~54 'rhe del11ded Confcience. Cap. I 8. The, whole world is full ofquiet Confci.. .. .. ences, becaufe full of deluded Confciences. . ' The Angels- account when they returned · was, That they walk.!_d to and fro thorw t~e Zech. I.r i. eartb,anrl behold atl the earth fittethflill,and i4 at reft. The mofi ofmen are fetled ontheir leu, and have this belief in their heart, That God wilt neither do one thing orother~ neither gofJd or evil; what-ever mendo,Zeph.r ~~ 2. Howo r– dinarie is it for mofi men to flatter them• {elvesin their own eyes, and to fay, I fht:~ll · h11'fle peace Jlill ; though I adde dr~nk!,nneji ·to ~h,p. Deut.29. I 9? Noobfervatton among all the Proverbs is more often verified then ~hat of Everymans way helng good in his orrm eyu~when the end thereof prgves the way-ofdea"th, · Prov.14.12. and 16·25. Yea there be many that live and die in this condition, an~ go away withou~ any horrour and roaring ofConfcience, whom t he fo l world calls blej[ed,faying they die like lamb1, P a ·73·4· having nobandr indeath, nor trouble upon Confcience. Whenas they die rather like Prov. 7 .z 2 • Salomon.r oxe, whogoes to-thejlaughter, or the fool , · who goes to the flock:!, when neither is aware. Or if you will have them die like lambs, likeJeremie's L.:Jmbs they die, Jer. 51.38,39· .T_hey aredrun~n with delufions, and jl~ep a per~etualjleepbefore they tlie, therefore theyrejoyce., aizd are focure, but I will bring them li~ lambs _,~ thefl~ugbter, &c. faith the Lord. And they lball not awake till they are .awakened in hell. It i1givm tohim to be in fafitie for t~little · whUeJ
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