'thew4nt ~fconfcience the gretttefl 'WJ.tnt.._ .3IS .. - - op,it loft achild hemoarnes, iflofr an eyeorCap.21· an Arme he grieve~,ifby a De~~Palfiehe hath loft the uie ofa .fide, he fees Death on himfelf and reckons himfeltehalfedead, what is it thinkeft thou to have loft thy Confcience? If~~ /4clunr ·2ny Moat or PLJ.fr be in the eye he Rubbes, ·ocules{ejfi· and_wipes his eye,an? c~nnotbe quiet till he ft ti%~~· · ··get It out.I fbut a thiefIn the candle he takes anfmum; . it out, but who is fenfible of the loffe anddifforscrr •fpoyle of Confdence, which is the greatefl: r~n4i tem– lofid Now a man may recover moll loffes,or pus mAn– ·beare any lo!fe but this and not be miferable,. 8um. This he cannot, fight may be loft, and reco-:- · .vered, a child n1ay be loft and .thou mayft have another, credit may be broken and re~ gained, as.I;fephs, fiate brokea and repayred as lobr, liberty loft and regained as Iehoiak.._inri life loft and be redeemed, and a better given for if,but·this is the undoing lofs, this breaks a man for ever,and makes a Bankrupt ofhhu, he never recovers. This was ludaM's Rupture, This man falles downe Headlong, Breakes in pitces in themidft,'a.Il his bowels tall out witli. this fall) and to his place he hafrens. The man that hath loft his Confcience mayjufily cry out with JYJicha's complaint , . . . J¥Jbatba'lJe I moreto loft? I have loft my God, Jud.JS. Jf I have lofi my Priefl, I have loft my Confci- . . , fnce which was tome as both,and what have. 'Ut z11 por· I more? J·have lofriny Jewels and all my~~m~~r~~ goods, thall any ftop my mouth and fay, gendus ejl · what aylefi thou? loffe of Confcience iS like bontJ Confci– the loife ofa Pylot to the Ship, or the loffe of eit't~a ~~tJi: _((ard,Compaffe,Sayles,An,hors to theJ?ylot, ~:~~c~;j;. j .~ theyCalvin. J
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