A Treatfe ofConfcience. wench not the Spirit ; fo quenchnot confcience. I have hitherto (hewed you that every man hath a confci- ence, and the reafons why God hath given us a confcience, the light that it aéeth by, the offices of it, and the affeCIions of it. Now from all thefe proceed to other adjuncts of confcience : I. Aquiet confcience : 2. An unquiet confcience. A quiet Confcience. Oncerning a quiet confcience three things are to be cor- udered: r. What a quiet confcience is; 2. How it differeth from that quiet confciencewhich is in the wicked ; 3. The ex- amination whether we have this quiet confcience or no, I. For the brit, What a quiet confcience is ; It is that which neither doth nor can accufe us, but giveth an honourable tefti- mony ofus in the courfe of onr lives and converfations ever unce we were regenerate(I put that in too : for, I, we do not begin to live till we be regenerate, and 2. we can never have a true quiet confcience till then.) Such a quiet confcience had goodObadiah; Ifeare theLordfrommyyouth, faith his confci- ence : This was a very honourable teftimony that his confci- encegave him. Such a quiet confcience had Enoch : Before his tranflation, he received this tell-imony,th4t hepleafed God.Haymo faith,this teltimony was the teitimony .of Scripture, Gen. 5.24. where it is Paid that he W lked with coda This is true ; but this is not all : The text faith not there was fuch a teftimony given ofhim, but he had it : and that before his tranflation; but that before his tranftation; but the teftimony of Mofes was after his tranflation : Therefore it was the teftimony of his confcience that bore witneffe within that he pleafed God. So that this is a quiet conic ience, which neither doth nor can accufe us, but giveth an honourable teftimony ofus in the wholecourfc of our life and converfation. Now to fuch a quiet confcience there be three things necefIary : r. Uprightneffe, 2. Purity, 3. Affu- rance of Gods love and favour. Fiat, Upriighnef e is whena man is obedient indeed. Many will 63 r Kings 18,0 z. Heb.ii.5. Dicente fcripturâ nut ille.
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