42 Rule 3 A 71reatife ofConfience. therly unity and concord, is to be taken, the balance hanging otherwifeeven ; and the arguments to urge both the one or the other feeming of like weight , then this muff be put into the Peale and refoïve the doubt. 3. It is lawful' to do fume things when yet our confcience doubteth of the lawfulneífe of them. For we mull confider there are two kinds of doubting : there is a fpecu'ative doubt- ing, and there is a prac`Iicall doubting. Speculative doubting is to doubt of the lawfulneffe of the thing it Pelfto be done : Pratìical doubting is to doubt of the law fulneffe of the doingof it. Now this latter is not alwayes a finne, but the other is : As for example; Ifa fervant be commanded ofhis mailer to attend on himon the Lords day ', he knoweth not what his bufineffe fhould be, andperhaps doubteth it is not of fich moment as to ' be doneon that day; yet he hath no reafon to deny his atten. dance : in this cafe though he doubt of the lawfulnefie of the thing done, yet he need not doubt of the doing of it,becaufe he knoweth not what the bulineffe is, and hath no reafon whereby he is able to juflifie his refufal. And fo much alto of a doubt- ing confcience. 4 A fcru- pnlous corfci- ence, IV. 4 fcrupulous Conscience. `fIe difference between a doubting confcience and a fcru- pulous confcience is this; Adoubtful confcience hangeth in fufpence, and doubteth which is the finne and which is law- full ; but a fcrupulous confcience inclineth to the lawfulnefle of the thing to be done, but yet not without many doubts and scruples, becaufeof fome difficulties which it hath heard of, and which it knoweth not h )w to anfwer or refolae.The rule which here we mutt go by is this, Whenwe encline to the lawfulneffe ofthe thing, we fhould labour to fuppreffe all difficulties and ambiguities wich caufe us to doubt. The ApoRle includeth this rule in that word fully; Let everyman be fully perfivaded inhis heart : Get all difficulties removed, all Rumblings, and flickings, andhoverings,and fcruples taken away. But how if that cannot be done ? how if we cannot get all fdruples removed ? If
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