treatife of CenfcienCe. 143 3. Becaufe conicience is Gods book. Now nocreature can adde to Gods book or diminifh from it. Ye may remember that dreadfull anathema at the end of Gods book ; Ifaalyman Rcvq-zz. Jhalladde to this boo, God (hall adds to hint the plagues that i 8319. ore written in this book, : And ifany manJhall diminrfh from this Goof`, God fsall take away his part ant of thebook, of life. Now conicience is alro Gods book ,N' herein his law is written., Nay, conicience is called God law : For is is fad, that when the Gentiles whichhave not the law do the things contained in Rom.:al... the law, they having sot the law are a law unto theinfelves that is, Their coiafcience is Gods law, unto them. Like as the Bible conteineth Gods law for us Chrif}ians, fo did their confci- cnces concein the law of God to them : yea, to us Chriftians much rather : For we are not to let Gods law be written one- ly in our Bibles, but we muff get it written in our confciences : our confciences are to be Gods books wherein his laws arc to bewritten. And therefore if it be a (inne to adde a new law in the materials book tobind men, then it mutt needs be a Panne for any creature to put a new law into conicience, which is the fpiriruall book of God. It is God onely who can wri,e laws in this book : his book is above all the laws in t1 e world; and none but God can put in and put out : and thereforenone but he can bind confcience. J fpeak fill of this abfolute and fupreme bond of conicience For Magiffrates may bind re- latively but not as they are their 1 ws, but by the law of Jod before made. This ye fee the neceffityof this truth, That Gods law is the abfolute atad fupremebond ofcvntcience. T. This ferveth to direa Minif#ere how to convince the confciences of their people. If Miuiiffers delire to worke upon their hearers, they muti fpeak to the confcience ; they mufc thew them Gods authority, chat it is Gods will . and Gods command. Tell confcience never fo much, that we fhould do thus or thus upon other grounds and inducements, it tarceth Gt not
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