Three treatises tending to awaken secure sinners

6 Conscience it self will be most effectual witness against the wicked at that day. I before told you it will be a Discerner, and force ⟨p. 195⟩them to a Confession: But a further office it hath, even to witness against them. If none else in the world had known of their secret sins, conscience will say, I was acquainted with them.

7. The spirit of Christ can witness against the ungodly, that he oft moved them to Repent and Return, and they rejected his motions: that the spoke to their hearts in secret, and oft set in with the Minister, and often minded them of their case, and persuaded them to God; but they resisted, quenched and grieved the Spirit, Acts 7. 51. As the Spirit witnesseth with the Spirits of the righteous that they are the children of God, Rom. 8. 16. so doth he witness with the Conscience of the wicked, that they were children of Rebellion, and therefore are justly children of wrath. This Spirit will not alway strive with men; at last being vexed, it will prove their enemy, and rise up against them, Gen. 6. 3. Isa. 63. 10. If you will needs Grieve it now, it will Grieve you then. Were it not a Spirit of Grace, and were it not free mercy that it came to offer you, the Repulse would not have been so condemning, nor the witness of this Spirit so heavy at the last. But it was the Spirit of Jesus, that came with recovering Grace, which you resisted: And though the wages of every sin is ⟨p. 196⟩death, yet you will find that it will cost you somewhat more to Reject this salvation, than to break the Creators •aw of works. Kindness, such Kindness, will not be rejected at easy rates.