'fhe generall want ofConfcience ldmtnted. ~99 Cap.2o. _ . CH A.' P. XX. Of tbe feconJ Applicationof the Point bJ way of Lamentation.• T'He fecond Ufe is ofLamentation : A d it may 1 • Be a Generall Lamentation c.arrying a Woin themouth ofit for the Ge– nerall want .of Good Confdences in this ~ge. And 1 may juftly make it as large as -=hat of our Saviour Matth. 18. 7. Wo t1 tbe world, faith he , kecatt{e of offences. All the world is faultie in this kinde more or lefs~ So maywe fay,.Wo to the world, becaufe of iiJ Confciencer. All the world in generall, and mofr called Chriftians in particular herein being blame-worthy: Run-to andfro into the ·CitieJ of Ijrael, and in the ftreetJ of Jer~tfalem", Jer.s.I· -andenquire, and fee ~~you ca11 finde ~ man of ·confcience in tbi-1Generation. We may change 'Job's Qg.xr~, Vbinam invenienda eft{apientia, Job28.u, -&ubinam eft locmlntelligentit£ f Where uwif- · aQ•.' dom to befouu.d 1 and where if the place of ,nt/er. panding 1 into ubinam invenienda eft Con- .Jcientia, & ubinam eft LocvJ l11 tegritati1? wbere ·iJ Confcience tobe foimd, and what i1 the Place of Integritie? The befi of men that make "Enquirie after her complain that fhee is not feen fo much abroad as lhe was wont to be. ·Themofi of men fay that fhee is either <\e- - . r~ned~o+- drawing on towar.i her dep;~,rture: · · · .And
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