tre4tije ofConjci nce, theywill with Saul fall down to heare the name of deaths and it "sana. no spirits be left in.chetn. Nay, if we want a good confcience 28.20 . when we lie on our death-beds, and del re good people to pray for us, Good, fir, I befeech you let me have the benefit of your prayers to God for me : Alas, ifthou haft not a good conícience, all the prayers under heaven will not help thee. See Heb. z 3. x8. Brethren, pray for us for we trufl wehave agood con- fcience. Mark.; The Apofllc telleth them they may pray for him with comfort, bcautc he had a good conícience. As ifhe had Laid, If we bad not agoodconfcience, it were in vainforyou topray far us. If ever God de rc the prayer, made for us, we mutt have a good cònícience Thofe that have not this good eonfcience Chill never enter into the kingdome of heaven : Though they had Mores, Daniel, and Job to pray for .then, yet all their prayers could not help them in the timeof their 139 The bond ofConfcienee. NOw wee muff look back unto the foure Propofitions which at the beginning J obferved in the text r am upon ; x. That there is in every man a Confcience. 2. That the light which directeth confcience is knowledge. 3. That the bond whichbindeth confcience is God; law. 4, That the office ofcon cience is to bear witncdë, to accufè or excuic. j have in the handling of there a little altered the method, and fpake ofthe two fr2ì and the lafl. Now followeth the third, and that is confciences$ond, which is Gods law : Which fhew the werke ofthe lawwritten in their hearts,&ç. It is onely the work ofGods law that it beareth witneífe of, that it accuíeth or excufeth for : The law ofGod is conkicaces bond. Never - theleffe we mull. heredidltnguifla : The bonds of confcience are either primary and fupreme, or fecondarie and relative. . The primarie and fupreme bond of confcience is onely Godsword and law :. that onely is the fupreme bondof con- F f 3 fcience : ripe bond ofconach ence is Gods law.
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