f I 94 The Conflienceof Chttritie. Cap.14. ·.. .. ,'- C H A P. X I I I I. ·tJf the !aft Good CDnfcic.nce, th.e Cf1tfd– ence of c~~rit.i~• ef rhe .yHus are ' we ~ome to fpeak of the Iafi of c.onfcie~ce · . thof( ten par~icular goodConfciences et (hotmy. which wepropounded at tirft ' that is, the . · Confcience of Charity. which I have refer– .ved this ·la[f plac~ £or; not beca~,tfe it is o f. .'the laff or l~afl. wqrth, but qecaufe the worlcl , hath put it in ~hf! la{f plact, iffo be yet it hath • left i.t any place at --all. 1 his .is that which the Apoflle fpea~5 Qf, 1 Tim. 1. 5· As the end ,and ptrfeliio1JoftheLaw, andGoj}el too, Cbarii.J· out ef apureheart, and of agoodCo11foimce, and jlti~b unflignetL Whereever you fee truth of Charity, quefiionnot there the truthof Cen-· jcience: The more of C,harity, the more of ·c;rmf,Cienre. .And the now totall want almoft of this in the world, argues the generall want of good· Confcience, in this Iron Age · of the world. Thefe are the daies foretold by Mat. 24 • 12 our Saviour, wherein all iniquitydotbabound, · .. and vice increafe·, becaufe Confcience.doth decreafe, and Charity wa-x cold. The world w~s I).CVer more full of knowledg,nor emptie of Charitie, J Cor.8. 1. All have that ~no~kd,( whichpHjfi up,.few that charity which lhould ' huild up; and while Confcience inmofrmen · · calls
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