f! treatfe ofConfcience, renewed confeiences. The endof the commandment is love, out of a pure heart and good confcience and faith unfeigned, 1.1-1111. 1. 5. See how the Apof}le compoundeth them to- aPure heart and agood confcience. We muff get our hearts purged and quickened, that they may be fenfible of the leaf} evil' ; and then our confciences will be good and be as a bridle to hold us from evill. A hard heart and a good confci- encecan never fiand together. 4. The fourth is the cleannefle ofconfcience by the wa(hing of Chrilis bloud. This is the main and the principal' of all : Yea indeed the bloodof Lhrift is the foie and onely caufe of a good conicience. J would not be ma-taken : Jnamed indeed ocher cattle's ; Knowledge, and Humbling, and a holy Fear, a Combat againft finite, and Tenderneffc : but J do not mean as though a good conicience were partly beholding to them and partly to Chrifls blood : For it is wholly and onely be- holding to Chrifts bloud for its goodneffe ; his bloud is the onely price of it : But my meaning is this , That though Chri(}s bloud be the one only caule of redemption. yet in the applicationof redemption the Lord Me' th all thole forenamed graces whole he applieth it to the coniience. Therefore this now J ad,le ; The waíhingof Chri(}s bloud, this is chiefly re- quired to tliegoodnef(èof conicience. We have twoplaces of Scripture to prove it : The one,.Heb. q, 14. 119137 much more (hall the blondc f r-hrijypurgeyour can(ciences from deadworks? it is that onelycan do it. The other text is i, Pet. ;. TT. The anfwer of agood confcience towards God by the refurreaien of Je_rids Chrtll.. Where the Apoflie firfigiveth thisti'le toa re- newed confcience, tobe called a good confcience Secondly, he nameth the eau le that inaketh it to be go:)d, the power of (shrifts refurreion : When the refurre6ion of Chri(} Jefus is powerfull upon us, then confcience becomethgood. c. The fifth is guierneffe. By nature nothing is fo fierce and viclent, if it be once awaked, as confcience is it is un- fpeakably furious. Thus is confcience by nature : and there- fore it can never be good untill we get it appealéd with the affurance l 133
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