3~ ~ ~onfcience to be Exai;iined. -------------~ ~-· --------------~· ------- · Clp.24- , ,b.nd fo, whether thofe former Repr;oofs, ·- Terrors, Threats-apd miferies are not like to purfue and overtake him. ., · ' I iball not need here to come to anymor~ newmarks ofdifcovery,ifyou hive wtll at.;. tenqed what was fpoken all along in panq.. litig' 'thofe :·particuhtr good Confdences with their pro2erties; whereto I now refer you. Only let every one' remember that of Ma1·2·1S· the Prophet Malachie, 'Ihe.refore tak!! heed ta i ' : jour Spirit;faith he; let eveyone be W:dl ver– fed in himfel£ There are tbree B"~'kf , well ftudied and compared one with the other, which make theable Divine, or eminent Cbri– Jiian, I. TheBookofScripture. 2.The Book of Providence or Experience. 3. The Book df Clmfcience.''Thefe ·three, I fay, mufi befiudied ailigct1tly and compared : Read any of the t.hree alum, it profits not : Read any two of them without the third,thou wilt be irilper– fe& . I ' t. Scripture knowledge alone,\vithout Ex– perience ilndCgnfcience,makes not a ChrHHat.l. 2: Iy, Pro7Jidetzce and Experience alone; with– out Scrip:tJtre and Con)cience 3~Y.. Confcien~e alon ewithout t~1e other two: ···Non6r yet, ~s I faid~ any twoof tliem without thet~ird. I. Not Scripture and Experience, without Confcience, 2. Not Experience and Con– rcience without Scripture, 3· Not Striptu~e andConfcien'cewithout Experience. ·· ' I Confcience is one of the chiefeft volumes thou rnnft 'read · then, and felfExamination ~sa Chriftians great Taskr·· Therefore faith l · · ·- . :. : ·: Bernard,
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