,. 342 Motives to get agoodconfcience~ C~p,25. BLltthereare two greater for hereafter, Con– iciencc help– it?g Ad tut o intrepideq; compa.. rendum.. Ad Glorio1e tturneq; triumphandum, · ~~~tt.judgConfcience hath two other kindneffts · which it will doe for the Soule beyond thofe two fore-named iJ.1 life and death, It will ftand a man in ftead when he is to make his apptarance before the Tribunal ofGod. 'WhereCourage dares not {hewhis face, nor Eloquence open his mouth, where ~ajeftit bath np refpefr, and Greatneffe no favour ,. (and as t~e Martyr faid) Wbere money bear1 na mt!fte,y ; There good Confcience is known and befriended, there it dares appear, thither it cloth appeal, when theKing, and the Captain, and the Great tn<Jn, and the Mighty man, and the ·chie:fCammander, and R 6 S the Rich, and the Bond, and theFree, cry tfJ the ·1~:· .I • mountain! to hitle them, and.to the rock! to ft:Jll on them, that they may nnt appear. Then dotl goodConfcience lif~ up his head, this is the day it bath longed tor, and the placewhere •t defires to b~ heard. Hereby we know faith h e Apofile; that we are of the truth, and 1 Jo ·3· 20 ' {hall alli1re our hearts 'before him ' for if 21· . h h our heart €ondemn us not, t . en ave w<; PJidppr,tTt'd.v confidmce (or boldneffi) before God. This · L tbertatemwill make the Godly man in that great Au– ~ut a~da~i- dit ta eive 1tb hil ac~oum with jr:J andnot with am qutdvu .' ~ ".{ · " d-i.endJ . g'f-1 if. .- · 1 lafily,
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