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A46526	Compunction or pricking of heart with the time, meanes, nature, necessity, and order of it, and of conversion; with motives, directions, signes, and means of cure of the wounded in heart, with other consequent or concomitant duties, especially self-deniall, all of them gathered from the text, Acts 2.37. and fitted, preached, and applied to his hearers at Dantzick in Pruse-land, in ann. 1641. and partly 1642. Being the sum of 80. sermons. With a post-script concerning these times, and the sutableness of this text and argument to the same, and to the calling of the Jews. By R.J. doctor of divinity.	R. J.	1648 (1648)	Wing J27; ESTC R213600	381,196	433

will carry and lead us into a sea of true and solid joy and comfort Other directions in case of wrongs done to men But as these are Remedies given and prescribed by these holy Apostles in respect of God so seeing we wound our consciences often by trespassing against man we must also seek our cure as by the aforesaid means with God against whom we chiefly sin when we sin against our brethren so as the case may require 1 To submit to them Matt. 5.23 24. Jam. 5.16 1 By submission and acknowledgement of our sins against them and by seeking reconciliation with them 2 By Restitution made unto them whether of their good name or of their goods if by usurious contracts extortion 2 To make restitution if need be theft or otherwise we have defrauded wronged or oppressed them by the example of Zacheus when he became a true convert and penitent 3 To desire their prayers Job 42.7 8. or by desiring their pardon and their prayers for us as God himself injoyned Jobs friends to submit themselves to him who else could have no peace with God And thus for this first particular CHAP. XXVI The Apostles considered according to their Order and Number and that direction and comfort is to be sought of others as well as of Peter and more then of the Pope 2. These Apostles considered according to their order 2. THe other two concerning their order and number shall be but named It s here declared that they said to Peter and to the rest but first to Peter Papists who protend their Pope in speciall manner to be Peters successor and thence to have a primacie and superiority over all Churches do here catch at the placing of a word and name to prove Peters authority over the rest of the Apostles They speak first to Peter as if because these Jewes do all turn themselves unto him therefore hee must needs be chief a leader and guide to all the rest Which they would gather also because Luke Acts 1.13 and in his Gospel and some of the other Evangelists naming all the Apostles together make mention of Peter and name him in the first place But what of this In other Scriptures we find James named before him Gal. 2.9 John also who was the beloved Disciple and at meat was next to Christ leaning on his bosome the very night he was betrayed whom Peter himself used as his spokesman unto Christ John 13.23 24 25. So the Disciples are named before Cephas by the Angel Mark. 16.7 But were they therefore superiour to Peter Our adversaries will deny that If the naming of him after others of them maketh not against his supremacy then the setting of his name before them maketh not for it for speciall reason In this place there was a speciall reason for it Peter it was who deepliest charged them and by conviction of them troubled their consciences he was the chief though not the only speaker and he was therefore first and chiefly spoken to and his advice and counsell asked Howsoever grant Peter were first in respect of order among them An Order may be granted but no Supremacy yet what is this to that primacy and superioritie that power and authority which Papists ascribe unto him above the rest as if he were any more or immediatly Christs Vicar then the rest No Christ gave none of them such authority over other but expresly forbade it in them saying But ye shall not be so We conclude then that the proud Pope's claim from Peter will afford him little power or lordly authority over his brethren And Peter here though first named is but one among the rest among many unto whom these also spake as well as to Peter For they said unto Peter and to the rest of the Apostles 3. Their number many Others as well as Peter 3. For number then those here sought unto were as well the other Apostles as Peter who as they must not be supposed to be dumb all that day and to stand as cyphers beside Peter seeing the holy Ghost in the gifts and power of it was promised to them all as well as to any one of them Acts 1.4 5. Luke 24.49 and did accordingly in the visible signs of it sit upon each of them yea and inwardly fill them all Acts 2.3 4. who all of them began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance so must they be thought equally and indifferently as to preach the same doctrine in the like convincing manner so to give the same saving counsell and direction to such as being alike convinced and pricked in heart sought the same severally at their hands Direction counsell and comfort sought and to be sought from others as wel as from Peter For its likely that some of this great multitude spake to Peter and some to the other Apostles whom they heard seeing it cannot be imagined that either all the twelve Apostles spake at once to the same hearers or that those three thousand which were added to the Church that day did or could all of them speak to Peter Howsoever their counsell and comfort is sought as well as Peters and was accordingly given by them at least implicitely in Peter their foreman who spake for the rest and in their names if they spake not for themselves seeing there is but one and the same rule and ground of true comfort and spirituall direction for the substance of it by which all both Apostles and Pastors of the Church must go to the end of the world For though it by occasion be said by Christ to Peter Matth. 