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treatife
o,
f
Confcience,
'cie
myth
17
tribute though
hee
needed
not to
have done
it
:
The children,
'i
í
ith he,
are free
;
ncvertheleffe, left
he
lhould
offend
che
Ma-
giffiratc, he did
pay it. J
will put
an
example
of
another
na-
ture; In
a
private
wrong, though
We4
are
not
exprefly bound
to
it, yet
rather
then
fcarzdaloufly
to contend,
confcience cloth
bind
us
to yceld.
Needed
Abraham
to
have
condifcended
fo
farre
unto La-
as
to
let
him take
his
choice before
him
?
No
ra-
ther
then fcandal
of
Religion
íhould
arifè,
ye
may
reade
that
he
did it.
Thus
J
have
briefly
made
it
znanifeti~
how
farre the
commands
of
the
Magif; rate do not bind
confcience, and
how
farro
they
do.
Obje
Lions.
r_.
But
it
may
be objected
;
Confcience
bath
onely relation
to
God.
J
anfwer,
It istrue,
as
the
fupreme
and ablôlute binder
of
confcience
:
but-it
hath
a
relation
alto unto
men
in
the
fecond
place, inafhiuch
as
God
putteth
upon men
fùch
terms
as
con-
fcience
hath relation
to,
As
24. 16.
Herein 1
alwayes endea-
voured
my
fel
f,
to
have
Rlwayes
a
clear
conference
both
towards
God
and towards
men.
M
ark
;
Conlcience
nath
relation
cry
both
:
For though
it
have
its
main relation to
God
and
his
word,
yet
in
him
it
hath no relation
unto men.
2. Again
it
may
be replied
;
The Magi(Irares do
not under-
take,
nor
can
they, to
meddle
with
mens invilible 1pirits, for
they
are
not able
to
fee
whether the
fpirit of-man
be
obedient
er
no
:
and therefore
how
do
their
laws
bind
us
in
confcience.
The
M
agiti
rate onely
looketh
at the body
:
mens
thoughts
and
a#fe&ions and confciences
arc naked
onely to
God.
It
is
true, the
Magiflrate
doll
not
undertake but only to
bind
the
outward
man
:
nevertheleffe
the
confcience
of
the
fubjeei
feeleth
it
fell to
be
bound to
obedience under pain
of
(limit,g
ag
,infl
Gcd,
who
giveth
this
general! precept
.
Subno rt your
fe'ves
to
every ordinance
of
man
for
the
Lords
fake.
to
the
ring
-&-c.
The
confcience feeleth
this, and
fo
it
cometh to
be
bound.
3.
Again it may
be replied
;
The
confcience
is
bound but
onely
Obj.t
Anfw.
Obi. 2.
Anfw.
Pet.
a.
II
3
Obj.
3.