yfGod within, and endorfed without with Cap.24o the graces and fruits of the Spirit, andat • r_• la~ paffed in th~CoHrt, anden~red ii? theOf • . ftce of good Confc!ence. Thts, this is the Aifurance of the Saints, when Gods Spirit attefls to our Spirit, and again our Spirit cloth withal confent with the Spirit ofGod. The oth_er benefit of good Confcience 2 AtDeatll here, is at death, when as it enables anddi-, relts adbene ·b~aJeq; ~oriendum; an underta- ·- king that all Philofophy :could never make _ good, nor did attempt, but didonelypremife the way ad bene beateq; vivmdum, yet felllhort of that. C(imfcience is the way to well-living, it is the onely way to well-dying. This gives rejoycing ( as the ApG.>ftle faith ) to him that is under the fet1tence and frroke ofdeath, and is HOW defpairing al-. ., , together of this life. Good Confciepce, as 2 Cor. I·, , it i~ Jweeter than lifo, fo it is Jlt~onger than 9 • death:· and the good man·and his Confci- · ence are likeSaul and JonstharJ, lovtly in their · life; and which is above all, in dtath they are not diYided. The goods embarqaed in . -, . good Conference are the onely goods which Hu;ufmodt .will be fa;ved _when there is any fhipwrack ~O:P[::t11~ ... .of State or. L1fe. And thof~ are the good.t we pes,qu~tcum fho~tld get, f'ard the E;mperour Lewu of Bczvy- na~fragio .t!r; which i~1 a ~Jipwrack can fwim out aJ well ftmul e~~~ .M thy felf. A faying alfo which~Mary is tent P~t?e ... ~aid to have Engliihed, and muchdelighted ~~1~~~;~~ 1n. ~, Thefe are twogreat Benefits in this Life here. . Z 3· ' 'But ' . I
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