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to the .ender. xXXiîi on with a challenging and difquieted Confcience; or tempts us to endeavour the biaffing and bribing (as it were) of our own Confcience, towards a fort of jufli_ fy us in what we have done ; or if neither of there Mould be, (which feldom cometh to país) we are greatly in hazard to be very loth, relu&ant and shy to hear, and lay due weight upon the after animadverfions and cenfutes of our Confcience upon thefe a&ings and meddlings, being over and by, and not now reverfible O how fate and fure might we be in all our a&ings, movings and meddlings; and with how much peace might we refle& on them, if we did always call and ad- mit God's teflimonies, and our own Confiences enlight- ned and informed by them, to be our advifers and counfellors ; the negle& whereof makes many rugged, diforderly, irregular and unpeaceable ffeps in our walk n That man only walks fizrely, that walks uprightly, in Tingle and unbiaffed compliance with the di&ates of the Spirit of God in the fcriptures, and of his own Confci ence conform thereunto ; moll certainly in the multitude of confultations with fuch counfellors there is fafety. Eleventhly, We would carefully take heed, that we do not baffle and proftitute Confcience either by fwearing at all by our Confcience, let be ordinarily and cufloma- rily, (too much incident to many profefl Chriflians, to the great (caudal of Chriflian religion) which be- fide the unneceffarinefs of it, at leafl in molt cafes, is never any in any cafe warrantable ; Confcience, though Gods deputy, being but a creature, as heaven, earth, and our heads are, Matth. 5. v. 34, 35, 36. (by which we ought not at all to (wear, being exprefly forbidden by the Lord to do fo) and fo never to be fworn by Swearing being a piece, and a very folemn piece of God's worship, and often put for the whole worship of God, in the fcriptures, where we are called to (wear by biro only, Deut. 6. v. 13. and 20. v. io. or where (wearing by it is much, or altogether, abflained from, and it may be fomewhat abhorred; yet we would not dare to debate vilify and (as I faid)to proftitute Confcience ordinarily,and on every light and trivial occafion,by Paying in Confcience) or on myCon'. C ctrnce s

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