16.19 I will give unto thee the keyes of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth as well as bind shall be loosed in heaven yet this was not spoken or meant to belong personally or only to Peter but to the rest and therefore the same mouth uttereth the same words to others as well as to Peter saying in the plural Matth. 18.18 Whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven And John 20.23 Whose soever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them Or from his pretended successor the Pope So that suppose the Pope were Peters Successor yet direction and comfort to our consciencs is not to be sought only from him or from any power derived from him as head and judge Others may and ought direct in matters of salvation who cannot quiet troubles either in the Church or conscience in doubts and cases of Conscience as well as he or his Casuists He can no more quiet the trouble of conscience then troubles in the Church Else why is there not an uniformity of doctrine in the Romish Church and particularly why did he not determine the controversie between the Domicans and the Jesuits which yet troubles their Church and the Protestants also through the siding of the Arminians with the Jesuits when he was sought

occasionally And that it may further appear that Gods power goes along with the Word preached and heard wee will briefly shew this first In the persons who preach and hear secondly in the work of the Ministry it self and in the order thereof The power of which is further shewed 1 In the persons of Preachers who by the power of God are 1. Called 1. There is a power goes along in the very calling and sending of Ministers their calling and abilities are from Gods power When Christ called Peter and Andrew James and John from their fishing trade Matth. 4.18 19 20 21 22. was there not a secret power drawing them to leave both ship and father Zebedee and to follow him but especially in calling Matthew from that gainfull trade the receit of custome Matth. 9.9 who forth with arose and followed him so in calling of Paul to be an Apostle and after when the holy Ghost said Separate me Barnabas and Saul c. Acts 13.2 Men may not arise from their ordinary callings and thrust themselves into the ministery unlesse God more immediately and extraordinarily do call them as Christ did these named where to his authority he adds inward power to obey Men may not then thrust in themselves into the Ministery as of themselves that power and authority belongs to God and Christ to call them 2. Inabled with gifts 2. Men even the best are of themselves insufficient to these things and unable to discharge such a weighty duty what through bodily what especially through spirituall defects and inabilities but yet God enables such as he calleth and makes them able Ministers 2 Cor. 3.5 6. Vse c. who therefore are taught not to trust to their own gifts studies and endeavours men so doing fail most of all as might by instances be shewed 3. Made willing and encouraged 3. Men often are unwilling by reason of the greatnesse and danger of the task to undergo or undertake such a great difficult and hazardous work as we see in a like work how unwilling upon this ground of inability Moses was to obey Gods call but see Exod. 3.11 12. and 4.10 11 12. Jeremy was foretold of such things but strengthened and encouraged against them see Jer. 1.6 7 8 9 19. And when he was by discouragements ready to give over Gods spirit quickned and set him to his work again Jer. 20.2 From this power it is that godly Ministers do so constantly holdout and still preach for all their discouragements and that they dare oppose and reprove even great ones for their sins as John did Herod who if either they resist the word or hate and persecute their reprovers for their faithfullnesse they so doing do resist the power and spirit of God in them and the ordinance of God There is a wisedom and spirit by which these speak which the ungodly though learned otherwise are not able to resist Acts 6.10 In a word when Christ sent his Apostles to preach to the Gentiles saying go teach all nations and it is premised Mat. 28.18 19 All power is given unto me in Heaven and in Earth which was spoken for their encouragement who had a mighty work in hand the Conquest of nations to Christ and were to meet with the wisdom and power of the world to withstand them 20. This promise is extended to us even unto the end of the world 2 For hearers 2. Of hearers whose 1 Hearing or willingnesse to hear is a work of power first It is a work of power that men come to hear being called It is God that humbles them and gives them an heart to do his will in obeying even the commandment of godly Magistrates therein as 2 Chron. 