Sheffeild - Houston-Packer Collection BJ1471 .S5 1650

352.- Mean1to get ag4odconfcience; Cap.25· Confcience alone is not to be credited in ; - ~~ · --for what could the light of our body (the eye ) fee and difcern, if it were not for the light of the Heaven'( the Sun?) we fbould 1 . have a continuall Night. So without the Spirit, the light ofGod, what canCofi– fcience, our light, fee and difcern of the 1cor.~.to; thingsofGod? ThereforetheApoftlefaith, II,u.j that God doth reveal _unto his fervants the deep myflerieJ ofthe GofPel b) his.JPirit ; for theJPirit foarchetb all thingr, yea the deep things ofGod• For what man k...Howetb the things of a. man, [ave theJPirit of manwhich is in him? So the things ofGod~oweth no man but the.JPirit ofGdd.l\Tow . we have receivedtlot the jpirii ofthe world, but the JPirit which is of God, that ~e .may -know the things which tJrefr~e!J given ts us efCod,&c·.So that wherefoever the fpirit of God is, there is the goodConfciel'lce; where it is wanting Confcience cannot be good. Where the ila· · turall enlivening Spirit is abfent, or depar- , · ' ted, there is no life; or veget.ation, or knfe, or reafon,or motion;but all death,darkne£5, coldneife,&c.S o where the enliveningSpiril of Grace is wap.tin:g to the foul, there is nQ life, fenfe, motion, comfort' but all is dead within. and all the works are but dead works. ~It where the Spirit is, there is life; there is light, there is 1iberty, ·and there is purity, there is peace, and there is 'grace, there ·iscomfort and there is Confcience, ~ Subfervi· there isjindeed all. (Dt means. Thefubforuient means arethirte~fi, where.; ofthe firfi fix ·direct ·US what tu'do) the other ,feven what trJ avoid;· Firll

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