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46
Sermon
r.
when
men
condemn,
as
we
may
fee
in
P'
aul
here
;
when
Men
give
in
a
lible
and
accule,
it
will
difcharge,
as
.
lets
2.3.
z
.
Alen
and brethren,
I
have
lived
in
all
good
Con-
fcience
before
God
until
this day.
And,
when Confcience
bath abfolved, it maketh
cheerful.
as
2
Car.
I.
12.
our
°ejoicing
is
this,
the
to
fümony
of
our
Confcience,
&c.
And
3.
5obn
3.
20.
If
cur
heart
condemn
us
rot,
then have we
confidence
toward
God.
So
then,
we fee
Confcience
hath
thefe
three
great
ufes
and ends,
z.
To
keep
people
in
awe
of
God,
and
of
his
greatnefs, and
to keep
them
in
mind
that
they
muff
give
an
account to
him.
2.
To
hold
them
at
their duty,
and
they
Mould be
very
loth
to
con
-
tradi&
it.
3.
If
duty
be negle
&ed,
to
record
all
their
faults, and to accule and fentence them
therefore,
and
írèver
to
leave
purfuing
them
;
for
Confcience
will con
-
tinue
as
a
worm
in
hell
gnawing
for
ever
and
ever.
The
fry
ft
úfe
ferves to
hear
in
this
truth
on
you,
That
there
is
filth
a
Thing
as
Confcience.
The
moil
ignorant
and
profane and haughty
of
you
all, whither young or
old,
one
and
other of
you,
have
a
Co7,fcience,
that taketh
particular
notice
of
very
thing
in
ycur
walk,
that
recd.
Meth
all, that accufeth or
excufeth;
and
the
ye take
not
heed
to it now, ye
will
on
day be
made
to know
it
:
Take
it therefore
for
a
certain
truth,
that
ye have
filch
a
thing
within
you,
that
ÿe
have
a
knowledge
with
your knowledge,
even
a
Confcience
that
remembreth
when
ye
would
forget°
The
minding
of
this
is
ufeful,
1.
To
make people
calf
out with
fin
rather
than
with their
Confcience.
2.
To
make
warry that
they take not
liberty
in
fecret
to
fin.
3.
To
make them
take kindly
with reproofs
for
fin;
remember therefore that there
is
a
Confcience
in every
One
of you.
Ye
will
poflibly
think
it
needlefs
to preis
this,
and
I
with
it were
fo
but
we
may
íhortly point
at
thefe evidences, to prove,
that
may
On
the matter
think
they
have not
a
Confcience.
The
Firft
is,
That
they
take
fo
little
pains to
prevent
a
quarrel
from
there
Confcience. How many
omit, baulk
and
flep over
duty,
and go
on in
fin
?
which
they
dfuríl
not
do,
if
they
believed
that
they had
a
Confcience.
n
The
few
challenges
that
molt have
under
many
fins,'
and