The ill troubledConfcience. ~71 ___ _:___..._____--:::-----.: ... ~mnot therefore I may yet feek and t;)btain Cap. I 8. merCie.' In the bellie ofheOI may be, yet I will · look up to Gods Timple 1 and Mercie-feat., as . Jonab faid; what though I cannot beheve l Jonah 2.: • .yet I will not dejpair j though I cannot pray, yet I will loo~up. · Though I cannot &et out · of the bellie of bell, yet God can brmg me out, and can make the Whale land me, and make all tempefts and dangers to be means to preferve me.Though I have finned again£1: the Grace, the Go[pet, the Promife, and the Spirit, yea againfi Chrift Jefit.!, yet have I not , finned nor can I above and beyond the help and faving benefit of Grace, and Gujpel, and Promifes, and of Chri ft and his Spirit. Now there is alfo a troubled Confcience, then which there can be none better,it is the Sacrifice of S~Zcriftcer which God will not Pf~I.st.t7 defpife ; it is theTemple of Temple~, in which lfat.S7·17· God hath promifed his refidence; it is the&: 66 • 2 • Holy of Holiu, in which the Mercie-feat of God is placed. . · And this trouble of Confdence is thenSix ~ores ' good when you fee thefe .fix notes there: of a good Wh h. bl · I fi Ji troubled 1. . ~n t Is trou e Is rat 1er or m, Confdencc thenmz[erte ; when the foul crieth out Lam. 5;16. Wo to me, for I ha?Je finned; Thus was r~penting EphraimJ cafe defcribed, He[mote Jer.3 1 • 1 9· huhand onhi1 thigb, becaufe the fin ofhuyouth lay heavie itpon him, which was more then if he had cried out ten times more becaufe the hand ofGod had lain heavie up~n him.· 2. When in thiscondition the poor troubled foul
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