--------~--~-=~- llO I Jleep,but ~heart. -wakah. ,_ ...... SEa.IIU. tered, yet there is afecret lavero Chrifi, and to '– his cau(e,and fide, j.oyned with joy in rhe wel– fare of the Church and peop·le ofGod, rejoy– cinginthe profperity of the righteous,wirha fe– cret griefe for the contrary. The pulfes will beat rhis way, and good affections wiJJ difcover -themfelves, take him in his fleepy eftate, the judgement is found in the main, the will, the af. fed:ions, the joy, the delighr, the forrow,this is an evidence hisheart iJ atVake. ~· The confcience likewife is awake;the heart is Confoience. takenofr times for the confcience in Scripture, a Prov.Js. t ~· good confcience(caHed amerry heart) $a clnti~ nu"!/fea!P~ Now the confcience of Godsc.;hildren is never fo fleepy, but it awaketh in fome · comfortable meafure, though perhaps it may be H~w th~ con· deaded in a particular act, yet notwithftandiog ~ze,"e1'n 4 . there is fo much life in it, asupon fpeech or conJ'eepy emper u ~ t. •11 b . f . d h'llo'trme to ie 1'-erence,&c.hlerewl · ean openmgo u, an a ~a.k.e. yeelding at the leng~h to the firength of fpiritu- . all reafon, his confcience is not feared ~ Davtd was but a little rowfed bv N4thttn, yet you fee hGwhe prefently confdfed ingenioufly that he ,. Sam. 2 4 ., bad finned:So whenhe hadnumhredthe people, his £onfdence prefently fmote him; ·and when he · Ji Sam.s 3. refolvedtDkiUNahal ttnd all his f.zmily, which was awicked, and carnall paffion,in which there was nothingbut fldh; yet when hewas ftopped by the advife,_ and the difcreet counfell oft.Ahi– gall, we fee how prefently he y.eelded. There is a kind ofperpe~uall tenderndfeQfconfcienc~ in Gods people ~ all the differenceis, ofmore, or l~ffe. . And
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