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A
firme
confcience
r
Pet.
3.
15,16
treatife
of
Confèience,
I.
To
a
good
confcience that
is
fóundly
renewed five things
are neceffary.
I.
Knowledge
of
Gods
will,, and
that
which
doth follow
the
true knowledge
of
his
will, namely
true humiliation
and
fear.
By nature
the
confcience
is
blind
and
flurdy
and
ven-
turous
; and
therefore
it
is
neceffary
that
it
Lhould be
illigb
:ened
to
t.inderffand
the
will of God
and
to
prefiè it
:
and
again
it
is
neceffary
that
the heart
fhould
be
humbled,
or
elfe
it
will
not
floop
to Gods
will
:
and
it
is
neceffary
alto
that
this
holy
fear
fhould
fall upon
the
heart,
that
it
may not
dare
to
tranfgreffe.
Sc.Peter being
to
fpeak
of
a
good
confcience,
premifeth
all
there
as
neceflàrie
thereunto
:
Fiat
he
advifeth
that
Chrif}ians
have
knowledge
to
be
able
to
give
a
reafon
of
the
hope
that
i,r
in
them;
and
then that they
fiaould
have
e
neekne
fe
and
fear,
for
to
do
it
:
with
nneekneffe
and
fear,
faith
he
,
having a
good confcience.
Mark
Knowledge and
meeknefie and
fear
are
required
to
make
a good
conicience
;
without
them the
confcience
cannot
be
good.
By
nature
we
are
all
,blind, and
f+ubborn,
and
fear
-
leße
of
finning
:
and therefore
till
we
be
cured
of
there evils,
our
conf
ciences
cannot
be
good.
a.
The
fécond
thing
is
a
watchfulneffe
and
warfare
agT
infl
finne
:
This
is
required
too to
a
renewed good
confcience.
By
nature
we
are
drowfïe,
and
careleffe,
and
secure,
and
do
not
(land
upon our guard
to
wage
warre
againff
our
lußs
and
the
der
res
of
our
flefli
;
and
fo
long
our coniciences
can nev
e,
be
good
:
and therefore this fpirituall watehfulneffe and
maintaining
warre againft
(inne
is
required to
the having a good
confcience
:
That
thou
maif
warre
a
good
warrefare
,
faith
Paul
to
Timothie, having
faith
and
a
good
confcience,
I
.
Tim.
i
.
18,
19.
Some
who
famed
to have
a
good
conièience, becaufe
they did
not
maintain
this
holy warfare
againf} finne
and
the
flefh, they have
loll
it
:
Therefore this
is
another
requifite
required
to
a
good
confcience.
3. The third
is
tenderneffe
of
confcience.
By
nature_
our
hearts
are
fealed, and
dead, and
unclean
:
and
therefore
we
muff
get us
tender and pure hearts
if
we
would have
good
renewed
...