Sheffeild - Houston-Packer Collection BJ1471 .S5 1650

220 The Excel/encie ofagooJ Confcience. Cap. I 5· without any more ado !bakes it off.into the . .. - fire whence it came. · Prfmat corput , fremat · · ---~- Diabolut, trahat mundH!, ill.~ femper erit {ecura. Bernard. de Let men, world, and divels do their worft, corrfo. c1t.8. they cannot hurt Confdence. Thi& is the whole. skj.11 whid1 ·it is good ·.· fleeping in,for a torn Confcienae is the worfl trov. 1 s.i 4 . x:ent. The wounded jpirit .who can bear ? If thou fuffer CoRfcience to ·be torn, to keep · dly skinwhol~, the7'ent is made worfe; ifthou lofe thy Confdence to fave thy life, thou art aLofer, not a .Sa.v~r; and.if thou lofethy l ife. to fave thy Co.t;tfcience, thoQ ;ut the grcateft gainer by th,at.which thewdrldcallsgreateft lofs. Skj,n for J kjnl an"tl al~ that I have to f ave }Qb 2·4· my lift, fai~h th~ world in Satans Language. · · SbJn for sbJn, and lifefor li(e,to fave my Con• · (cience, faitlt tbe.go<lly 'man. ' . ·4; ·oood £-.oniCience doth not onely .,. bear. up t.he Spjr~t with· invincible Pa,- • • r< •• tienc.e under ·<\ll Preffi1res', but it 11noint! _. · ·• · t the -head.witb; 9·ile, and caufeth .the cup to ~ uq over _wirlt Joy andCon(ttlation. His e~cellencie herein is beyon9 all expreffion-. Good Confdences Peace is th~ Peace that ·:h ~,!0 tam Funt Die1 ejut jucundi, quam {t ~uotidi~ lautiffime deretxr. ·Junius in Ioc. ... \ . "'' .. . ·.paifeth un.der{h.l.IJAing. It makes ~ Heaven on ean4, ~-- t;o11lti1J~t~l feaft, Prov, 1).I) • 'Ihe merry h~art) QU.f lat,~ Tranflation· rc~deth it, · bath a"ontinuaJ .foJft; Ban~ cor4e. Ar~ MoJt– tanus. L4ti corde•.Junius. :H~ hat~ B~nj~~min's Mefs be(ore 'him, his _fare js far above _the qrdinade :. The .brea~ he hath ~Q eat, Qth~rs· knQW. not of, nor _ <;\o.~h tbe ftr_anger inter-

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