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firíi place;
but
that
which
we
are
now
fpeaking
to,
is
concerning taking
advice
from
Confcience,which,
i.
Doth
make the
Law
fpeak more fenfibly, lively and
aloud, than
before.
a.
It
maketh
it fpeak
more
plainly
;
for,
when
peoples reafon
will be
ready
to
fluffle by
a
word,
that
fame
word
coming
into,
and
taking
hold
of
the
Confci-
ence,
will become
more clear
and
convincing, and
it
maketh
the underftanding,
being
thereby
made
more
fingle,
to
take it
up better.
3.
It
maketh
the
man
more
impartial,
when
the word
cometh not to his
judgment
only
:
Neither
will he leave
the:word
with
his
light and
reafon fimply, nor
to
debate with
his
inclination
and
of
feetion
;
but
putteth
the
word and
his
Confcience
toge-
ther,
and
taketh the
meaning
of
it
fame
way
immediate-
ly
from his
Confcience
;
it
maketh
him
fingle
and
unbiaf-
fed
(as
I
fail
before
;)
and
fometimes
as
Confcience will
fpeak, when
the judgment hath little or nothing
to
fay,
fo
it
decideth
often
betwixt
the
oppofite reafonings
of
the
judgment for
both
fides.
4.
The
advice and
dictate
of
Confcience
is
much
more
powerful than that of the
Pimple
judgment
and reafon,and adhereth
better
and more
close
-
ly
than
affection
or inclination. Confcience being
more
direEtly God's
deputy,
and
in
a
more immediate
fubor-
dination to
him,it
flicked'
more
tenacioufly by
duty
;
and
it
being
as
a
check
to
our humours,
and
as
a
compafs
to
fleer
our
contle
by in all
things,we
are to
be
fwayed by
its
advice
;
hence force, who can almoll
debate,
nothing
in
reafon,yet will
not
dare
for
Confcience
to do
fttch
a
thing.
Some
neceffaiy
icef
ions
relating
to
pra:ice
arifè from
this
Ufe,
which
we
fhall fpeak
a
few
words to
;
As,
r.
If
any
other thing
betide Confcience
may
have
an
impulfe
to
duty
?
a.
If
other
things
may
have
an
impulfe to
duty
(whether
it be
credit,
interef,
inclination, will,
or
af-
fe
&ion) how
may
the impulfe
of
tilt-Se
be
difcerned and
differenced
from
the
impulfe
of
Confcience
?
3.
Whe-
ther
the dielates
of
Confcience
may
always
be
followed,
Being
its
impulfe
may be
wrong
?
4.
What
flaould
be.done
in
Inch
a
cafe,
and
how may
we
difference
what
is
right
?
5.
Whether
a man
and his
Confcience may be
friends
and
agree
together,
in
a
wrong
caufe
or
practice
?
For
the
firfl
,
ej/iov,
Whether
any
thing
betide
Con-
D
4
f`cietic.