Motiv~.r toget thegoodConfcienee. 339 ''happy when he fate upon;:he dung-hill, Cap. 2 s. ''thanAdam when h/e finned ia Paradiie; .. ··-~ ''becaufe though his body were diffolved "in to worms_, ~and every worm acted by a; '' Devili ( as Origen would have it ) to in- · "creafe his torment ; yet he had I\Ot eaten . ,, the forbidden fruit,which bred this worm ~of Confcience, and made him fly from "God. The Bride that hath good Chear ''within, and good mufick, and· a good '' Bridegroorne witli her, may be merry. ''though the hail chance to rattle upott 'the tyle~S without upon her wedding-day; ''Though the world fhould rattle about his "ears, a man may fit merry, that fits at the '' Feafr of a good Confcience. .Nay, the " ' Child pf God by virtue of thi~, in th~ . '' midfiotthewaves of affiiftion,is as fecure '' as that child which in a Ship_wrack. was "upon a, plank, in,his mother s lap, till the "awakedhim, fecilfelyGeeping, and then ''with his pretty countenance fwcetly fmi– 'cr ling, and by andby fportingly asking a tc firoke to beat the naughty waves, and at 'c lafi when they continued boyffrous , for cc all that, fbarply chiding them, as though ''they had been but his play-fdlowes0 " the innocency! 0 the eom fort ofPea'ce ! '' 0 die tranquility ot ·a fpotleffe mind! ''There is no Heavet1 fo clear as a good '' Confcience. So that learned Doctor. ' Good Confcience is to a man his dofdl: anddcarefr friend, that like Baruch to ]ere– my will viiit hhn in prifon, and will keep · · · Z 2 · his '
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