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tr'eat%fe
of
Con,f
fience.
this
of
the wicked
people
in
Corinth
:
St
Paul
faith
he
com-
mended
himself
and
the
Oofpel to
every mans
confcience
in
the
fight of
God
;
that
is,
He did
fo
preach, and
fo
live,
that
every
mans
confcience
could
not choofe
but
fay
Certainly
Paul
preacheth the
truth,
and
Paul liveth right,
and
we tittufl
live
as
he
fpeakketh
and doeth. He made
their coniciences.fäy
thus,
and
to
tell
theirs
they
were
not
right
if
they
did
not.
But
mark
what
followeth
:
Some did
not
ice
this
:
Why
?
The
god
of
this
world,
faith
he,
bath
blinded
their
eyes.
So
the god
of
this
world
blindeth the
eyes
of
the
wicked,
that what
their coulci-
ences Phew
them they
do not
fie it
nor
obferve
it.
So
for
Gods
people
;
Though- they
be
in
a
good
and
a
bleffed
of
}ate,
and
their confciences
can
fay
it,
yet Satan
oftentimes
hindereth them
that
they
do not
perceive their
own
comfort.
3. Men
do not
love confcience.
We
should
love
confcience
better
then
the
deareft friend
we
have under
heaven.
We
would
do much
for a friends fake
:
but
we
should
do
a
thou
-
fand
times
more
for confcience
fake
:
Obey
MagifIrates
for
confcience
fake
;
fufïer
disgrace,
reproches,
any thing,
for
con-
fcience
fake.
It
is
better
then
all
the friends in
the
world. But
the
wicked,
they
do not love
confcience
:
let
confcience fpeak,
they care
not to
heare.
They will
heare friends,
but they will
not
heare confcience.
Let
their lufis
call,
and their profits and
pleafures call
for
this and that thing,
they
heare
all
:
but
they
love
not
to
heare confcience.
Nay
,
many wicked
men are
angry
to
heare
talk
of
it.
When Paul
had made mention
of
confcience,
Ananias commanded
he
should
be fì»itten
:
Men
and brethren,
faith
Paul,
I
have
lived
in
all
good confcience be-
fore
God
twill
this
day.
Smite him
on
the
mouth,
faith
the
high
Prief}
Ananias. He
was angry
to
heare
him
talk
of
a
goo:i
confcience.
This
is
rnof}
certain
;
men
do
not love
confcience,
nor
te,
be curbed by confcience, nor informed
by
conícienc
:
They had
as
lieve
fee
the
devil
as
that
their
confciences
fhould
inform
them
of
their
efcates,
and
tell
them thus and thus
they
are, They
are
told rightly,
and yet
they
are
miflaken,
becaufe
they do not love to
heare confcienee
of
that theme,
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