The tender Confcience. Cap. I 2. tinned a very poor man in his 'efiate, not;.; .... __ withfranding the great Imploymcnts and O ·ffices he had: His whole Eftate was(fay the Hiftorians ) a parcell of Land of ftven pcrer, for his wife and children to live upoh. 1 j Note. The tender confcience cloth not • onelybew.Jre of finfull ailion1, but cloth alfo 'bewaile, and take [ad notice of his fin full af~ jef1ion1, and the depraved difpofitions of his nature : He mourns under the fin that dwelJ within him, the Law in his members warring ltom.?.,.o. againft the Law ofbiJ rr~;inde, and the Eoc!J of -23,24. Death,which he carrieth continually about him; thefe are his greatefi burden : Whereas the hypocrite, or the man of .a loofer and lar~ ger confdence, could be content that fin thould remain in him, fo it would not reign, and too much rage, to put him to fhame, or into much diforder. He feeks more to have his fin covered then cured, defires rather his fins fhould be curbed then conqu~red: If he could keep his lufis and paffions in fome aw; . and fome good order and decorNm, he would defire no more ; thefeCantJaniiu fhould live .by him ; he would not expell , or deftroy them, if they will but become Tributaries • If they bring him in any Contribution-mo.; ney, and pay him Tribute, and yeeld him any benefi t ; if they will but hew him wood; anddraw himwater, he will · be content to fpare them. , Now thefe fimple Gibeonite.r will fu.bmit to any terms ~ fo they may but live. .Th~
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