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

That they will not go to such a Tavern▪ nor to such a company for this and that long time; some will, it may be, after the committing of such or such a gross sin, vow no• to ea• flesh on such a day of the week, throughout their whole life; they will, it may be, vow to be more religious▪ but so soon as the conviction, or trouble is over, they remain still the same, and their Conscience lets them alone, they take their own sinful latitudes, and are found to have been all along, and still the same old carnal men; because they aimed nor singly at peace with God through Christs blood, but for the •ime to stop the mouth of their Conscience. 3ly. Some seek to compense the Conscience, or to compense sin to the Conscience, and not to purge it; they will, it may be, take some penance on themselves; and this is it that leads not only Papists to their penances, whippings, pilgrimages, &c. but many ignorant Protestants to make peace with their Conscience, by a covenant of works; They will pray, and seek after tears in prayer, they will invite, in a manner themselves ⟨p. 344⟩to mourn, they will give some thing by ordinary to the poor, and set themselves to amend some things for the time to come; and yet the defilement and pollution of Conscience •yes on still unremoved, because they never be-took themselves to the right fountain to wash at, to the blood of Christ to be purged; Hence, the Jews ordinarily betook themselves to their sacrifices, and legal washings and purifyings; when they sinned, if they brought a bullock, calf, lamb or a goat, they thought they had done enough; and therein had a sort of peace, such as i• was; but says the Apostle, it was not that which made them […], as pertaining to the Conscience, none of these, nor all of these could purge, or truly pac•sy it; because they could not take away the quarrel betwixt God and them; and thus many professors of the Gospel betake themselves to external ordinances, or outward performances of duties▪ and rest on these; I do not condemn, nor dissuade from these duties, which are good in themselves, because commanded by God, but your resting on them; and would have you to put a difference betwixt founding your peace on them, and the founding of it on the blood of Christ applied to the Conscience by faith; O! seek not thus to bribe the conscience, for as it will not be boasted, so neither will it be bribed. 4ly.