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3o
Concern.
tog
a
good
confcience
treatife
of
Confcience.
Of
a good
and
6ad
Conference.
E
have heard
concerning
the
witneffe-
bearing ofconicience
about our
eflates.
The
next thing to
be
fpoken
of
is
that
vvel-
knovrn
dillimaion
of
a
Good
and
a
Bad confcience.
This
diflinetton
we
reade
of
in
Scripture
:
Concerning
a
good con-
fcience,
fee
Heb.
i
3.
i8.
We
troll whom:
asood
confcience.
Concerning
a
bad
confcience
fee
Heb.
io.
z/.
Having
our
hearts
fprinkled
from
,en
evil
confcience.
There
be
both the
members
of
the
diflin6tion.
Of
them both
briefly
and
in
order;
and
firfl
of
a
good
confcience.
The
goodneffe
of
confcience
is
two
-fold;
naturali,
and
re-
newed.
r.
The
naturali
goodneffe
of
confcience
conlifletlf
in
thofe
reliques
of
goednefTe
which
it
retaineth
fence
the crea-
tion. Ye know man
depraved and corrupted
his
confcience
by
his
fall
:
yet
there
be
Tome
reliques left,
as
reafon, and
know-
ledge, and reflexion.
J
do
not mean reliques
of
any
fpirituall
goodneffe
in
confcience
:
For
as
there
is
no ipirituall
goodneffe
left
in
the other
faculti:s
of
the
foul,
fo
neither
in
confcience.
But
the
naturali
goodneffe
which
J
mean
is
nothiag
elle
but
the
veracity
of
confcience,
whereby
it
is
infbrced
according
to
the knowledge
it
hath
to
tell
the
truth.
Thus
every
wicked
man
bath
a
good
confcience :
Their
confcience
is
good
in
that
fenfe ;
their
confcience
hash this
naturali
goodneffe
that
it
.
telleth them
the
truth how
it
is
with them.
Nay,
it
is
effentialf
to
confcience
to be good
in
this
fen
re.
It
is
the etfentiall
pro-
perty
of
confcience
to
fpeak
according
to
its
knowledge.
It
is
the
bell faculty
a
wicked man
hath
:
it
is
better
then
his
mind,
or heart, or
will.
There
is
more goodneffe
in
a
wicked mans
confcience
then
in
any
other
of
the powers
of
his
foul
His
confcience
fpeaketh more
for
God
then
himfelfdoth,
and
(land-
ed'
more
for
God
then
himfelf will.
Not
but that
as
all the
i
powers
of
the foul
are defperately
corrupted by
finne, fo
confci-
ence is
defperately corrupted
as
well
as
any
öf
them
:
but
J
.
fpeak
of
the
efhentiall
goodneffe
of
it, which can never
be
loll.
.,The