146 1 !1 treati¡e of Confcience. with them. But they de not trouble their thoughts to aim at Gods commandment in it. Let me tell you ; Conlcience will not count this obedience : For confcience feeleth no bond but Gods word : and if ye do not look at that, it is no obedience with confcience ; conlcience will never acquit you or abfblve you for this; it accounteth of this obedience as no obedience at all. See r. Cor. io. 25. and fo forward. There the Apof}le handling that queftion of confcience, at laid concludeth, Whe- therye eat or drin for whatfoeverye do,do 411 to theglorie ofGod, veri. 31. Let your hearts look at that, and aim at that ;' iu whatfoever ye do, hill look at Giod : all is loll with confci- ence ellè. Though ye eat never io foberly, and drink never fo moderately, pray never fo duly, conlcience counteth it all no- thing if ye do not look at God :. It is God onely and his word that Both bind it ; and it will never give a dilcharge except your hearts look at him. life 3. 3: This ferveth to confute our Antinomifts, fuch as fay the law of God bindeth not the confcience of the regenerate. 'Ye fee here that the law of God bindeth the conlcience : and therefore if the-regenerate have any confcience at all, ( as cer- tainly they have the heft conic' of all men) then it muff Fró what needs bind their confcience,. We confc e the coe fcience of the Chriftians regenerate is freed frommany chines by Chrií}. Firft, it is feed are freed. from the yoke and bondage of the ceremoniall law, Gal. 5. r. ,Standfaf in the libertie wherewith Chrifi bath made usfree, andbe not entangled with the yoke: o f bondage. Every mans confcience is freed from that yoke of the ceremaniall law, be- caufeit ended in-Chrif}. Secondly, the confcience ofthe regene- rate is freed from Peeking jufification by the deeds of the law. Indeed the firíl covenant was by the works of the law ; I e that doeth them [hall live is them : But the fecond covenant fpeaketh better things ; He that believethfhall befaved. It is true. ifGod had not lent his Sonne we mutt have fought jufti- fication by the works of the law : Though it were impoilible to.find it by realon ofour Graves, yet confcience was bound that way. But now that Chrif} Jefus'bath fealed up a new covenant
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