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treat2e
ófConfctenee,
I
lit
obedience in this fort,
that we
can
have no
peace
except
we
be
given
to
obedience.
Thefe
meet
that
can
finne
and yet
be
at
peace,vv
cyc
never
juftified
in
their lives.
A
child
ofGod
when
he
finneth
;
as for
example,
if
he
fhould
be
tempted to
lie,
or
to
omit
a
good
dude, which
he
knoweth
he
is
bound to
per
-
form
#
yet
this
would
much
trouble
his
cottfcience
;
his
foul
would
be
afhamed,
his
heart perplexed,
he
would
not know
how to look
the Lord
in
the
face
;
,3
have
fonaeed:
what
(hall
fal
do
unto
thee,
O thou
preferver
of
men
?
When David
had
finned againfl
God,
I
am
troubled,
faith
he ;
and
I
go mourn
ing
all
dot day long.
And therefore
peace
of
confeience
Both
depend thus
tarre
on
obedience,
as
that
a
man
cannot
have peace
unlcfh
he be
obedient, and
take
heed
of
rinne,
and
labour
in
all
things
to
be
upright
before
God.
Now
if
you ask me, But
Dub,
how doth our Peace
depend
upon
our
obedience
?
J
anfwer,
It
Sol.
dependeth upon
obedience
as
the removing
caute
:
It
removeth
that which
would
hinder otir peace. Sinne
would
interrupt
our
peace
:
now
obedience removeth finne.
To
this
purpofe
the Apofl
le fpeaketh
i
.
Jokn
;
.
t
Q,
19.
My
little
children,
let
us not love
in word and
in tongue,
but
ix deed and
in
truth
:
For
hereby we
know
that
we
are of
the
truth,
and
(hall
afore
our
hearts
before
God
:
Hereby
we
(hall
aflúre our
confciences
that we
are in
him,
if we take
heed
of
hypocrite
:
If
we love
in
truth,
and
be
obedient
in
truth,
we
(hall
thereby
remove
all
our doubts
and
our
fears,
our troubles
and perplexities
of
con
tcrence.
So
that
peace
doth
depend on obedience
as
the removing
caufe
:
It
removeth
that
which otherwife
would
hinder peace.
This
is
the firfi. Again, our
peace
of
conrcience
dependeth
up-
on our obedience
as
the
witnefling caute
of
it.
Obedience
is
one
of
the
witnefh
s
of
true
peace
;
it
vvitnefleth
that
we
have
peace
with God.
T'bis
t
our reioycing,even the te/limony
of
our
con
t cer,t.
i
fcience,
that
in
jimplicitie
and
godly
f
nneritie
we
have had
our
converfation in
the world.
See tiere,
it
is
the
witnefling caute
of
it
:
Paul
had
peace
of
confcience
;
his confeietace
was able
to
make
him rejoyce
:
How
?
Becaule
it
gave teftimony
that
bis
converfation was
godly
and fimple and gracious.
Though
we
Cc
be