The hardenedConfcience. jigns, .wonder;,tempta~iont, de~iveranccs, . con- Cap. I 8. . fu iJ ons, and the hewmg of hvs Prophets, andDent. 29• _hu tJwn flaying mby the word of h~tmouth, and 3,4. meltingus under Mercies, Ord~nances_, an_d Hof. 6. >· offers of his Grace, and intreanes ofhrsMl- '.nifiers, yet do we as ~~r fliff-neck,_ed and uncir· A8:s 7· s r. cumcifed-hearted Fatheu> alway refift hu Grace and Spirit,till there is almd{f no remedie.There- 2 Chro.36. .fore no wonder for .all this his anger is not t6. · ~turned away, but his hand is ftretched out Jtill, Ifo. 9· ult. · · Yet there is a quiet Confcience that is a good when qu~· Ponfcience, when it ispurifiedas well as pa.ci- et Confc1· Jied, ~s· was ;(aid b~fore, _when it hath d01:e e;)~~$~~: all hts four Offices,a.nd fpeaketh peace, thaus na & tran· a happy pellce ,· and when it bath thofe ten fpilla Con· prflpertiu ofgopd <;::onfclence before fpoke of, [ciemi~ eo. v i z . of faith, of puri tie, of finceritie, of in- r um r.f1.u~~ar: ff fi i: . d f h . . . d h . . . nem pmtut o en wene1s, an o c anue, an w en1t 1s fu bdzdmmr, a well fighteq, well fpoken , and an honeH rtui cum hu ::.dealingConfd~nce, when it is rightly tender qui oderl!nt an,<:{ r-ightly ht~rdy, and aft er all thefe (peak- pare:n (unt h Th . · 1 1 · h cPac~ftcz. _et peace. 1s 1s t 1e one y ng t peace 01 B . p ~ r · h h «. h d ern. ar. "-'OlllCience, t epeace t at pat1et un er- Serm Jhqding. • , .5 V fe. Th.e fi ft u[e is to difcover another . ~rdinark mifrake in men , who are apt to .Judge a troubled Confcience a goodConfci.. .ence, and for no other reafon, but becaufe trt~ub led. The(e are the third fort ofmen who are mifiaken in judging ofConfcience ; thefe are as !lmch out as the former, they judged Confc1ence good,becanfe quiet ; thefe on the ' S 4 · other
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