246- . Natural/ Confoiente nogoodConfcienct~. , 'Cap. I 8, be of 6-od, , bst t hefo which are of men on;!J. • 2. Becaufe it is not purgedby theblo1edof JPrinbJ)ng; It is without Chrift, therefore Eph. 2 ' 12 " without God, andCovenant~ and Promife, and Hope, and Mer~ie. · . 3· Becaufe as it hath not the purif)ring E1ek.36. bloudofthe LambJ fo nor the p11rifying. wa· 2)· ter of the fpirit ffirink.[,ed on it, whereby it: fhould becleanfed, nowwhatfoeveP i1 born of the flefb i1 fiill butJlejh, ando,nely that which if born of the JPirit i1 JPirit. Joh.,.6 . 4• Becauft: it hath not Faith, which is that;; whereby the heart is further purified, A{l. t 5·9· And tihe Apoftle,when he bidsTimothy ho-ld faith and a good Crmfcience, tells us as much, that firft faith mufi be had, and then good Confcience. Good Confcience is ne– ver without Faith,never beforeFaith: ThisConfd,ncehowevermany may lull . ·themfelves afleep on it, yet u it a bedfbortcr lfai.22!2e~ then that a manfhould ftrelch himfelfon it, and a coveringnarrower thm that a man Jhould map him[elf in it. No fure Refuge is it, and a ih·ong fort it is not toendure a fiorming : It is not the Ark ofNoah, ofMofes it may be, not an Ark of Gopher wood, but made ::,f Paper Rufhes, no.t pitched with Pitcb • ·but daubed with Jlime; not furn.ifht with all manner ofProvifion,as Noahs was to hold G · Ollt to theu~mofi for awho/11 year and longer, . en, ?. ll· b 1 fi . tt. r d h . 1 r.. wirh Gen. ut utter yun ,urnllut_ ror a ay, t at un ets tl.~i· he be taken out of it, as ll4ofe1 was, he may } there lie and crie, and famiLh and perifh. This
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