cz~nce, (:ap.I 8. l· We are faid tobeborn blinde, blinde ~ we aren.1.tur.-Jlly in fpidtuall things. 2. Then to clofe our eyes wilft.tlly, Matth. 13. I)· 3. To have our eyes clofed Minifleriai!J, lfa. 6. 9· . ~!a't·,Jr )·14 . 4· · Tobe led blindfold h;: Se~ucers, The bltnde lfadi1'1g the blinde ; thoie blmde whof~ f)'eJ God bath put out ; leading .filch blinde whofe eyes th~m(elves haveput out. 5~ Then cloth God clofe mens eyes Ju.. · dicial!J,Joh.I2·40,-- ~om:I 1.8. And laftly, Satan Is fa ;d to clofe the ~u of them to whom the Gofpel is bid., 2 Cor.4.3,4· · ·Now to end this Difcourfe, the world i$ full of Confciences tha~ are har4ened, either by naturall,orvoluntary,or Judicial! harqnefs; Judicially,I fay,either bygodlyMinifterr ac~ot cidentally, or by ·wickedSeducer!p~rpofely, o~ by Satans itZftigation,or byDivim: indignat~on. Eut howfo~ver it comes , all thefe arequiet ·Confciences, and themore.h.trtl the1nnre quiet, the lefs trouble and noife is in the Coufci– ~nce, the lefs life and foundnefS <>rdinarily. This Confcience is quiet ti1l the wor[e . ' . ;tg<l4t· We all complain the world is hard, an4 that times were never mort JJtfl'd, and lef.r qui.- · et, and never more fqll of trouble-s. Thus all complaip. But God (:omplaineth, men andConfciences were never fo ham, though never mort qr-tiet and lds troubled for finun– der Goqs wrath~fearf4l} jqdgements, mighty , . fgn~
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