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12 conſciences. And O that men would be convinced of their great evil.

Hear this, O ye that ſwallow up the needy by falſe weights and meaſures? O be convinced in thy conſcience, make conſcience thy friend now, by forſaking thy evil practices, left conſcience prove thy foe to torment thee for ever. But men, now a-days, inſtead of being convinced in their conſciences of the evil of their ways, are not aſhamed to commit all manner of abominations, and that with greedineſs, and then lay all the blame upon their poor conſciences: And why ſo? It was my conſcience, ſay they. As many of out diabolical Ranters, Quakers and notorious Libertines, in theſe our days, have laid all their impieties and and horrid blaſphemies upon their conſciences. Aſk them but the reaſon why they deny Chriſt and the ſcriptures, and caſt off the ordinances and miniſtry of Chriſt, and live as they lift, and refuſe ſubjection to magiſtrates, and in their actions become worſe than beaſts; why, they do hold ſuch damnable and deviliſh opinions, both againſt God and Chriſt; yea againſt humanity itſelf? Aſk them the reaſon of theſe things, and what do they ſay? It is from the light within us, it is the