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Again, if thou behold thy ¹Conscience, it is impure, polluted, without light, or life, or glory in thee; shut up in a dungeon, excusing thee in many faults, and accusing thee for things are not faults, but in thy conceit: and when it doth accuse thee for sin, it rageth and falleth mad with unbridled fury and terrors, keeping no bounds of Hope or Mercy.

Againe, if thou behold thy ¹Conscience, it is impure, polluted, without light, or life, or glory in thee; shut vp in a dungeon, excusing thee in many faults, and accusing thee for things are not faults, but in thy conceit: and when it doth accuse thee for sin, it rageth and falleth mad with vnbridled fury and terrors, keeping no bounds of Hope or Mercie.

1. 1An• in thy Conscience.

Further, if thou observe thy ¹Affections, they are altogether impotent in that which is good, there is no lust in thee after that which is good; and yet they are all out of order, and prone to continual, rebellion, against God, ⟨p. 688⟩ready to be fired by all the enticements of the World, or the Devil, Gal. 5. 24. Thirdly, unto these add thy innumerable ²Actual sins, which are more then the hairs of thy head; multiplied daily in thought, affection, word, and deed; the least of them deserving hell fire for ever: thy sins of Infancy, Youth, Old age; sins of Omission and Commission; sins in Prosperity and Adversity; sins at Home and Abroad; sins of Infirmity and Presumption. If David looking upon his sins, could say, They have so compassed me, and taken such hold on me, that I am not able to look up: Oh then, if thou haddest sight and sense, how mightest thou much more cry out of the intolerable burden of them? and the rather, if thou observe, that many of thy corruptions reign tyrannically, and have subdued thy life to their vassalage, so as thou art in