------.. .! treatfe ofConfcience. in his ownbloud, confcience is freed from that former : Rom.3. 28. Therefore we conclude that a man is jufifled by faith without the deeds of the law. For though juttifying faith never be without the fincere doing ofthe law, yet the deeds ofthe law have no influence into jut#ification : Conf4ience is freed from fèeking juflificatton thereby. Thirdly, the confcience of the regenerate is freed from the rigour of the law. They are bound in confcience to ufe the law as a ruleoftheir life, and in (inceritie to obey is ; but are not bound by the gospel to the rigour of it : that they are freed from and fb they are not under the law but undergrace. Jgrant that all cárnall people, who are yet out of Cimt., doall he under the rigour of the law : and as long as they fubmit not to Jefus Chrift, nor get into him, they are bound in confcience to keep it, though they cannot : "They cannot finne in one tittle, but confcience will condemne them before God. They (hall be condemned for every vain thought, for every idle word, for every the leafl finne, for every the leaf+ lull, for any the leaf+ omiffìon ofgood. They lie under the ri- gour of the law, and they are bound in confcience to keep it, and they (hall be countable for every tranigreffion, becaufe they are under the law. But the conicienc;, of the regenerate is free from this rigour, becaufe they are under grace, and therefore they aredeliveredfrom the law ': The Lord bath delivered them by the body of Chrift; and therefore they are not bound by the gofpel to all that obedience that the law in rigour requireth. Fourthly, the confcience of the regenerate is freed from the ctttfeof the morali law. For though the law Both condemne, yet their confcience needeth not fear it becaufe they are in Chriff : There is no condemnation to thole that aNe in ('hrig 3efus, which walk,not after the fie112 but after the fpirit. Indeed thofe that are not regenerate, not ingraf ed into Chrift, they are ílill in toe mouth of the gunshot : the law loth condemne them, and they have no filcher, and their confcience is bound by it ; and they !hall find one day that by it their confcience will conderne them to hell. It may be now for the prefenc their confcience is quiet, ar,d they choke it, and fo it letteth Cg 3 them Rom 6.14, Rom 7,6, Row Sz.t
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