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1
d
treatife
of
Confcience.
1
,11nfw.
begin
with
the
firfl
:
Suppofè
a
man
have peace
of
con-
fcience,
what
mull
he
do to
keep
and maintein
it
?
J
anger.
Fitt},
We
inua
labour
to prevent rroubles
of
confcience by
taking
heed
that we
do
nothing contrarie to
confcience.
We
muff
not
be
drawn
by friendfhip, or credit, or
t1-,e
love
of
any
lufl,to.do
that
which
confcience
torbiddeth.
Nothing
fhould
be
fo
dear
unto
us
as
the
peace
of
confc.ence
:
nothing
for
the
love
of
it
should make
us
do
aught
againft
our
confcience.
How
miferable are thole
comforts. delights,
fatiLa
ons
which
we
get
to
our
Pelves in
filch
courfës
as
our
own
hearts do
con-
donne
!
However
they
fferncomforts,
for
a
vvh3e,
and con
-
tentments
for
a
while;
a.nd
c.;eltht.
;
for
a
while,
yet
at
fall
it
will
appear that miferable
comforts are
they
all.
Nothing
that
we get
in
áriy evil
way will
chear
arid
comfort
us in
a
time of
need,
What
la
td
Francis
.Spira
at the
time
of
his
death, when
íèeir:g
his
wife
qt
chldren
about him,
and chinkmg
on the goods
and
efface
which
lie
had
.got for
them
by
denying
the
truth
which
he
h.ad
before mainteined agatnfl
the
Rom,th
errours,
be
cried
out
in the
horrour
of
his confcience,
How
trrr,&
1e
ss
the
fight of
theft into
me
!
However
before they had
been
comforts
to him,
yet
now
he
could not
endure the tight
of
them.
O
thought
he
J
recanted
for
jour
fake
;
J
yielded
re
fuperpron.
and
st
was
long
of
you
:
Therefore
I
e
alai
orred
now
cue
fige
of
them.
Wretci
ed
is
he that
allo
eth
himfelf
in
any courlè
which
his
conlc;cnsse
ftndeth
fault with. It
is
a
good
rut?
th
Apeflle
giveth,
He
ed is
he
that
condemneth
not
hisnfeif
In
that
which he
allosnetb
:
that
is,
Bien'
,s
he
that
hash
not
condemning
confcience,
that alloweth
not
himfel to
any eourfe
wherein
his confcience Both
condentne
him.
So
that
if
we
have
peace
of
confcience, and defire
to
maintein it, let
us neve
allow
our
(elves
in
any
courfe
that our
confcience
may
con
dentne
us
in.
That
is
the
fitfl anfwer.
Secondly,
if
we will
maintein our
peace,
we mull labour
co
have our hearts
grounded
in
the atlirrance
of
the love
of
God
alas,
it vvill
fail
elle, and leave
us
in
trouble
and
perplexitie
in
time
ofgreatefl need.
Obférve
how
the Apoflle joyneth
and