30.11 12. That some being called by the bell or otherwise come to church to hear Gods word especially as Gods word and as in obedience to him with desire of profit as verse 8. when others having the same call refuse go to cards drinking walking abroad or to a Masse in a word refuse to come It is not from any power of mans will but from the spirit of God moving the heart of the one effectually and leaving the other to their own hardnesse who as Popish and profane Recusants now being by Moses the godly Magistrate called on refuse obstinately saying we will not come up which Numb 16.12 Vse by the way 1 shews The justness of Gods judgements on all such Recusants being given over to their hearts lusts and 2 teacheth all such to acknowledge his power and mercy to them whose hearts tell them they come to the hearing of his word in obedience and with desire to profit thereby 2 When men thus lend their presence 2. So their attending yet it is God onely who by his Spirit opens their hearts 1 to attend as he did Lydia's Acts 16.14 So that it is a signe when men do not attend to the word which they hear that corruption and Satan is strong 2Vnderstanding of the word 2 To understand the Scriptures which otherwise they could not though delivered to them by the mouth of Christ himself Those to whom he expounded in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself stood in need that he should also by his power open their understandings that they might understand the Scriptures Vse See Luke 24.27 with 45. So that men must not so much trust to their own piercing wits and understandings in their giving the sense of the Scripture or expounding the mysteries of Religion especially those deep points of Predestination and Election 2 This power is shewed in the effect of the Ministery 2. And so we come to see Gods power in and by the Ministery who by his Spirit goes on with his own work and makes it powerfull to conversion as 1 Cor. 3.5 6 7. 2 Cor. 3.3 whosoever be the Planter yet it is God who by his Spirit gives the blessing and increase Whatsoever be the pen yet it is God who by his Spirit writes with it It is Gods ordination yea and power by which hearing faith and obedience cometh Rom. 1.16 10.17 All which should teach us 1 to magnifie the ministry of the word even in the mouth of weake man if otherwise faithfull as Gods power to salvation And 2 to see and try our selves whether it be so powerfull in us or yet have such a powerfull and saving worke in us as it hath in many others SECT 3. The order of the work of Conversion and first of the Law 2. The order of Conversion in regard of the work it self The popish order disallowed ANd thus we come more particularly and neerer to the work it self and to shew in what order God by his word doth work conversion and beget faith in us Schoolmen and Papists make three degrees of penance or of repentence 1 Compunction 2 Confession 3 Satisfaction the first is of the Heart the second is of the Mouth the third

they heard this Where is first the Act of hearing VVhere 1 The Act of hearing which implyeth preaching Rom. 10.14 15. Secondly The Object what they heard First Hearing implyeth teaching and preaching as here Peter preacheth and they hear and how shall men hear without a Preacher saith Paul and how shall they preach except they be sent first of God So that we have here to note Note 1. The power and efficacy of Gods VVord First the power and efficacie of the Word of God preached Secondly the profit and good fruit of hearing it aright Peter speaking onely in the outward eare they that heard are pricked in the heart and by further hearing are fully converted 1. The word of God is a powerfull word because soundly taught and wisely applyed as here we see where not onely for number three thousand but for quality scoffers mockers yea persecuters were converted by it so the like afterwards and in some measure to the end of the world No word of man no not in the mouth of the most eloquent Oratour can worke such effect as this doth In changing the effections and verting soules Acts 26.18 this hath a power on the soule not onely to move the affections but to change them to renew them to convert them and turn the soule to God from death to life from darknesse to light by opening of the eyes yea from the power even of hell Psalm 19.7 of the very Devill himselfe of Satan unto God The law of God converts soules and changeth stones into bread yea flesh base metall into pure gold beyond all Chymicall transmutation turning beasts into men yea beasts into men in which regard the Church differs from the Arke of Noah a type of it in other things for there the beasts that entred into the Arke received no chainge nor alteration but if they went in uncleane wilde and savage they also came out uncleane wilde and savage but in the Church of God where Gods word is powerfully taught it is not so with every one we come in unclean but go out clean we come in wilde we go out tame we come in wolves lions vultures we goe out lambs deere and doves we come in beasts and go out men yea new men regenerate as one well noteth Here it might be shewed how that by the power of one text only some hath been converted Iun. in vita as Junius reclaimed from Atheisme by casting his eye on Job 1.1 Saint Austin See Dr. Featlyes sermons on this text by taking up the Bible and reading the first place he lighted on which was Rom. 13.13.14 not in gluttony and drunkennesse not in chambering and wontonnesse c. was fully converted from his wantonnesse yea his friend Alypius desiring to peruse that place and reading the next words Rom. 14.1 Him that is weake in the faith receive you besought Saint Austin to strengthen him in the faith and he became a Convert also And I beleeve if every one would tell their experiences in this kind and how the word either at first or since in their