272 The trouhledConflience ~hengooJ. Cap. I 8. foul doth conjeft, bewail, and lament his i1n. -- · Pfal.5 1·3· My fin .u ever before me, I will f:IC• ]oh4o. kt!owledgemyfinJ&c. What fbal I[ay 5 Oh thou 3,4~ preferverofmen·: for I havefinned? JobJ.~O. 3· When upon fuch c~nfoffion andhewzif,. ing of fin; he forfak!_r it. Prov.z8 .13. Th~ Promife ofMercie is to fi1ch. Such a trou-" bled foul faith, Behold I am vile, what Jhalt i anfwer thee?_I will lay myhandupon my mouth. Once have l JPokJn, bt~t I wilt not anfwer ; yea twice, but Iwill proceedno further, . . . 4· When not o nelyfin isfotfak!,n in refpetl: of the outward all, but the heart is €hanged and mortified to the love offin : when God · bath bidden all pride from man, .Job 33.17! by means of all his trouble ; this is a good trouble, when the fin.. troubled foul faith~ I ftnde now more bitter then death the wr;mau rvhofo heart iJfoaru and netJ, and h~r hands tJf bandJ,fl'hofoplea[eth God Jhal be delivered from her. Ecclef.7.26. 5. Wh"n the heart is not onely chltiged from the love offin, but is carrifdout to feek ~tat. U· after ChriJl ~r reft, ~ndRighteou(nc;fs; when .2 9 • we go to thtg PhyGtiaH to get reft to thefoul, z~ch.13 .1. and go to this Fountain to wafh away fin ]oh,3.14; and undeannefs. Thofe are happie ftings of !S· ,the ferpent, that caufe us to look up to the brazenftrpent. And that Purfuer cloth us no hurt which dot.h drive us the fafl:er to the Citie of Refuge. · 6. Laftly, when after all this, the Coa• fcience is mademorecareful, and more tender ever
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