oft an evil Confcience~ ~6; ;0g~od trouble this, it had no good fpring, Cap. I a: but came from hence, that he feared he , {hould be difiurbed in his Dominion,and his ufurped'power {hould beaboli{hed. So Prov. 4.16. There be they that c~nnot Jleep if th~ have dotJe no mifchief all day. Thefe troubles are not from fin, but for it, that they m~y.effe8: it~ Hell is fi1ll of 1i1ch troubled fptnts. · This is indeed the Devils trouble, The unclean fpirit going thorow places, where there is no good to be done(for h1s purpofe) feeketh refr, but findeth none. This is cum diabolo con(cire, orconfentire, andmay be cal.. · led the Devils Confcience. 2. vVhen ifit be at allfor fin, it is not f~ ·much for the intrinfecal evil and finfulnefs that is in fi n,as in regard of theevemua/Jand -– confequential evils that attend fip, and the punifhment that follows. Thus Ahab after his fin is troubled, walks heavily, fUts on fackcloth, and is humbled, and fafrs, and li~s i? fackcloth, ~ King.2X ·27· But al! thi~ aao ts not for gnefof the fin committed> but for fear of the punifhment threatened. So didCain crie out becaufe of his punilhment, JudaJ becaufe he muft be damned, ·Magut defires praiers that none of thofe evils told him of by Peter fhould come upon him, and A8:.S.l~· 1>here was all his trouble. This is to be troubledfa,. Hell,not for fin. Hell it felf is full of fuclt ·troubled Confciences , where \Pere is continuall weeping , wailinj!., and ~najhi11" ,,
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