both, Get thee behindi me, Satan. Thou rnu£1: as well obfervewhat thoudoeft.rzot, as what thou do.. efl:. Though the world makes finall reckon.. ing of Qmijfi01u, God takes notice of what ever opportunity we had, but neglefred ; and it feems,Mat.25 .42. in theday of judge- '· ment, thefe are the fins which chiefly fhall he d1argedon the wicked, Go }e curfed into. everlafting fore, becaufe when I war hungry, thir... {fy, nak._ed, impri[oned, fick.._, you did; not minifter to me. OmifEons are damning and curf1ng £ns it fee~us. Mat. 3. 10. Tht tree tbal bringt not
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