Motive1to get agood Confoience g49 leaves not his placet~ any other. C2:p.2 5. · Eter•ity is a pit which hath no bottome, ---– it is a largebottonte tha.t can never be unravelled, it is a Center . which hath no cir– cumference .' no meafiiJ;'e of times ) or number of Ages can fathomor reckon the length ofit. It hath ever a ?eginning ofhi's dayes, bath never an end ot his years :when 'lime{hall be no more, Eternity is but ber)ntling. It is a long and perpetua11night,which lhall never have a morning to fucceed it. Now to all Eternity thy evill Confciencc {hall accompany thee, aDd ~11 thy heart with new tortures of Grief, and fear, and wrath, and bitterne£Ie, and defpair. But this third woe mnft never have an end, · , · Principal and they . . two. Means. The means to be ufed, to the get– ting and keepirtg of good Confci– ence, are~~ .. Subfervient,4nd they man1• .The Principal means, and without which 1. The all the 'refi: are infufficient, are two. Firfi: to ~h~~of get the blouaofChriftfprinkled on the Conn · I fcience by the hand of faith. As Vavid faid of Goliab's fword, There-H none to that, give# 1 Sam.:~. -me, So may we fay ofthis bloud. Thi1pu'r- 9 • · r,eth the Co11{cience from all' deadworlv, that it -may ferve the livingGod; Heb.9.14• , All du- / ties, gifts, obfervances, Performances, no- · , thing to this : Other things may make the out-fide dean before men , the bloud of • Cbrift
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