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a
Sermon
2.
fn,
and
fin
to be
duty
;
as
it
was
with
thefe
of
whom
the Lord fpeaketh,
john
16. z The
time
cometh,
when
whofoever
killeth
you
will
think
that
he
Both God
fervice
Tho'
an
erring
Confcience be not
fo
properly
to
be
cal-
led
Confcience,
for it
rather
gives offence
than
edifies
;
vet
this
Confcience, fuch
as
it
is,
putteth
a
man
into
a
lirait,
that
he
can
neither do nor forbear
:
That
is,
it
necel
ari-
ly,
while
it
remains, involveth him
in
fin,
whether
he do
or
forbear
;
hence
it
is
faid
of
filch
a
Confcience,
ligat,
fed
non
obligat,
it bindeth up
the
man,
but
loth
not
oblige
:
For
the
man
that hath this erring
Confcience,
making
him
think, that
fuch
or
fuch
a
thing
is
a
neceffary
H:.
duty,
when
in
the
mean
Time
it
is
a
fin, in
following
.'
the
impulfe
of
his
Confcience, finneth
again{"
the
law
of
God
;
as
filppofe
it
be
in
perfecuting,
or
killing the
fervants
of
God, which
he
thinks
good fervice
:
Neither,
will the
error
of
his
Confcience excufe
him
here,
becaufe
he fhould
have
endeavoured
to
have
it
better
informed
for
thefe
that
fin
in the
law, "hall
be
judged
by
the
M1;
law:
And,
if
he
forbear
to do fuch
a
thing,
he finneth
a.
gainff
his
Confcience,
for,
he
fuppofing
it
to
be
God's
mind
which
it di&ateth,
and
his
Confcience being to
him
in
place
of
God,
he
is
guilty,
as
it
what
he
doth
were
done
dire
&ly and
immediately
again""
God;
for
to
him
it
was
fo,
and
he
thought
fo
;
and thus,
through
his own
culpable
acceffion,
it
layeth
a necefTity
of
finning
on
him,
whether
he
do
or
forbear
;
yet it
never ob.ligeth,
nor
can
oblige him
to
go
contrary
to
the
law
of
God
:
As
fup-
F
pofe
he
thinketh that
fuch
a
minifler, who
is
an honeff
and
faithful man, Mould
be
depofed
or
excommunicated,
í;
it
doth
not oblige
him to
perfecute
an
innocent
and
ho-
ï
nett
man
;
and
yet,
if
he
endeavour
it
not,
he finneth a-
gain"" his
Confcience,
in
countenancing
of
that perfon,
which
he
in
his
mifapgehenfion
judgeth
to
be
fin
:
This
may
feem
to
be
fomewhat
{"range
and
parodoxial
;
but
it
is
the
woful
effe
&, and
bitter
fruit
of
the
want
of light,
and
of
a
well- intormed
Confcience, and
it
floweth not
from the nature
of
the
word
of
God,
nor
from
the nature
of
Confcience,
but
from
our
own
Cor-
ruption,
making
no
ufe,
or
an
ill ufe
of the
word
of
God,
the
fuperior
of
the
Confcience
:
So
that there
is
bard..