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;Yrautz
n.
us,
or offomething deputed
in
us
byGod
to
keep
a
record
of
all
our carriage
and
particular
a&ions,and
fo
'tis looked
on
as
force way
different from
us
;
Hence
it
is
called
a
teflimony, the
teflimony
of
our Confcience
;
hence
alfo
a
man
will
appeal
to his
Confcience
:
And
it
Both,
when
in
any
rneafure
in
exercife, impartially
and
incorruptly
hear
wit-.
nefs
;
and
a man's
Confcience
will
fpeak
againfl:
him,
as
if
it
were
at all
no
part
of
him,
neither
can he command
it
fi-
lence.
However then
we call
ir,
It
is
a
power
deputed
in the
foul
of
man
by
God,ta1eing
orders
from
hirn,andfrorn
his
revea-
led
will
and
'wcrd,
and
accufing
or
excufing the
man as
be
reels
:
It
is
called,
Pray.
2o.
27.
The candle
of
the
Lord;
it
is
above man
in
its fentencing
and
accufing, and
will not
be commanded
by
him.
To
clear
it
yet
a
little
further,
there
are
in Confcience
thefe
three
things,
i.
There
is
the
laying
down
of
tome
ground,
fuch
as
the
law
or
the word
of
God,
by
which
it
puts
a
man
to
trial
;
which
is
that
we
call
the
major
or
firft propefition
of
the argument
:
As we may fee
in
5udas
when
his
cnfcience
wakened
;
it
lays
down
this
ground (which
is
done
by
light)
He that
is
guilty
of
in-
nocent blood, hath broken
the
law
of
God,
and
may
ex-
pe& horrible
wrath.
2.
There
is
an
affuming,
which
is
the
minor
or
fecond
propofition
of
the
argument, or
the
4ffumption,
if
the
man be
guilty,
of
'Tuck
and
fuch
fin
;
as
thus,
But
I
rudas
am
guilty
of
innocent biood,and
have
broken
the
command
of
God
(and
this
the
Confcience
by,
its
tel'hmony
conlrmeth.)
Then,
3.
It
draweth the
con-
clufnon,
and
fpeaks
forth
the
man's
lot,
and
gives
out
his
Doom, what
he
may
expe&
;
as
in
the
prefent inflance,
Thou
irdas
mayft
expect:
horrible wrath
from
God:
This
Confcience applies
and
lays
home
unto him.
Every
Con
-
feience
has
thefe
three
in
lets
or
more.
The
way
of
Con-
fcience its reafoning and
concluding,
is
different from
a
man's knowledge and
light;
for
a
man may
fee fin,
and
not
be'touched
with it
:
It
differs
Iikewife
from
the
me-
ivory,
for
a
man
may
remember
that
which
affeð him
not
:
It
differeth
from
felf
examination,
for
that,
if
it
be
Mere
examination, brings
a
man
only to
know
that
he
lies
Under
fuch
and
fuch
fins,fo
and
fo
ctrcumflantiated.
Tho'
it
make
ufe
of
all thefe
three
as its
inftrunients, yet
it
goes