~oo. t'htg-eneral1114nt ofCottfei~ce,lamen,t.ed~ Cap.20. And prophane ones Cay,that Confcience ~as ~...........- .hanged many a day ~go ;. indeed my Text tells us that•fhee was drowned long ago,and peri!hed in_lhipwrack; but they are much miflaken te. fay_ it was goodC0afcien~a_, f~.c it was the ill ConCcience that.perifhed. The · Good Confcience fears neither the G.allowu, .nor Hell, it is the befi Preferv.ative againfi b th. Btlt fad it is that there is. fo little ·~eE:koningm.ade0fCon(cience now ad2.~es" : Bernards old complaint may be renewed, MutJi Scicntiam, pauci Confcientiam q~£runt. Many are for ~cience,few for Confcil!nee. In ftead ofthat Double KnofVltdge of_which we fpake at firft (for fuch is Confciepce) we have on~ ly fi ngle, which i!SpecultJtion, and therefore in fteadoftingle qcaling (fuch is Sinceritic) we have toomuchofdouble,lwhidUs DijJi– .mulation. In former time we were wont to call the Godly man, The confo.ientiQ~s ma11, The man of ctJnftience. Now we commend the · J.uanofParts, and the able man ; wherea~ when all is .done, the Confcionable IJ'lan will be tound the 11ble m411. And this better Jrov 24 •f • .p;lrt is.thebdl: Parts·. The man ofwifdvm i1 the · • _man of ft rengtb, faid thewifeman; though . nowwe call theproudhappie,and the bold, and daring~an we call wife, judicious, prudent. But did no~ our fathers hearti, ,and Liv€s; and Dealings excell ours much .more then our knowledge, gifts, and light. ~ exceed theirs? Theymight deiire to (ee nHr Jaiu for Libertie of Profcilion, and Puritie • • · • - J' of
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