this time leave thee: "Can thine heart endure, or can thy hands be
strong in the day that I shall deal with thee, saith the Lord?" What
sayst thou? Wilt thou answer this question now; or wilt thou take
time to do it; or wilt thou be desperate and venture all? And let me
put this text in thine ear to keep it open, and so the Lord have
mercy upon thee: "Upon the wicked shall the Lord rain snares, fire,
and brimstone, and a horrible tempest; this shall be the portion of
their cup." Repent, sinners.

CONSCIENCE.

Conscience hath its place in the soul, where it is as a judge to
discern of things good or bad, and judge them accordingly. Romans 2:
14. This conscience is that in which is the law of nature, I Cor.
11: 14, which is able to teach the Gentiles that sin against the law
is sin against God.

Now this conscience, this nature itself, because it can control and
chide them for sin who give ear unto it--must it therefore be
idolized and made a god of? O wonderful! that men should make a God
and a Christ of their consciences because they can convince of sin.

Thou gayest, He that convinces of sins against the law, leads up to
the fulfilling of the law.. Friend, thy conscience convinces of sins
against the law: follow thy conscience, and it may lead thee under
the curse of the law, through its weakness; but it can never deliver
thee from the curse of the law by its power. For if righteousness
come by obedience to the law, or by thy conscience either, then
Christ is dead in vain. Gal. 2: 21.