Natura/1confciet~cenflgoodconftience. 247 This fort is no better then that hold of the c'ap.I 8. idol Jberith to which when the men of She- · t:hem fled for Refuge, it was fired over their Judg· 9,. heads, and they perifhed miferably in it. A 4 6 ·49• . poor man a'nd this natural! Confdence may perith and burn together. · Oportet Confcientiam non folum honam effe, & tr&nquillam,Jed& fe~uram. Bern.Par.Ser. • . 4· The fourth ufc difcovers another nli– fiake of theirs, who judge their Confcience good when it is 'nothing fo. With many , that is held for the beft Gonfdence, that is · moft frill, quiet, .and fleepie ; as ignorant people think ofa Minifter, he Is the beft Mi– nifrer who is the good neighbour, the quiet man, who troubles none, even he in whofe _mouth i$ no reproofs. Whereas the Prophet – 'faith, They who blefs the people, c.Jufe them to erre, and they who are called bleffed of them, are deftroyed, Ifai. 9.16. and 3.12. The blindeIe~d the bllnde into the ditch. But a man may have fo much of this Peace till he be theworfe again: He may have 'thi-s Peace too foon, he may have it toa long. There is a Peace of Satans g.iving, Luk.tt.2I. As there is a J word and variance of Chrifts fending, l .uk. I z.51. The kingdom of God i1 righte- . oufnefr, Peace, and Joy in the ho!J Ghoft, R0m. I 4· I 7. The kingdom ofSatan is ignorance, an~ ~eace, and joJ: in unholy courfes : y'ct this 1s the Confctence which moft men call good, if it be Pacatl bon~, they care not though it be m.sle Pacata. Cain defires his R. 4 · Con- . ~
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