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&M2on
2.
and run
for
that;
but,
if
any obje&
of
charity
offer,
or
if
there
beany
Hazard
of
lofs
for Chrift
and
the
gofpel's
falce,
thefe will be filent
there
;
or,
if
confcience
mutter,
it
will not be much
regarded
in
what
it
Pays.
Now,
if
Confcience fwayed
the
man
here,
there
would
be an
im-
partial
refpe& had to
one
duty
as
well
as
to
another.
q..
Where
intereft,
credit,
inclination, or
afte
&ion push,
they
drive
not
only
violently
and
partially,
but irrationally,
and cannot
flay
nor endure
to reafon and
debate
things, or
to
be diffwaded from
the thing
towards which
there
is
an
inclination
and will,
neither
will
give
a
hearing
tá
what
may he faid
to the contrary
:
But Confcience,
in its
im-
pulfe,
is
rational and
fober,
goes
to
the word,
and
would
have matters calmly reafoned and
debated,
and
is
the
better
fatisfied
the better the
bufinefs
be
debated
and
cleared,
becaufe
it liketh
and loveth
rational
fervice,
Rom.
iz.
1.
and
therefore layeth
every
thing
to
the
rule,
and
readily
contefteth with
corruption,
with which
inclination
fideth.
5.
When credit,
intereft
and inclination in
their
impuifes are
thwarted,
they
ftorm,
they
vex
and
torture
the
man
;
but,
when
the
impufe
of
Confcience
is
thwarted,
it
hath
a
kindly
pricking
and
founding,
the
impulfe of
intereft or
inclination being
thwarted,
confufeth and put
-
teth
thorow
other
;(to 4peak fo)
and
being
but
a
carnal
fit
of
pailion,
maketh frothy, light,
and
diftemperedly
paffi-
.
onate
;
but,
if
the
impulfe
of
Confcience
be
thwarted,
it
weigheth
and flingeth
deeply.
6.
The
impufe
of
Confci-
ence affe
ð conftantly,
and
choppeth
evenly
:
Tho'
fometimes
in its
chopping it will
be more
quick
than
at
another
time, yet where
it
fwayeth,
it leaveth not
off,
but
continueth chopping
this
year and
the
next,
and
ac-
counteth
a
thing
evil
or
good
in
another
as
well
as
in a
man's
felf, and in
himfelf
as
well
as
in
another,
and at all
times
;
but
when
a man
is
pufhed
by
credit,
intereft,
inclination
or
afk
Lion, he
is
like
a
diftempered
man
in
a
fever,
whole
puffe
beateth not
evenly,
he
is
not
conftant
and equal,but
up or
down
;
as
the particular
that
afie
ð
him.
ítirreth
his
humour,
or
cometh near
him. As for
inflance,
a
man
waved
by his.intereft
will
difpute
for
the
government
of
filch
a
perfon this
year,
and
for
the
government of another the next
;
for
luck
an
intereft
this
year)