anguish distresse temptations hath strengthened comforted and upheld them we should ●eed no other proof of this truth But whence hath the word this power Not from it selfe 2 VVhence hath it this efficacy from God and his spirit Psal 149.6 7 8 9. but from the Author which is God who when and where he pleaseth maketh it powerfull and effectuall by his spirit accompanying the same It is a two edged sword and cuts both wayes as God shall please to weild and use it either to wound or prick savingly like the Surgeons lancing-knife or to wound to death like the sword of an Enemy but we speake especially of the former work of it whereby it shewes it self quick and powerfull Heb. 4.12 whose instrument it is sharper then a two edged sword piercing even to the deviding asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow being a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart And so it is called the power of God to salvanion to every one that beleeveth Rom. 1.16 that is Gods powerfull instrument by which he worketh faith in men and converts their souls Now as the instrument hath no power of or from it self but onely a fitnesse thus or so to be used and workes in and by the power of the chief workman working in the power of him the principall Agent as the steele with which the Load-stone is capped so it is here The sword cuts not without a hand to weild it and then it cuts according to the power strength and will lesse or more of him that useth it so the word or words of the Preachers being quantity have no efficacy of themselves or considered as a sound or beating and dividing of the ayre but as it is an instrument of God appointed and sanctified to produce such great effects so that the power is from Gods Ordinance and not from the word of the Preachers who by the sounding of rams hornes made the walls of Jericho fall down ●nd by vertue of ●is ordinance as did the rammes horns of old Moses rod in dividing the sea which sounding was rather a signe at which then any cause by which the walls fell even as Moses his rod by which he smote the Sea had not that power in it selfe but by vertue of Gods appointment Moses smote with it because God had so commanded but God did the worke And though the Word preached work after another manner yet the worke done by it whether it be conversion comfort pricking melting bruising c. is from the effectuall power of God and of his Spirit who doth the deed 1 Cor. 3.6 so that Paul may plant Apollos may water but it is God that gives the increase and so the Word is compared to a sword and hammer which bruiseth Jer. 23.29 Isa 55.10 Acts 2.1 3. to a nayle which pierceth and to fire which melts and mollifieth to a mighty winde and thunder which shakes the heart of the stoutest Thus here Gods Spirit being like water both for abundance and strength poured out in the signes of a rushing mighty wind and of fire makes the word of Peter and others thus powerful the power of which spirit shewed it selfe not onely in the tongues of the Preachers but in the hearts of the hearers so afterwards the Apostles being armed with the promise of this power Mat. 28.18 19 20. are sent out to all Nations to convert them which thing they also did but who a few men of no account of no learning some of them of no authority or state whom Kings of the earth whom with these chains comming out from their mouth as is fabled of Hercules Celticus they did binde and bring into subjection under Christ Bodin de rep lib. 4. cap. 7. So wise Philosophers and the learned the proud and refractory but by what meas and

long inwardly groane under the burthen of it till they feel it as fire hid and smothered within them or their consciences as a close-stopt burning oven whereby at length they are forced through Gods goodness to them to give vent to the fire to seek ease to their consciences by acknowledgement of their sin to God and also to men as the case may require which they might much sooner have attained unto if they had sooner sought to or made use of the remedy This was Davids case Psal 32.3 4.5 This may teach such when with these converts here they are inwardly smitten and pricked in their heart to take heed of bleeding inwardly which is ever dangerous It s dangerous to keep the divels counsel let them rather without denying or concealing any longer their sins seek after the meanes of helpe and cure And if they have any doubts or temptations within themselves let them be sure not long to conceal or smother the same or to bleed inwardly This were to keep the Divels counsel which hath had in some very fearfull and dismall effects whereas the making known of such doubts and inward close temptations upon suggestions of Satan hath both defeated him and freed them of their anguish and many desperate feares The longer such things are concealed the longer at the best are the patients held in torture and the more doubtfull if not desperate the cure will prove 2. Hearers once made to tremble and troubled by the word must take and make use of the season 2. A more generall Use is for hearers whose consciences doubtless are often touched so that whilest with Felix they hear discourses of righteousnesse temperance and judgement to come their guilty consciences make them to tremble and do inwardly prick smite wound and sting them Now what should they do in this case Shall they with Felix shuffle off the businesse this great and weighty work till they have a convenient season God forbid so did Felix indeed but that season never came yet so that