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let every one of us so think, and so do, that we may not have conscience to condemn us; but let us live as those that expect to have conscience witness for them before the Lord, that with godly sincerity they have had their conversation in the world. But what multitudes are there in this world, that live as there were no conscience at all, neither God nor devil, neither heaven nor hell; ‘whose God is their belly, and whose end is destruction,’ as St. Paul saith, Phil. iii. 9. ‘Who declare their sin as Sodom, and hide it not. Wo unto them,’ saith the Lord, ‘they have rewarded evil to themselves, Isaiah iii. 6. This may be said of thousands of us, whose countenance testisy against them, their wanton carriages, painted faces, naked breasts, powdered locks, and other antic fashions, testify against thousands of both men and women, that they do little mind this great truth, that conscience can and will declare all their doings to God. Proud Hamans, drunken Nabals, whoring Jezebels, declare their sin as Sodom, and hide it not. And as for conscience, they turn him off. But, let these miserable wretches know this, as the Prophet saith, ‘Wo unto them, who have rewarded evil unto themselves.’ They have a long, black, bloody bill, for conscience to open against