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I
d
treatife
of
Con,
fcience.
aflùrance
of
the
pardon
of
our
finnes,
and
fo
true
peace
and
comfort eflablifhed
in it.
This
is
the reafon
why
the
Scripture
I
joyneth
a
good
confcience
and
faith
fo
often
together
:
as
I.
Tim.
3.9.
Holding
the
myf
eric
of
faith
in
a pure
confci-
:ence.
It
cannot
be a
pure
or
good conlcience
if
faith
be
not
held
in
it.
As
long
as
the
confcience
is
not
underpropped by faith,
1
the
confcience
muff
needs be in
a
wilderneffe
:
Perhaps
r
sy
1
fcnnes
are
imputed unto
me
;
perhaps
they
are
pardoned
:
Perhaps
they
are
covered,
perhaps
not. As
long
as
the
confcience
lieth
1
1
under
thefe
uncertainties,
it
cannot
be
firm
and foundly good iu-
deed
:
therefore
we
mull labour
for
affurance
of
pardon by
faith. Thus
much
of
a good renewed
confcience
that
is
perfé,;
t-
ly
and
foundly renewed.
An iafirml
II.
Secondly, There
is
a good
confcience
renewed but
not
confcience.
foundly
renewed,
very
much
as
yet
defèétive and imperfe
&.
i
The
former confcience
is
called
confcientia
firma,
a
firm confci-
once
:
This
is
called
confcientia
infirma,
an
infirm
confcience.
Rom.
15 .
i
.
We
that are
fining
ought
to
bear
the infirmities
of
the
weal`.
This
infirm conlcience
is
a
good
confcience
too,
and renewed,
but
cumbred
with
fundry imperfeUions
;
which
in proceffe
of
time by
groweth
in
grace
are for
the
mot1
part,
conquered
in
the
godly. True
faith
is
required
unto
this
:
For
the
Apof#le
calleth
fuch an one
a
brother
in
Cbrifi,
one
that
Roair.i4,
bath
this infirm confcience
:
It
is good
neither
to
eat
fief
h,
norte
ti
drink
wine, nor
any
thing
whereby thy
brother
fumbleth.
And
i
we
mutt
not
let
fuch an one
at nought,
T'ufh
what
care
J
for
him?
I
snow
I
may
lawfully
do
i
Ions
:
and this
is my
Chriftian
liberty
;
and
(hall
I
lofe
it
for
him.,
becaufe
of
his
confcience
?
Kerns
4.
Nay
faith the
A
pofile,
$'hy
doll
thou
fet at
nought thy
brother
?
io.
Mark
;
The
Apoflle
couateth
fuch an
one
a
Chriffian brother,
and
not to
be
lct
at
nought
:
and therefore this
is
a
good con-
fcience
too,
differing
as
much
as
white
from
black
from fuch
confciences as are
weak through
fuperflition
of
mind and
through
1
pride
of
heart,
becaufe
they
will
not
be
otherwife. or
through
afieeted
ignorance becaufe
they love not
to
be bct_er
informed.
Thefe weak
confciences are
wicked
;
J
fpeak
not of
thefe
:
J
(peak