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treat¿fe
Confczerzr
;
Fourthly,
If
we
would
maintein:our
peace,
then let
us
labour
to
be
confiant
in
obedience
to Jefus
Chri
ft. Whofoever
kecpeth
h
word, in
him
verily
is
the
word
of
Ged
per
fc
ed
;
and
here-
by
knew we
that
we
are
in
him,
I
Jo'
n
a.
S
.
Mark
;
Hereby
our
conic-
ience
tray
tell
us
that
we
are
right, and
(peak peace
to
us,
if
we
keep
his word.
II.
Queftion
;
How
the
peace
of
confcience
doth
depend
npon
ow-
care and
our
obedience.
The
reafon
why
J
railè
thi qucftion
is
this, Bccaufe
as
our
juftification
is
onely
in
C
hrift,
fo
our
pe )ce
is
onely
in
him
;
how
then
doth
the
peace
of
our
conference
depend on
o[edt-
ence
?
The
place
of
Scrip:ure
that
occa(ioñec., the
d_'i.bc is,
T
Pet.
3.
21
he
anrrver
r
f
agood
confsience
towards
:Jod
by
the
rerttrrei ionof
j6
fuss._Chrzfi..
it
is
'by
hr;ft;
how
dependeth
it then
one
our
obcdientié
?.
Anfv.
i
A.
good
conscience
doth not depend
upon
our
obedience
.as
the
piincip
;:ll
caule
of
it,
but
upon
j itification
which
v.
e
have
by
Chrift
if
we
be
in
him
:
R
om.
5
.
r
.
Being
jaegified
by
faith
we
-have
peace
with
God
throsagh
emr
Lord
Jefass
Chriji.
Ye
fee
then
that our
peace
is
grounded upon our
juflification
as
the principal( caufè
of
it.
If
we
fhoiald
leek for
peace from
our works and
obedience, alas, they
are
finfull and
defeikive
there
is
no
peace
to
be
found
inthem, Our
con
fe
-
ence
would
be
troubled at our
(Deft
duties,
at
our
v
e,,knefíe
in
prayer, our
frailties in
hearing; our
flips
in
every
holy
lèrvice
:
There
is
nothing we
do
but
our
confcience
might find
fault with
it,
and pick
a
hole
in
it;
and
therefore
we had
need
to
fie
'into
Chrif# for
true
peace.
No
wonder
theca
that
Papufts
have not
true.peace,
but
profeffedly
fay,
that
every
man
muff
doubt,
and
no
man
can.be lure
of
his
la.lvation.
Ttiev
mutt
needs
doubt
in-
deed"
who
tuft
to
their
own
works' which
can never bring
true peace.
The
confcience
mutt
ever be
quarrelling
and find-
in
of
fault,
and be
without
peace
;'lf'v'e
trua
to the
befl R'orks.
So
that
this
is
the
fira
anfwer,
ttite
peace
dependeth
upon
I
juftification by
fa*
itivixa:Chrift
as
the
p"riricipall c:aule.
Secondly,
We
anfwer,
That
òár
peace
depcndeth upon our
obedience