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year, and
for
á
contrary
on
the
next
;
for
one
fort
of
government
in
Church
or
slate
as
betf
this
year,
and
for
another
as
belt the next
;
becaule
his
on
particular
in-
tereft
cometh in
to fide
with
it
;
and
fo
he
changeth his
principles according
to
his
intereff,
and disputes
for one
thing
to-
day,and
for the
contrary the next
:
Thus
his in..
tereft
forgethand frameth principles
to maintain
it
;
which
ari_evidence
that fach
mens
great
principle
is
their in-
'
teretf, and that they
are
not
fwayed from
a
native
prin-
ciple
of
Confluence,
elfe
they
would be
riore
evenly
and
confiant
:
Therefore
beware
to
take every
impulfe for
the
impufe
of
Confcience
;
many men wofully
abufe
Confciencc
by
their
pretentious
to
it,
as
if
force
weighty,
nay
force
extraordinary
bond were
on
their
Confcience,
when
as
in-
deed
inclination
or
atfeEtion
or
fume
other
fuck
thing
pufheth
them
on.
The
third
)iietion
is,
May
not
even Confcience
fome-
times
err
and
go.
wrong
?
May
it
not pufh
to
that
which
is
evil
and
nful
?
and
lhould it then
be
followed
?
Af.
Confcience
may
err,
or
go wrong two
ways,
i.
In
re-
fpe&
of
light, by thinking that
which
is
wrong
to
be
right.
z.
Zn
refpe&
of
praetice,
in
application
of
the
rule
:
And
therefore it
is
needful to
(peak
a
word
for
clearing
of
both
;
and
Firft,
in
the
general,
When
we
fay
that
men
fhould walk according
to
their
Confcience,
we
underftand it
of
a Confcience
well
informed,
and
in
the
exercife
of
duty,
as
knowing
its
mailer's will
and
doing
it;
for
a
wicked
man
may
have
a
good
Confciewce
in
refped
of
light,
to
tell him what
he
lhall
do, and
to
challenge
him
when
he
Both
wrong,
tho'
yet
he
will
not
obey
it
:
Therefore,
we
fay,
for
a
man
to have
a
good
Confcience,
is,
to have
a
well-informed
Confcience,
and
doing
duty
accordingly..
For
further
clearing of
this,
there
are
ten forts
of
Con
-
¡cienees
that
men
ought
not to be
guided
by.:
Whereof
Five
fall
in
the
major
or
fxrg propofition,
in
refpect
of
light
;
and
other
Frye
fall
in
the
minor,
or
fecund
propo-
fition, in
refpe&
of
pra
&ice
or
application.
The
Five
forts
that
fail in
the
major
propofition,
or
in
refpe& of
Light,
are
thef_
;
t.
An Erring
Confcience,
when
the
judgment
is
ins
nfor!ned, and
aecountctfn
duty
tb b
fsrr,