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Rh thee only, have I ſinned, and done this evil in thy ſight.’ David had a very tender conſcience, for, when he cut off Saul’s ſkirt, his heart ſmote him, his conſcience accuſed him, as you may ſee Sam, xxi. 5. O but how many wicked men are there now, whoſe conſciences tell them over and over, again and again of their ſins, and yet for all that they ſtop their ears againſt conſcience?

how many times doth the beaſtly drunkard’s conſcience, the profane ſwearer’s, the Sabbathbreaker’s conſcience, tell them of their ſins; yet notwithstanding for all the checks of conſcience, they will go on in their ſins, and fill up the meaſures of their iniquities, and ſo make conſcience, to fill up the black ſcroll of indictments againſt them, whereby they are all everlaſtingly condemned, O! if men would be but convicted in their conſciences of the evil of their ways, when their conſciences tell them of it! How many thouſands might be brought home by repentance to life eternal, who now run headlong to their deſtruction! I am perſuaded that many who cozen and cheat, by undermining and overſelling, by uſing falſe and light weights and meaſures cannot chuſe, but meet with many checks from their