The illtroubledConfcience. Cap. I 8, himJ.dt; fafts, mourns, puts on fackcloth, ---goes fottly. All good, but all this not emugh; . Good to do thefe, not to reft in thefe : Abab was Ahab frill, no inward change at all in him. Judas is full of inward horrour, he makes aQ outward confeffion of his parti– cular fin,makes plenarie Refiitution ofwhat he had fmfully gotten but there he refts, he goes no~penitentially to God; he goes not fiducially to Je[U! Chrift, whom he had fold, or g~ven up all his former interefl: in : but all this-he cloth to Hop the mouth of Con.. fcicnce, apd tqdead that hideous n0ife that was within.' :Thus do we fee others .taking up duti~s often, and here they rdl: They faft, praY., read, hear more then formerly;all to gratifie Confcience, and keep it from · ·grumbling and clamor. Somewhat they do, ali they do no~,that they fhould do. All this to a fin-troubled Confdence is no more to the cure of it, then a dtaught of cold water' 'i?wardly, or pouring cold .water outward.,. .Jy on a bodie burning in a feaver; It may allay at· prefent, but removes no pa.r.t, or caufe ofhis difeafe. Thefe torment, and task themfelv;es, tur· ning themfdves up and down, as Solomo~ts P ,. 6 J fluggard on his bed, or the door.turning ro .... · 4· on his hinges; there is no departure from the bed, or from the door-Poft. So is here much turning, no returning: therefore Je· remy calls all this but gadding., a wilde and diforderly gadding, not" a regular going, or penitent
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