7he quiet Confcience Cap. .I 8. Confcience would be quiet, therefore he • - fets upon buGnefs of building, and travells 1 Sam.16. to go from his difcontents. Saut ·makes ufe ~~11,23· of mnfick. Felix would frop his prefd1t ' 2 4· 2 S'• trembling by an abrupt diverfion. I will take another more convenient feafon pur... pofely for this Meditation. Judr.H would Matt.27,.3, fill up the mouth of hell and clamours of 4,5. Copfcifnce with loud and bitter Confe.ffiont, fearfull Exclamations, and plenarie Reflitution. Some call for wine, and Mirth to cheer James S·S· thernfelves againfl: a day of Oaughter. All which is like the drinking cold water to one who is in aftaver, who for the prefent findes relief, but his feaver is increafed thereby. Four ill There are[BUr !J2.!!iet Confcknces, and ne.. q~iet Con" ver an one of them good : k1en't5 : 1. The ignorant mans Confdence is quiet 1 • The Ig· ·and fiill; and as the blinde man eates norant . 1 . d d . k a· .r. mans con- many a 1a1r, an nn s many a re ; 10 fcience. thefe know not that, they do evil, no more · · Luk.l 1.44• then thegravu are aw.2re who goeth over them. Blindeneji of minde makes men paft feeling, when they commit alluncleannefl with greedinefiEphe[.4·18, I 9. · Abimelech talks much of his IntetTritie and Gen.:o. ~ ,Vprightneji, and frands much upon his Con... fcknc~.,when all ·was but mnralitie or igno... ranee. Without knowledge the Confcience cannot,.as without Confcience knowledge · Luk.Il·P' i~ not good. The Scr~~tnre fomewhere cals - Knowledge the Key, but rf Knowledge be the Ke;J Confdence muft be the Loc~., The one . llltlft
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