The tender Confcience•· ~ . Cap. 1 2. again[t eight hundred at ne time, andflew them. • Eiiaz~t the [on of DodoHood his ground, and ·- c·ndured the lhock of the Philiflinu Army, when all his me• had left him: The like did Shammahthethirdofthem, 2 s... 23.8,9,IO. 'l'be Philijlims were gathered tttgether itJ t~1rnflp, Jl7here was iJ piece of grounrl fi1!J of Lentilet, the , people fled ttnd lt[t him, he ftood the charge, and beat off thePhiliJfinu, and made good his ground : Theft thing! did tbflje three mighty mm. So a man of confcience confiders not · fo much thedanger that lies before h.im, as th~ dutyandneceffity that lies upan him, to appear in ft1ch a time and caufe. A ietyElias is the more jealous ( which is thegreatdt meaft1rc of tendernefs and love) of thecaufe, truth, . and worlhip of G~d, when thewhole world is hJJlting between aGod and no God, andwhea :tll his fellow Prophets were flain and but– chered, and he himfelf was left alone; yea, his lifelaid out for ; then was a fit time for. him to £hew his courageandfiddity, or jea– loufie, as he calldt, 1 Kin. 1 9· 1o. We finde. by experience the fire to · burn moft fc~rchingly in theextreamefl: frofly weasher, and the mofi gentrouJ co11{cience is thenmoftforward and fervent, when he lives in a cold and lreezingclimate, · ,And fo much ofthe.tender Confcience. ·cHAP. . I
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