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d
treatie
of
Confcience.
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'
There
are
two
rules
:
the one
is
Gods
word,
which pointeth
out
both
eftates ;
and
the ocher
is
every
mans
confcience,which
is
privie to the frame
and flanding ofevery mans
own
heart,
and
'Which
of
thele
effaces his
eflate
is,
confcience
is
privie
to
this,
J
will
inflance
in
force
fòrts
of
men.
I..
The
Jews,
who con-
tented themfelves
with formality
:
they
facrificed;
they
offered,
they
pa
yd
their tithes, they
did
that which
Mofes
commanded
them
for
.the
letter of
it
:
now
ye
(hall
fee
their
confcience
could
tell
them that
they were
not
perfecî
nor upright
with
Gcd
:
All
their duties,
and
formalities, and gifts,
and
fàcri-
f
ces
could
soot
make
them
that
did
the
fervice
perfeEt,
a
per
-
te+Jng
to
the
confcience,
Heb.
9,
9.
Mark
;
Their
corjfciences
cot,lu
Jay
they
were
nor upright
for
all
this. As
they were not
upright,
fo
their
conscience
could tell them they
were
not
up-
right.
2.
Another
inflanee
we
have
in
the
Sçribes and
Pharifees
:
When
they
would
have condemned the
woman taken
in
adul-
tery,
their
own
conscience
was
privy
that
they were
tanners
themielves,John
i8.
9.
So also
it
is
Withachild
ofGod
:
His
conference
is
able to inform
him
that
he
is
a
child
of
God,
and
that
he Both
truly
ferve
God,
7tbar0
God, fáath
Paul,
whom
,7
ferve
'with
a
pure
coufcien(e.
His confcience
told
him.
he
was
a
true
fètvaant,ot
God,
and
that hewas
Gods
:
whofe
I
etm
tàith
he.
So
Davids
con!cience;
1
am
thine
;
_rave
nee
:
for
I
have
fought
thy Commandemeuts. So
the Church
;
illy
beloved
is
melee,
and
Ism
hie
.
Ye
fee
then
how
conscience
can inform
and
tell
us
what
efface
we
are
in,
whether we
be
godly
or
carnali,
vcl:ether
our cenverfation
be
in
heaven
or on earth,
whether
vve
be in
Chrifi
or
out
of
him.
The
fpirit
of
man
knoweth what
is
inliim.
It
is
eafìe
to
know
what
our
great
thoughts
of
heart
are
upon,
what
cur
greatefi
purhofcs and
projeffi
and
ftudies
be
;
whether about
God
or
the
world
:
the
fpirit
of
a
man
muff
needs
know
it.
And
therefore every
man
may draw out
from conscience a
true conclufion
how
it
is
with him. The rea-
Ions are
thefe:
1
t.
The
fra
is
taken
from
the
n
^tcire
of
confcience,
The
nature
of
conscience
is
kuch,
thot
it
:milt
needs be
able
to
knew
D
what