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A treatise on comforting afflicted consciences - The Digital Puritan

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!iOf—;AFFLICTED CONSCIENCES. 97with fire and brimst<strong>on</strong>e (Rev. xxi, 8) but ; 1 am a liartherefore I shall have my part in that everlasting fierylake."And so of other sins : Covetousness, cruelty, drunkenness,lewdness, swearing, defrauding, temporizing, usury,filthiness, foolish talking, jesting ( Kphes. v, 4), revelling(Gal. V, 21), profaning the Lord's day, stran!;e apparel,(Zeph. i, 8), and innumerable sins more, which being allmisery and their dark estate : and afterward with a desire ofenlargement and light."" It is the care of those ministers which divide God'sword aright," say our great divines of Great Britain *, firstfitly and wisely to wound the c<strong>on</strong>sciences of their hearerswith the terrors of the law, and after to raise them by thepromise of the gospel,

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