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.trea!if
`e
of
Confcience,
i
confider
and
be
ab
folistely re
filved
to
perform,
,to
be
of
a
i,e
'
with
the
Lord
God
of
hefts
:
rho
Lord
h.ith
no
pleofiers
in
fowls
Therefore
papal
thy good vows, mid be
humbled
for
thy
riß,
wows.
But
we
arc
fallen
into
badtintes,_
when
ti
uth
and
equity
is
perithcd
from
among
men;
:
Every
one
is
a
deceitful)
bow
yea, the
bcft
(alrnoff)
is
a
briar
:.Nothing
fo
common
as
vows
and
prornles;
but
few
make
confcience
of
performng, them.
Nay,
men
arc
card-die-0k' their grand vow
whim
they
haVe
made unto
God
in
their
Bapfiiinc.
O
this
is
a
very fearful]
tin'
Bapt
(mts
Yc
have all
mac
a._Vpyv
u.rto
4
;oa.
in
your
baptiimethat
ye
would
live otherwife
then ye
do,
and
ye
make
ra,o
con-lcience
to
keep
it. Baptifìne
is
a
very
weighty thing
:
If
there
were
nsa
o-
ther thing
to
bind you
to holincífe
and
obedience
.and
faith
but
onely the vow ye
entred
into
in
your 0aptilme,
did
ye
confider
what
a
vow
it
is,.it
would more
you
alone.
,It_is
faid
ofApol-
4fl3
I
S.
los,that
he
wt
s.
fervent
tuna
fpirit
though
he keep/
atstbiarg
km
the
25,
baptifins
of
John:
Apolloscortfidered
what
a
vow
he
had made
unto
God
in his
baptifme,
that, though
he
knew nothing
elfe,
it
made him
zealous
for
God.;
Baptiime
is
a
very
great binder
of
confcience
It
bindeth
a
man
to
believe; and
to
go
out.
of
him
félf attdto,fubmitto
JefusChrifl.'The
wicked
Pharrlies,
taw.
mattb.2
i-
this
to
be
true
:
l
f
wee.:
fha11
fay
tbat
Johns báptifete
wm
frotas
,
heaven
be
will
fef
?Why
did
y-r;aaor
thrs
believe
.i
Beloved,was
not your
bapcifme
from
heaven
?
Was
it
not
an ordinance
of
God
?
and
did
ye
not
!olemirs1y
then
tow
unto
Gott',;?
,thy
then
do
ye not believe
?
W_
tyçg
ye
ndtdëny
your
:
fel
-ves,
our
works, your wayes,
and
tale
up Chriflsicroffe
?
As
Ç
lrifl
faith
Mattá.r
i.
of
john
Baptif
t,
ç4mo
th
sth4t,ar
jirn
of
t;k
to
kirk
I
i
.
not
been
Agreater then
Johan
tbc:
psif
;
ib
may
J
lay
of
borçls
and
of
Vgv.'s
and
covet
ants;
ncAmorig
-,all
the
VOWS
.aud
,é,vvé
rants
thm
e,verfvvert
made
diet
.halo
not
!been
a
greater
.then
:
c
iis,ofBaptif
:'
A1-14
there'd
-befit
look
tátlfe
r
forming,ofwhat
ye
then vowed
:
If
:ye
do not
ye
aregrievóri#;-(
breakers offcovenant with
God
;
which
fnnc
will
Curtly
(+4
.11
3
againf{.you
for
evil.
It
is
molt,
certain,
that
F3aptilire`doth,
3
greatly bind
us
in confcience
to
ti
*1k
anfwerably to
it
in'aIl,
j
rig,htc-