oß2 I Pete . 2Y. I2 to your Confcience, to trial your exercife to have al- ways a good Confcience,voi f offence toward God,and toward men. We mind not to come hack again on this text, nor to touch on the refl of the doctrines at firfl pro - pofed from it ; what we have laid being principally, if riot only, defigned ; and molt, if not ati the other do- etrines, being one way or other reached in the profecution of thefe that we have at length fpoken to. The Lord gracioufly biefs what ye have heard. '§ 44.4+11i-4k 411- 4- S E R M O N T6 I Peter 3 z T. (Not the putting away of the ,Filth of the Flefh, but the .hvnJwer of a good Confcience towards God.) Onfcience is in itfe f a moff excellent gift of God gi . kj ven to men, having an excellent nature, being waited with many rare and choice ufes and advantages throughout their whole life ; and,when it is rightly ufed it is one of the fpecial friends that men can have on earth, and one of the great things that this gofpel, and the preaching of it, aiineth at, even to dire d and help them how to come at a good Confcience, and how to keep a good correfpondence with their Conference, fo as they may be comfortably allured that they indeed hays this good thing, which, is called a good Confcience ; yet; when Confcience is abufed, or not made right ufe of, it turneth to be one of the greatefl unfriends and enemies that men have in this world, nay in that world which h to coine, Having fpoken foinewhát to this before, and in the lafk obfervation that we drew from the former text, which was, That then ought to walk fo as not to offend their Confcience in any thing we Mall now fpeak fomewhat tO one dire &ion and help that is greatly, if not iiiainly, contributive and ufeful in order to the attaining of that "notable end, which is this, That men,viho aiiri to walk a`ti- fiverably to that r ule, fo as in nothing they offend their 1 I Corm
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