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d
treatife
of
Conf
cienEe,
it
was
in
our
¡own
power,
-yet
when
,tic
have
pro_nil:ed
we
have
bound our
own
conicienccs
to
the
performance, bccau
íè
there
is
Gods
ieal
upon
it
;
Gods
law
coinmandet1i
us
to
be
true
of
Our
words.
Theft arerelative
bonds, bonds
onely
in
relation to Gods law
:
Gods law
is
Rill
the
fupreme
bond
of
con9cicfce. J
will
handle
that
firff.
I.
The law of
God
whereby
he
willzth
and
commandech
and forbiddeth
this
or
that
in
his
word,
this
is
the
main
bond
.
of
conicience
;
When
this bindeth
it,
nothing
clle
can
look
it
;
and
con
.vary,
it
this
look'
it,
nothing
elfé
can
bind
it.
It
fo
bindeth
confcience
as
the
obferving and
violating
of
it
is
that
which
maketh
confcience
clear
or
guilty
before
God.
This
is
it
viahich
niaketh
a
man
a
debtour
;
I
am a
debtour,
faith
Paul,
both
to the
Grecians an:
i
to
the Barbarians
:
That
is,
j
am bound
in
conicience by
Gods
command to
preach
the
Gospel unto
both.
This
is
it
that
denominateth
a
man
to
be
bound
:
Igo
bound
in the
jfirit
unto
,erufalem
;
that
is,
knowing
it
to
be
Gods will
am
bound
in
confcience
to
g
,.
This
is
that
which
layeth
a
necefli'y upon
a
man
;
A
necef
cy
ra
laid
upon
me
to
preach
;
i.
Jam
bound
in
conicience
by
Gods word
fo
to
do.
This
is
that
whSch
layeth
a
kind
of
en-
forcement upon
men;
We
cannot
but
fpeak, the things which
we
have
teen and heard
;
that
is,
If
we fhould not, our con
-
fciences
vvculd
Ric
in
our
faces
:
We
are
bound
by
Gods will
to do
fo,
and our contèiences lay
a
charge
upon
us
that
we
can-
not
go againff
it. The onely
will
and
word
of
almighty
God
is
that
which fupremely bindeth eonfcience.
y.
Becaufe
God
onely knoweth
the
heart;
he feet's
our
thoughts, and
he
onely can
reach
to the
fecrets
of
our
ípirits
;
and
therefore
he
onely
can bind
our
confcience.
For
who
elfe
can tell whether we
make
conicience
of
a
thing
yea or no
?
perhaps we
do,
perhaps
we do
not.
Nor
man nor angel
can
tell
certainly
:
but God knoweth
certainly, and
he
onely
;
and therefore he onely can bind our con'ciences.
When
the
Lord
doth
command
or forbid,
the
conicience
is
privy
that
God
Meth
it
;
and
therefore
now
it is
bound.
T°he
word
of
God
t6
Th°
le,
of
God
the
bond
of
coníè icncc
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to
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