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Rh because men would have no plea or excuse before the Lord. It was not Pilate’s washing of his hands, and, ‘I am guiltless of the blood of this just man,’ that could wash away the guilt of Christ’s blood from his conscience;— Pilate’s conscience told him, that Christ was a just man, and that he saw no cause of death in him at all, Luke xxiii. 24. And cursed Pilate, contrary to the light of  own conscience, delivered the Lord of  into the hands of bloody men to be, and so brought the guilt of his blood upon his own soul.

He that will not endure conscience to him for his sins, certainly loves to go to hell without controul; and he that will not endure conscience to tell him of  sins here, shall, whether he will or not,  sufficient torment for his sins here-
 * for an evil conscience is an hell to soul here, and shall be the hell of hells

Now then, if there be such a thing in as conscience, and that this conscience either justify or condemn him, then every man take heed how he orders his  in the world. Do not give to yourselves to think, say or do, but what you are willing to own  the Lord at the last day. Therefore,