( ATreatife ofConfcaence. himfelf to the contrary. I confetïe, if confcience be importu- nate to the utmoft, as it is with Gods children , men cannot with any force put it by it will have no nay. Sometimes it is fo with the wicked in tome particular thing : but often confci- ence in them is importunate, and yet will Puffer it felt to he born down, Now to bear confcience down is a very highGnne, and exceedingly hardneth the heart : therefore take heed ofit. VI.An tsnfaithfull Confcience. fai,hfulln- hus I have handled a faithfull confcience. The fecond af- confcience feaion now followeth ; which is an Unfaithful confci. ence, I do not mean fuch an one as is overtaken withevil! (for the beft confciencebath his failings) but fuch a confcience as fo giveth in that it fuffereth a man to forfake God, and to ferve the Devil and his own lulls : This is an unfaithful confcience; `and italfo path threeproperties: r.It is a filent confcience. 2.It is thepcot:es a large confcience. 3. It is a remiffe confcience. t. It r. A filent confcience, that confcience which knoweth how filent, to judge, how to counfel, how to direst, yet isfilent, and faith nothing is an unfaithful confcience ; that knoweth what duties we owe to God and man, yet putteth us not upon them, nor is importunate for the performance of them ; and fo for Gnus, what weought not to do, telleth not of the evill , díffwadeth not from it, urgeth not arguments to caufe forbearance ; this is an unfaithful confcience. It is like to a ficepy careleffe coach- man, who giveth the horfes the rains, and letteth them runne whither they will : So this unfaithful confcience leaveth the rains on a mans neck, and letteth him run whither he will, into Mich- 7.3. any danger, any mifchief; that he may do evil with both hands. Do ye not thinkAhabs confcience was fall afleep,which let him fell himfelftoworkwickedneffe? and fo Manaffeh's confcience? I. It is 2. A large confcience ; which maketh confcience it may be large, of fome great duties but taketh liberty in other which it count - eth leffer.7hus Doeg's confcience would not Puffer him to break his vow, to depart on the Sabbath day: but yet it fuffred him to z K;ngs accnfe David. 7ehu's confcience made him zealous in Gods so, 29. caufe
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