'The !(!!Jet Cqnflieiue ----:--'----- Cap.! 8. fin, to rejoyce and fleep a pcrpetuall fleep · -~~and ifthefe gojleeping to HeY, which is to di; likeLamb.r) as the world faith, The judge– ment is the greater. Or elfe this Confcience lfai. 42 . 14 • now afieep will · arife and crie out li~ a travelling wom$n, it will deftroy and devoure at . once.Sinwill not alwaybekept out ofdoors, but will break in and lie down with thee in thy difirefs , Job 20. 1 I. · Joftphs brethren had their Confdences afleep long , but at . l afl: it awakened, and ftared in their faces, and made them tremble. JonahJConfcience Was once afleep in the midft of hisfin, when he was out ofGods way; he was aileep alfo in the midft of the [form , but Gud would have him awakened ere he had done with bir.n, He £hall pe caft out of the Storm into . the Sea to awake him, and out of the bellie of the Sea into the bellie of the Whale to awake him, and out oftheWhales bellicr in– to the Bellie of Hell, and there he awakes: Jonah 2.2.. Andtherehe cries, Out of the bellie of Hell I cried, and thou beardeft my voice. Awakened, guiltie , flaring Confcience is Hell op~ned, here is crying in this Hell, and there may be he.1ringand mercie for thefe : Thefe are in– deed in Purgatorie, and for fi1ch fouls praierJ may be nude, Ex hoc inferno redemptio. But . the Qeeping Confcience is hell _{hut up, and ·· ' . ..f foaled; there is.no cryjng, and therefore no hearing. When Peter was ~Geep; thqugh he had a guard fet tlporr him, and was laid in irons,
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