..-...,. . , v_ _. . 11, 50 j t1 treatife of Confcáence, enc. Do ye not remember what: St. James faith now under the Gofpel ? heFence!' it yet on mans canfciefces : He that feid, Do not . commit adultery, laid alfo, Do not Dill. Now though thorn commit no adultery, yet ifthouk!ll, thou art he- emu. A tranfgrefirourofthe law. And though yee may call it a law of liberty in what 1cníè ye pleafè, yet hee tcl'cch you , ye had bell look to your words and deeds : fbr ye muff be j dg- ed by this law of liberty,: Sofpsakye andfodo as they that Jball be _,'stdged by the law of liberty. Ars. 3, Thirdly, f hat which 'being obferved doth caufe the confci- ence ofthe regenerate to excui and being tranfgrefled to ac- cule, that bindeth their confcience (For what elfè do you make binding ofconfcience but this ? ,) But the law of God being obfèn, ed cloth caufe the confcience to excule ;, being tranz- greffed, to accuiè ; in rn'ny things we lbw all faith the Apof}le. Mark Our conkiences, do accuiè us : as we do fo. 3 am aftnfull man, faith St. Peter, Luke S, 8. His confci- ence did accufë him ofIinne. Fcurthly. That which is the conditionof Godscovenant of graceb'ndeth theconfcience, yea of the regenerate : but (incere obedierce to Gods law is a condition of Gods covenant o` grace. See Lnnke i. 72. To remember his holy covenant and the oath that he fware that he wouldgive 'u,That being de- liveredout ofthe handsofourenemies wemightferirehim with outfear in holinefe and righteoufnc f fe before him allthe dares of our life. Mark; Sincere and univeriall obedience is acon- dition of the covenant of grace, not onely for a rnanifenation to out felves that we are truly ¡unified ; as chele upf{art Patti- tians do hold : but it is the condition of the covenant of grace. Every covenant bath its conditions annexed ; and therefore it is called the 'boot of the covenant Exod, 24.7. the words of the covenant , Exod. ;4. 28. the tablet of the covenant Deut. 9. i I. The reafon is this ; Becaufe when a covenant is made, the conditions areput into a book or a table and ex- -prefTed in words. Onelyhere iS the difference between the firff>t 1 covenant of works and the fecond covenant of grace : Both Lave Arg. 4.
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