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treatife
of
Con,
f'cZence,
I13
Thus
much (hall
fuffice for
anfwer to the
lècond
que
-`
Rion.
III.
Queflion
;
What
manrrer
of
obedience
it
is
that
peace
of
confcience depended)
upon
?
The reaton
of
this
queRion
is
this
;
Becaufe it
fhoull
feem
there
is
no
fuch obedience
in
this life as
any
peace
of
confcience
fhould
depend
ora.
`Doth
not
James
fay,
In
?many
things
we
firms
all
?
Dot
h
not our Saviour fay,Wbenye have
done
41 that
ye
can
fay,
We
are
unprofitable
fervants
?
If
our
confcience can
Ifll
fay
that
we
are
unprofitable,
and that
we do
finne
in
every
thing that
we
do,
yea
in
many
things,
in
all
the duties
we
go
about
;
if
our
consciences
can fay
thus,
How
can
any
peace
depend upon
obedience
?
What
obedience
do
you
mean that
peace
of
conlciencedependeth
upon?
J
anfwer,
r.
Abf>lute
perfeaion
in obedience is
not
re-
quired unto evangelical)
peace.
For
if
it
were,
no man could
have
peace
;
no not
Paul,
nor
Abraham,
nor
any
of
the
holieft
of
Gods
children
:
and therefore
nblòlute
perfe
&ion
is
not
re-
quired.
If
we
fay
we
have
not
finned,
we
mali
Chri
f
a
liar,
and
has
words
not
in us,
r.
John
r.
ro.
Our
confcience can
Rill
fay
we
have
finned
;
and
it
can
Rill fay
our
obedience
is
imperfe&
:
A halting leg
can never go
perfe6 ly.
A Jacob
is
called
he
that
halcedh
;
and
every
godly
foul
halteth
;
)'hough
he
do
not halt
between
two,
as
wicked people do,
yet
he
halteth
in
following
after
God.
What
purblind
eye can
lee
perfè&ly
?
or
thick
care
heare
perfetly
?
He
that
hath
thefè
imperfeaions
of
body
can
neither go
nor
fee
nor
heare
perfe6tly
;
So
the
befl
of
Gods
children have imperfe6tions
of
heart and
fprrrtand
mind
:
their faith
is
imperfe6i, therr love
is
imperfe&
;
and there-
fore
their obedience muff
needs be
imperfe&. But
abfblute
per
-
fe
&ion
is
not
required
to
true
peace
of
confcience
;
and there-
fore this
doth not
hinder
it.
Second.
Though
abfolute
perfeáion
be
not
required
to
peace,
yet
fuch
obedie,_ice
is
required
as may
be acceptable
to
God.
So
faith
theApoflee,
We
labour
that
whe-
ther
prefent
or
abfent
rote
may be
accepted
of
him.
Such obedi-
ence
we
muff
(hew
as
may
be
accepted
of
him,
or we cannot
Cc
a
have
z.
COT,
f.
9.