his trembling proved to him but a summoner to hell and a harbinger to Gods judgement as the like trembling neglected will prove now to others who make no better use of it then he did Oh no the only season is now when God by his word faithfully taught and brought home to the soul doth begin to trouble the conscience For as when the Angel Joh. 5.4 went down at a certain season into the pool of Bethesda and troubled the water whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had So the season would be watched and presently taken when the Angel or messenger and minister of God by the word smites wounds and troubles the conscience to procrastinate or put all off to another season till sickness dispatch of other business old age or time of death is desperately to neglect a mans self and soul If then thou wilt follow wholsome advice Wholsome advice which is presently to get the sting and thorn removed so soon as thou findest thy conscience struck by the word and thy heart pierced so soon after hearing retire thy self into thy closet withdraw thy self from vain company examine wel thy conscience help to drive and strike home these nails to the head defer not to step in presently for cure into these waters which are healing look up forthwith being thus stung to Christ figured by the brazen Serpent put it not off till some other time least thou die of the wound and stinging Be here in this case as the shot or wounded Hart which presently seeks to dittanie as his only remedie to cause the dart fall out If you have received into your bosome any such dart seek presently to get it pulled out least otherwise it be your death Learn of Paul who not only at his first conversion being struck and charged in conscience with his sin of persecuting of Christ in his members Acts 9.6 sought to Christ for direction but afterward having some sting prick and thorn left sticking in him 2 Cor. 12.7.8.9 deferred not but early and late sought to Christ by earnest prayer to have it plucked out and he received a gracious Answer of which he had comfort Yea learn of these here who when upon heating they were pricked in heart presently seek for direction and remedy and not so only but wisely also they seek to the true meanes of cure of their consciences and betake themselves to Peter and to the other Apostles seeking help ease and direction from them which is the third point to be considered CHAP. XXV SECT 1. Where and of whom to seek comfort to our troubled Consciences only of Gods faithfull Ministers And said unto Peter and to the rest of the Apostles Third Point The parties of whom they sought cure and direction Considered according to a threefold relation 3. THis is the third circumstance concerning the parties to whom they spake and of whom they sought help and cure Now these here are to be considered in a threefold relation 1. To God as his messengers or as the Apostles of Christ 2. To these converts and as the same that wounded them 3. To some of these again as being the same who formerly had beene neglected yea mocked and derided by them 1. To God and as his Apostles and Ministers Who are considered 3. wayes 1. These here sought unto are the Apostles of Christ Peter and the rest whom according to the Text we will consider First and chiefly according to the quality of their persons or nature of their office Secondly according to their Order here mentioned Thirdly Number 1. These Apostles here were properly the eleven with Matthias added unto them by lot in the room of Judas 1. According to their office who were Apostles Acts 1.16 who were immediatly chosen and called by Christ whilst he remained on earth Matth. 10.2 3 4 c. First specially to preach to the Jewes only or to the lost sheep of the house of Israel vers 5 6 7. to prepare them to receive Christ himselfe and his doctrine What is that Mat. 28.17 20 then after his resurrection and ascension to preach to the whole world and to plant Churches among the Gentiles being first commanded to wait at Jerusalem for the promise of the Father untill they should be endued with power from on High Acts 1.4 and Luke 24.49 Which accordingly the tenth day after his Ascension on this day of Pentecost they received whilest the Holy Ghost was in visible manner poured out upon them and they thus solemnly inaugurated ordained and declared to be the Apostles of Christ as it were then given from heaven by Christ unto the Church These were to be speciall witnesses of Christs Resurrection Ephes 4.7 11 Acts 1.22 and Ambassadors sent of him into the whole world there to plant Churches being immediatly inspired by the Holy Ghost both to

Minister who would yet as willingly heal as wound them come among them how are they ready to cry out with the men of Ekron 1 Sam. 5.10 They have brought about the Ark of the God of Israel to us to slay us and our people and with those of Thessalonica when Paul and Silas came and preached there These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also Acts 17.6 But if men were so sensible of their sin and misery as these now were made by the word they would not put or banish them from themselves so judging and causing God to judge them unworthy of eternall life but rather in their distresse of conscience and in the sorrow of their hearts would cling close about them and not let them go till they had got some word of comfort from them Vse 3 3 See hence a main difference between the elect and reprobate both may have aking and quaking consciences Difference in trouble of soul between