Zvi fo the Reader. confcienee-deffroying do &rine) who, expof}ulating with fome country -men living under him, for their not do- ing fomewhat required of them by him; for which non- performance, when they pleaded confcience,he,in a great huff, not without fome execration, replied, -- What ¡ave the like of you to do with a Confcience ? Which was plainly on the matter to fay with Hobbs, that they, and fuch as they, thould have no confcience, but what is du- ¿tile and governable by the confcience of lawful rulers and fuperiors, and that their commands and prohibi- tions make things jufl and unjuft Which is (faith Mr; Leigh in his body of divinity, page 3 78.) to make fubje5h be af r, and the magifirate God. idly, All private per - fons living in a kingdom or common- wealth, muff henceforth, according to thefe doctors, difown, and not in the leaft regard, in many things, and thofe not of little moment in religion, and the worthip of God, their own confciences as his deputies ; and have recourfe to the publick confcience, or the law of the land, as the uni- aerial depute fet over all the confciences of private per - fops living therein nay, to it, as taking God's own room, to make laws dire&ly, immediately, and of themfelves, obligatory of all their confciences, and to enjoin obedi- ence to them, as fo obliging them ; and muff, contrary to the fcripture, no more notice the accufings or ex- rulings of their own confciences, but thofe only of the publick confcience. idly, The indifpenfibly requifite qua- I, lification of the obedience of children to their parents, Eph. 6. v. i. viz. in the Lord, (whereby the apofile doth undeniably lay it on the children, to confider and judge, by their judgment of private difcretion, whe- ther the commands and injun&ions of their parents be agreeable to- the mind of the Lord, and fuch, in obedi- ence whereto, they may exile& the Lord's approbation) mull be catheered and abandoned ; for certainly there Beth no greater obligation on fubje &s to obey the com- mands of the fovereign power of the kingdom or corn, mon- wealth, than lieth on children to obey their pa- rents, who were fovereigns in families, before ever there were any kingdoms or common - wealths ,ere &ed ; himfeif everywhere aíferts. 4tbiy, That if the apofíles
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