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treatzf
e
of
Confcztnce,
Ilrmo
thus
much
(hall
fuffice
to
be
fpoken
of
other mens binding
of
conicience.
ti.
We
may
bind
our
own
conjciences.
II.
We
our
!elves
may
bind
our
own
conkieuces
:
And
that
is
by thofè vows
and
promifes
which
we make to
God of
any
thing
lawfull
and
in
our
power.
Thole vows
and promi-
fes
which we
make
unto
God
according
to
the
warrant
of
his
word
they do bind
our
conicience.
T
cey
arc
our
own
before
\N'e
have
made them
:
as
Ananias
and Saphira
their gift
was
their
own
before
they
vowed
it
to the Church :
While
it
re-
mained
was
it
not
thine
own
?
and
when
it
was
fold,
was
it
not
in
thine
own
power
?
Ads
S.
4. We
need
not
vow
unkffe
we
will
:
but
after
we
have vowed
our
vows
are
Gods
bonds, and
do bind,
the conrcience
to
the
perfbanance
of
them.
Nay,
we
lie
unto
God,
as the
text
faith
they did,
if
we
do
not
Rand
to
the
performance
of
them.
But
it
may be demanded,
What
vows
are
they
which
are un-
lawfull,
and do not bind
conicience
?
J
anfwer
?
i.
Such
as
we
make
of
things ìmpofìible and
beyond
our
power
:
Thele
are
unlawful!,
anddonot
bind
conicience,
2.
Such
as
.
we
make
of,
things
unlawfull
;
when we
vow
to
do
that
which
is
contrarie
to Gods
law
:
fuch as
Davids
I.sam.25.
was. when
he
vowed the deltruciion
of
Nabals
familie
: This
2
z.'
doth not
bind
conicience
:
nay, we
are
bound
in conicience
to break
it.
,
;.
Such
as
though they be
of
things
lawfull
and
poiible,
yet we
want
freedome
in
the
performance
of
them
:
as for a
wife or
a
feryant or
a
child
to make
a
vow, when
their
relation
to
f
ti.ch
as are
over
them
will
nor iiitfer
them
to
perform
it
:
:um.5o.3'
This
bindeth
not conkienee.
Nothing
bindeth
conicience
but
.
that
which
hath Gods
;leal
upon
it
:
but
this bath
not
Gods
teal
on
it
;
and
therefore'
it
Both
not
bind
conkience
:
indeed
it
Nndeth
us
in
conicience
to repent
of
it.
4.
Such
as
thong',
they
be
lowfull and
profitable,
and
in
our own freedome,
yet
if
there
fall
a_greater
confequence before
the