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and
their
living
in
fuck peace and fifcurity,
as
if
they
had
not
a
Confcience
to
difquiet them,
many
men
and
women
know, and
are
as
little acquainted
with
challenges
and
conviftions,
and
Rand
in
as
little
awe
of
Confcience,
as
if
they had
none at all
:
Hence
we
ufe
to
fay,
That
fuch a
Man
has
not
a
Confcience,
becaufe,
tho
he have
it, he
regards
it not
;
and fuch
a
man
has
a
Confcience, becaufe
he maketh
ufe
of
it, and
liflèns
to
what
it
fays.
3.
That
people
feek more to
approve
themfelves
in
outward
and
feen
duties, than
in
inward and fecret
ones,
and
look
more after
mens
approbation than God's,
and lean
more
to, and
lay
more weight
on
outward
teftimonies
from
men, than
to
and on inward
ones
from
their
own
Corìfcia"
'
ence.
If
Confcience
were really believed
to
be, there
would be
as
great
awe
of
God,
and
as
great
lothnefs
to
.`
o
in
fecret,
as
before
many
witneffes.
But
ye
will
ob
jeet
and fay, Seeing
every
c
.
h
a
Confcience,
what
can be
the
reafon
that
many
care fo
little
for
Confcience
?
Anfaver
I,
What
is
the
reafon
that
Men
care
fo
little
for
God
?
If
they care
not
for the
Lord
and
Mafter,
tris
no
wonder they
care
fo
little
for
the
deputy
and fervant ;
shall
we
therefore think that there
is
not fuch
a
thing at
all
as
a
Confcience
in
fuch
?
No,by
no means;
it
will
provo
indeed,
that
'they flight
Confcienee,
but
not
that
they
want
a
Confcience.
a.
There
is
in many men
a
conten-
ding
with, and provoking
of
Confcience,
which,
in
God's
righteous
judgment,
maketh
a
filent Confcience
;
when
the
Lord
maketh
Confcienco
quick,
and
fets it on
to
re-
prove
and
check
for fin,
and men
do
not
liften
to its
checks and reproofs,
confcience ofFendeth,
and
will
not
reprove
:
Confcience being
God's
deputy, taketh
or-
ders
from
him, and
when
God will not vouchfafe.á
word
of
reproof
on
a
man,
neither
will
it
;
È',hraim
is joined
to
idols,
let him
alone,
faith the
Lord,
Hof
4.
17.
And,
from
Rom.
1.
zo,
zi.
we
may
fee
the
caufe
why
God'
giveth
up
the heathen
to
a
reprobate
mind,
to
do
things
that
are
not
convenient,
to
be
their
going
crois to
the
light
of
nature,and
their
natural
Confcience;
and not
only
doing things finful,
but
taking.
pleafure in them
that
did
them