Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace…

If an ill and unpurged Conscience be silent and a sleep, its in some respect worse, for it hath this black and dreadful awakening abiding it; and the longer it sleep and keep silence, the the wakening will be the more terrible, and its cries the louder; Its all the while of its silence and sleeping, treasuring up more wrath, whereby the poor wretch will be payed home with multiplied increase of terror, and horror, O! that ye knew how evil a thing, how very evil a thing it is to have a Conscience not purged from dead works, a Conscience not sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ: as no stranger can intermeddle with the joy of a mans Spirit, who hath a good Conscience, a Conscience sprinkled and purged by the blood of Christ; so no man can to the full represent to you the exceeding terribleness of the terror of an evil Conscience, when awakened by the wrath of God pleading and pursuing a quarrel with the Soul, which quarrel he is infinitely powerful to avenge; It would be very suitable to be often enquiring at our selves, what is become of the quarrel? and what solid ground of peace and confidence towards God is there? We will all most certainly, and inavoidably be put on this great trial, O! suffer not your selves to be so far deluded, as to think that a silent and stupid Conscience, is a good Conscience, and hath no danger with it, which is as great folly as to think that a feeless and benumbed member of the body is thereby in ⟨p. 340⟩•o danger, nay the danger is so much the greater.

If an ill and unpurged Conscience be silent and a sleep, its in some respect worse, for it hath this black and dreadful awakning abiding it; and the longer it sleep and keep silence, the the wakning will be the more terrible, and its cryes the lowder; Its all the while of its silence and sleeping, treasuring up more wrath, whereby the poor wretch will be payed home with multiplyed increase of terrour, and horrour, O! that ye knew how evil a thing, how very evil a thing it is to have a Conscience not purged from dead works, a Conscience not sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ: as no stranger can intermiddle with the joy of a mans Spirit, who hath a good Conscience, a Conscience sprinkled and purged by the blood of Christ; so no man can to the full represent to you the exceeding terribleness of the terrour of an evil Conscience, when awakned by the wrath of God pleading and pursuing a quarrel with the Soul, which quarrel he is infinitly powerful to avenge; It would be very suitable to be often enquiring at our selves, what is become of the quarrel? and what solid ground of peace and confidence towards God is there? We will all most certainly, and inavoidably be put on this great tryal, O! suffer not your selves to be so far deluded, as to think that a silent and stupid Conscience, is a good Conscience, and hath no danger with it, which is as great folly as to think that a feeless and benummed member of the body is thereby in