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For, Tenthly; Therefore, the Judg shall proceed to the last Acts of Judgment, ¹which are Two, first to Pronounce them guilty of all the Treasons and Misdemeanours which those wretches have been Indited of. The Judg indeed (to vindicate the justice and equity of the Court) will demand of the Convict Sinner, Whether he hath any thing to say for himself, why he should not receive Judgment to Dye, and Sentence to be Executed according to Law? but now Conscience shall speak impartially between the Judg and the Sinner, justifying the Judg, and Condemning the Sinner; who having before hand received in himself the Sentence of Death, shall now be [Greek or Hebrew] without-excuse, ²not able to make the least apology or defence on his own behalf, but shall confess before that formidable Assembly; Lord, though thou judg me to everlasting flames, yet thou dost me no wrong, but art justified in what thou speakest, ³and clear when thou judgest; and alas! What a miserable thing is this, that all the time that the Sinner and his Conscience dwelt together under one Roof, and Conscience would fain have spoken out; the vile wretch should stop the mouth of his own Conscience, and never suffer it faithfully to do its office, till now, when it will do him no good, and tend to no other end but to justify God, and to aggravate his own Condemnation! Oh that Sinners would seriously consider this, and lay it to heart in time, and hearken to the secret whispers of Conscience before it be too late; ⁴and deal kindly with Conscience now, that Conscience may deal kindly with them in that day, when one good word from Conscience, will be worth a thousand worlds. Oh if the Sinner would have done that once willingly which now he doth whether he will or no, if he would have judged himself in the day of the Gospel; it might have prevented this fatal Judgment now, he should not have been judged of the Lord: ⁵Oh if the Judg would now speak such a word to the Convicted multitude of Reprobate Cast-aways, as once he did to wretched Sinners! Behold I make you this Offer, that, if yet before I proceed to Sentence, you will unfeignedly judg your selves, I will not judg