S a c r.XI. in Gods Statuten, andkeeping his pidgementr. 567 Secondly, Aconverted perfon cannot but keep the judgements orGd, and do them, a. becaufe Goddothexprefslyrejeílallhù a:arfbip, though performed neverfozealoufly andfervently, if *e do not alto the thingsof ?office and Equity : Shouldfl thou walk in the Statutesof God, the Ordinances of his Worfhip, and not keep his Judgements, God will not own thee, fer.y will ye tie, onofleal, andfr000r falfly, and come into my houfe, andfay, The Temple ofthe Lord, the Templeofthe Lord ? Seewith what indignation God reeds fuch hypocriteo, will youcome to myWorfbip, to my Templeandyet live in tholefins offraudand iajuflice? Oh then think God fpeaks tothee, if loch guile and falfhood may be fòund in thy life: Wilt thou cozen lye, deal folly, overreach others ? and yet pray, repe.,tfer- mons fpeak of God and Chrifl? Oh thou vain man , know , GA is not mocked. The Jews whowere more forward in outward Worfhip then others, theyprofered ten thouf nd Rams, and Rivers of Oyl, yea, the fife born of the womb ; But what faith the Prophet Micah, Cap.6.8 He bath ;9, 0d thee, 0 man, What is good, andWhat loth the Lordrequire of thre, but to do jug') ? 'Oh notable place 1 worthy all yourconfiderarions that profefs Religion in a drift manner: Its not parts, opinions; no, though that( had (t revelations, and the high admirable pointsof Religion, that will advance tree, unlefs thou do ju('ly alto ; and verfe a I. Shall l rount thine pure With the Wii%d balancer, and thebags of deceitful Weights: See, God accounts no fuchpure, -or to have purity, that nIe any fraud ordereitin their dealings. - Thirdly, e.4godly manmull needs Walk righteou fly, becauT fuck outwardälti- 3, ens betweenman and man, are *ells that iorkuponthe confcience or are matters 'Wherein the confcience is concerned as Well as in any thing rife : Confider what Paul faith, Herein I exercofe myfrlf, to kep agood confcience both towards God, and to_ wards man, Arc's 24.16. Hr rxercifeth himf-lf, that (bewail his diligence, his induftry, his fetting-of himfelf apart with all leis might to keep a good conici- ence, and then obfervea good confcience towards God ; for if + be never fo, juft andrighteous towardsman, yet if t donotalfo perform all that Worfhip, andallthole Dutiesthat immediately belong rohim, 1 have not a good con- fcience : And then towards man: feeconfcience is exercifed in things towards man as well as towards God. A man of confcience is feen as well in humane affairs, as inreligious ; he abhorreth that fpeech, ;ftticgnìd libre, licet, What is pleating to a mans defire,that is alto lawful : Confcience is not onely teen in mat- ters of Religionand matters ofworfhip,butalfo incivil and worldlymatters ;yea howmany cafes of confcience do learned men handle,-about the righteoufnefs and unrighteoufnefsof civil allions : De lure, cr7ujlitia, what exact difputes are there? do not then think, that Chrill bath purchafed any fuch freedom, as that thou needell not make confcience about civil things; its no matter for them, if thou keep the' Doftrineand Worfhip of Chrift: This is a finfuI de- lufion ; For the grace ofGod Whig5 bringeth f rlvatioi, bathappeared, teaching us to deny ungodly lulls, and to live righteoully and foberly r So then , not onely the thingsof God are matter ofconfcience, but the things ofman ; yea, the things of manwork more upon a natural confefence, becaufe they are difcerned by the natural principles ofreafon : Hence the fins ofunrighteou'nefs and injullice, do more trouble the confcience, ifonce awakened, then anyother fns: The pardon of them, Or the (erneof the pardon, is difficultly obtained ; and fuch linnetshave much ado to get comforts, becaufe they have finned again(' the plain and clear light of Nature; and therefore for filch fins that a natural con., fcience would condemn, a catalogue whereof the Apoftle giveth in R070,119, 3o.3 r. men have had more terrible woundsof confcience then forother,fins: It mull needs thenbe, that a convertedpeifonabounds in all righteoufnefs,be- caufe his confcience is tender, Its Anheart offlefb. Fourthly, Therefore they Walkrighteoufly, becaufe there rare fo many promife q: in Scripture made re righteoufnefs : That muff needs be a duty in an eminent manner
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