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bribed,
budded,
nor
boafied.
"f
is
a
fore
matter
to
have
a
Confcience,
and never to
take
notice
of
it, nor
of
what
it
faith.
I
shall
now
only,
feeing
there are
force
good,
and
force evil
Confciences, as
they
are, or are
not
infor-
med,befeech
you
to
fludy
to have
a
well- informed
Confci.
-ence
;
efpecialiy fince,
where
it
is
well
informed,
it cannot
eafily
be
budded,
nor
faon prevailed with,
to
fuffer
things
to come
under debate
and
controverfy wherein
it
is
clear
:
A jufi
regard to, and
the
right
ufe-
making
of,
Confcience
would
notably promove
holinefs
;
and
nothing
readily doth
more
obfiruei
it,
than the
not
raking
heed.
to
Confcience,
and not laying
due
weight
on
what it
Pays.
Tho'
many of
you do
now
look
on
it
as
nothing,
or
a
thing
of
little
moment, yet
°ye
will find
it
to
be
a
greatly
momentaneous
thing. O that God,
who
bath
given
is
Confciences,
may
be
gracioufly pleafed to
give
the right
vfe
of them!
SERMON
IL
As
24.
16.
_
erei
n
do
I
exercife
m
y
feif,
to
have
always
a
Confcience
void
of
Ofence
toward
God,
and
toward
Alen.
F
we
take
a
view
of, and
look
through,
Chriîlians
and
profeffors
of
religion,
that
may
have
the
root
of
the
¡natter
in
them,
and may in
charity be
fuppofed to
be
effe&wally
called, there
will be found
as
great
a
gradu.
al
difference
amongfi
them,
as
amongfr men
of
any other
calling
whatfoever
;
And,
if
we
will
compare
them
ge-
nerally
with the apofile,
as
to
the
confiant vigorous dri-
ving
of
this
notable and
noble defign,
there
will be
found
great inequality,
and much
lamentable
unlikenefs
;
Herein
(faith he)
do
I
exercife
myfelf,
to
have
always
a
Confcience
void
of
offence
toward
God,
and
toward
men.
This
was
his
great
work, and it
is
indeed
a
fweet
work,
yea
a
short
rum
and compend
of
a
Chriflian's
life.
When
we
difcourfed
laft from
this text,and had
drawn
fotne
fpecial
dotrincs
from it
;
For
clearing the
words,
we