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44.
Sermon
I.
commanded
and
preferibed
by him, and
in abflaining
from forbidden
fins
;
for,
if
there
were
not
fome awe
from
confcience,
what extravagancies
would
they
loofly
run
into,
who have no fear
of
God
and
of
his
word
?
And
thus
Confcience
bath
a
force
to
put
men
to
duty,
in
thefe refpeCts;
i.
It
difcovers
duty,
and holds
it
before
them.
When
the
Lord
hath commanded to
pray,
read
the feriptures,
to
keep
the Church,
and wait
upon
ordinances difpenfed
there;
to
keep
holy the
Sabbath
-day,
&c.
Confcience
puts
a
man in
mind
of
thefe
;
and,
when he negle
&s
any
one
of them,
will
fay to
him,
Thou
fhouldíf be
in
another
place,
or
about
other
work
:
So,
when
David's heart
fmote him,
it
helped
him
to
fee
his
duty.
2.
There
is
an obligation to
duty
laid
on by
Confcience,
fo
that the
man
cannot shift
it
;
he
cannot,
he
dare
not
fay,
Such
a
thing
is
not
my
duty;
for
Confcience
beareth it in, and layeth
it
on him
convin-
cingly.
3.
There
is
an efficacy
in
Confcience
to poufs
to
duty
;
from this comes
that
reftlefuefs and
difquiet that
is
often
in
men
and
women,
when
duty
is
omitted, that
they
can have no peace
till
it
be
gone about. 4.
Confci-
fnce
inviteth to
duty,
by
promifing
peace
upon
the
per-
ormance
of
it.
On the
other
hand,
Confcience
hath in-
fluence to
reffrain
from fin,
i.
By
difcoveripg fuch
and
fuch
a
thing
to be fin; and
though the
foul would not
-
wirhftanding
endeavour
to digeff
it,
yet
Confcience
makes
a challenge to
go
down with
at.
2.
By
threatning
the
firmer
when
its
warning
is
negle
&ed, and
not
taken
;
telliLg
him,
That
he
Shall
repent
it
one
day,
and
that
it
will
make
him
repent
it.
3.
By
taking
away
the
fweetnefs of
fin,
and
leaving
a
fling
in
place
of
it
;
as
when
Ahab
killed
Naboth,
it laid,
Haft
thou
killed,
and
a
fo
taken
poffefon
?
And
from this arifé challenges,
and
fears
of
the
execution
of
threatned
judgments, which
quite
mar
the
comfort
the
man expeCted in
the
enjoy
-
ment
of
fuch
and
fuch
a
thing
;
in all
which
it
keeps
a
majeffick and
ftately divine
way
becoming
God's
deputy,
and
bears
witnefs
for
him againft
the
firmer.
A
3d.
end
is,
To
abbreviate (as
it were)
God's
procefs
n
judging
men, to juftify and
clear him,
and to make
way
for
his
feutencet whatever
it
be.
i. It
cotduceth,as
it