A Treatif ofConfcience. followed : it will f}tangfe it fell, and !mother it Pelf; you (hall hear no more of it. Elpecially takeheed you do not rejea con- fcience, nor offer violence to it : Ii you do, you will make it unfaithful and remit e ; and thenyou lofe the belt means under heaven of your good : Then deadneffe of fpirit fucceedeth, and hardneffe of heart taketh place, andyou depriveyour fouls of all poffibility of cure. As long as a tick man bath any poffi- bility ofcure he is {till under hope ; but ifever he lofe that,he is gone : Confcience is the poffibility of the foul to amendment; and therefore ifyou dull confcience, and make conicience re- miffe and unfaithful, you take the ready way to deprive y our felves of all poffibility of riling again. Confider thefe things, and have a care ofyour confctences. And thuswe havehandled the office of conicience about things to bedone and omitted, with its adjunns, affections and properties in that behalf. I come now to confider the office of Confcienceabout things already. done or omitted together with the affenions of confcience in the difcharge of that office. he Office ofC anfcieíace about things already doneor omitted. 1His path foure parts : a. To approve ; 2. To abfolve ; 3. To miflike ; 4. To condemne, according to the good or evil ofour anions or omi(fìons. The judgement is not only of the things, what they are ; but whither they tend,and what they will produce. L An approvingConfcience. Ptt' when that which is done is good, conicience approveth ; as `Paul faith, This is our rejoycing, the teflimony ofour confcience, 2-Cor. a . I 2. When he had lived uprightly and firi- cerely, his confcience approvedof it ; fo when he had great forrow and heavineffe for his brethren, his confcience approved of it ; my confience bearing me ritneffe, faith he. So at his latter end we may fee how his con- fcience approved the whole courfe of his life; I havefinifhed my courfes I have kept thefaith, &c. there is confciences ap- probation 155 Rom 6.1. z Tim. 4, 7. 8.
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