the sound and unsound The one seek to God but the elect fly to God and seek help from such as God hath given as Directours Instructours and Comforters to them as David who if he sought it not yet being convinced by Nathan accepted the reproof and his heart condemning him confessed his sin and received comfort in the assurance of pardon from him so King Hezekiah sought to Isaiah King Josah to Huldah and these here to the Apostles Others in their trouble fly from God the other fly from him to comfortlesse means and seek their comfort from comfortless means from miserable comforters as Cain in despair flying from God seeks to secure himself by building of a City Others seek to end their troubles in and by an halter and by making away themselves c. The elect are never pricked without good fruit others are worse by it the one come to the word and dispensers of it sorrowfull but go away comforted the other come jocund and merry but go away sorrowfull the one willingly submit to the convictions of the word and love their reprovers so much the more the other unwillingly with much murmuring and repining or with a mad resistance and reluctance But of this a touch not long since SECT 4. Directions to be followed which the Apostles do give Vse 4 4 BEing troubled let us howsoever follow such Directions as the holy Apostles in such case do give In doubts and troubles of conscience to follow such directions as the Apostles here and elsewhere give as Peter here ver 38. and Paul elsewhere Acts 16.31 And the Directions which wounded consciences should follow are these three To labour for and to make use of 1. Faith 2. Repentance 3. Baptism These are such Directions as if Christ himself and his holy Apostles Peter Paul and the rest were now to live amongst us in person here on earth and that we had them to consult withall face to face mouth to mouth and in trouble and touch of conscience to seek advice of them they would give us the same and none other which therefore are the more carefully to be followed and practised by us 1 By saith to fly to Christ and to beleeve so Paul directed the Jaylour 1. I shal begin with Faith which the Apostle Paul prescribed the Jaylour in like case as the onely thing to satisf●e his main doubt and desire and to resolve him in the greatest case of conscience of all when he came trembling and in consciousnesse of his sin against them and of Gods just displeasure testified by a great earth-quake which did shake the foundations of the prison and of his heart also said unto them Sirs What must I do to be saved The answer was presently given Beleeve on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house To which end they spake unto him the word of the Lord and to all that were in his house who accordingly were baptized he and his and rejoyced beleeving in God with all his house Acts 16.26 to 35. Acts 4.12 Christ Jesus as he onely is the Saviour and also Joy of his Church so onely faith in his blood quiets the distressed conscience and heals the wounded soul for Hee was wounded for our transgressions Christ was wounded for us he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes or bruise we are healed Isa 53.5 We know he was not onely whipped and so had his body torn but a crown of thorns was platted and put upon his head which was doubtlesse pierced therewith as we are sure his hands feet and side were on the cross which was nothing to that his sense of Gods d●●pleasure due to our sins which then lay upon him till by de●●● he appeased it When then by faith in his blood we come to be justified Faith in him orly brings peace then have we peace with God and with our own consciences through our Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 5.1 Now our justification is from sin and pardon of sin and from the guilt and condemnation of it And the blood of Christ by faith applyed and made ours purgeth us from all sin 1 John 1.7 As there is no remission without blood Heb. 9.22 so no blood expiatory but onely Christs v. 13.14 no other blood can asswage the pangs of a tormented conscience Therefore in the guilt of thy sin and sting of thy conscience no redresse or succour but by looking up through faith to Christ the true brasen Serpent Numb 21.9 John 3.14 In such case then look to Christ thy surety whom as our surety we must get to answer for us and by faith set him between thee and his Fathers wrath who hath already received into his bosome the javelin of Gods wrath in answering for thee as Jonathan did for David Oh what would one give what would he not give in the anguish of his soul and horrour of hell apprehended to finde one to stand between him and Gods wrath to bear that brunt for him that he and God may kindely and lovingly close Lo Christ hath done as much for thee and none but Christ make thou him thine by faith and then fly unto him not onely at thy first conversion but as often as thy conscience by sin is wounded seek to him by a renewed act of thy faith and lean on him not to bolster thee in presumption but to succour thee in true distresse of conscience and thou shalt finde rest unto thy soul He in effect saith the same to thee which he spake to his Disciples beginning to be sorrowfull and troubled to hear of his departure from them Let not your heart be troubled saith he ye beleeve in God beleeve also in me John 14.1 2 To Repent 2 Thus the holy Apostle Peter here answers the case of conscience put by these Converts I must still so call them for being onely thus pricked they were in fieri or in