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stroke ; and then how can it be heard in the 

 noise and bustle of a clamorous world ? Had 

 your mighty conquerors, and your valiant cap- 

 tains, and your thriving popes, listened to this 

 inward charmer, their names had never swelled, 

 and looked big in the rolls of fame. 



COLASTERION. 



But let all sober Christians know, that this 

 shell of religion, though it may be of external 

 conducement, yet there is nothing that God's 

 pure and undeluded eye looks on with more 

 abhorrency. We may possibly deceive men, 

 but it is in vain to put ironies upon God. A 

 counterfeit religion shall find a real hell ; and 

 'tis pity that such a sacred thing should be 

 violenced, and made subservient to rebellious 

 irregular designs. 



As for such who have conspired with the 

 wrath of God in the stupefaction of their con- 

 sciences, though they may for a time struggle 

 with those inward checks, yet there will be a 

 day (if not in this life) when that witness, that 

 judge, that jury, will not be bribed. God hath 

 fixed it in the soul, as an internal register, as an 

 impartial diary, as the censor of the affections, 

 and pedagogue of the passions.* It does not 



"^ Origen, 

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