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f!
treat
fe
of
Confcience,
renewed
confeiences.
The
end
of
the
commandment
is
love,
out
of
a pure
heart
and
good confcience
and
faith
unfeigned,
1.1-1111.
1.
5. See
how
the
Apof
}le
compoundeth
them
to-
a
Pure
heart
and
agood
confcience.
We
muff get our
hearts
purged and
quickened,
that
they
may
be
fenfible
of
the
leaf}
evil'
;
and
then
our
confciences
will
be good
and
be
as
a
bridle
to hold
us
from
evill. A hard heart and
a
good confci-
ence
can never
fiand together.
4.
The fourth
is
the cleannefle
of
confcience
by the
wa(hing
of
Chrilis bloud. This
is
the main and the principal'
of
all
:
Yea
indeed the
blood
of
Lhrift
is
the
foie
and onely
caufe
of
a
good
conicience.
J
would not
be ma-taken
:
J
named
indeed
ocher
cattle'
s
;
Knowledge, and Humbling,
and
a
holy
Fear, a
Combat
againft
finite,
and Tenderneffc
:
but
J
do not mean
as
though
a
good conicience
were
partly beholding to
them
and
partly to
Chrifls
blood
:
For
it
is
wholly
and
onely be-
holding to Chrifts bloud for
its
goodneffe
; his
bloud
is
the
onely
price
of
it
:
But my meaning
is
this
,
That
though
Chri(
}s
bloud
be the
one only
caule
of
redemption.
yet in
the
application
of
redemption the Lord
Me'
th
all thole forenamed
graces
whole he
applieth
it to the
coniience.
Therefore
this
now
J
ad,le
;
The
waíhing
of
Chri(}s
bloud,
this
is
chiefly re-
quired to tliegoodnef(è
of
conicience.
We
have
two
places
of
Scripture
to
prove
it
:
The
one,.Heb. q,
14.
119137
much
more
(hall
the
blond
c
f
r-hrijy
purgeyour
can(ciences from
dead
works?
it
is
that
onely
can
do it.
The other text
is
i,
Pet.
;.
TT.
The
anfwer
of a
good confcience
towards
God
by
the
refurreaien
of
Je
_rids
Chrtll..
Where
the
Apoflie
firfigiveth
thisti'le
toa
re-
newed
confcience,
to
be
called
a
good confcience
Secondly,
he
nameth the
eau
le
that
inaketh
it
to
be
go:)d,
the
power
of
(shrifts
refurreion
:
When
the
refurre6ion
of
Chri(}
Jefus
is
powerfull
upon us, then
confcience
becometh
good.
c. The
fifth
is
guierneffe. By
nature nothing
is
fo
fierce
and
viclent,
if
it
be once
awaked,
as
confcience
is
it is
un-
fpeakably furious. Thus
is
confcience
by
nature
:
and there-
fore
it
can never
be good
untill we
get it appealéd
with the
affurance
l
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