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d
treatí
fe
©f
Cvn
fcïence,
is
quick,
and
poyverfull
;
it pierceth
even
to
the
dividing
afunder
of
foul
and
1p
:rit,
and
u
a
dsfcerner
of
the
thoughts
and in-
tents
of
the
heart.
This bindeth
a mans
thoughts
and
in-
tentions
;
he
cannot
b::
tree
in
there
:
and
there
-ion
is
given
ve
f.,13.
by
the
A
poftle ,
All
things
are
naked
and
open
to
the
eyes
of
,him
with
whom
we
have
redo.
As
if
he
had
fàid,
We
are
con
-
icious
of
Gods
all
-1eein
power
;
he
teeth
our
hearts
and our
thoughts and
all that
is
in
us
I
and therefore
his
word doth
band
us,
yea
it
bíndctli all
our
teeters
:
we cannot think
a
vain
thought but our
conicience
will
crie
guil. tebefore
God,
be-
caute our conicienee
cloth
know that
God knoweth all.
Be-
(ides,
the conicience
cannot
tear
any
law but
onely
Gods
law.
Ye
know
when
conicience
is
once
in a
doubt,
it
is
fearfull, and
beginnech
to
ask
cueftions
with
it
ielf
May
Ì
do
this
?
or map
z.
Cana
6,
J
not
do
it
?
asking no
pie
/lions
for
confèience
fake. The con-
2.7.;
fcicnce
when
it
doubteth
:ufèth
to ask
queítions.
Now
this
fuppo'éth
the
law-
giver
to
be
able
to
fee
it
:
otherwifè the
conicence
would not
be
thus
afraid,
if it
w ere
onely
the
corn-
,
mandrnent
of
a
creature,
that
could
not
fearch
the
heart..
So
that
here
ye
fee
one
reafon
why
Gods
law
is
t
.e
túpreme bond
ofconicicrnce
;
Becaufe
no eye
can
fee
it
but Gaels.
2.
Becaufe
God
oncly bath power
over
confcience
:
It
is
his
con ma.ndment
onely that
makes, any
thing
(inne_
or not
(inne
unto
us.
Augyftmne
defineth
(inne
to
be 9
thought er
word
or
deed or
luft
ag.avnf1
the
commandment
of
Gad.
Again..
peal
SI
ç thee againfti
thee
only
have
,3
finned,
faith
David.
He
fàitfrr
he
had finned
arely
aas
,t.Ìt
God;
Why?
you will
fey he
17nned
aifo
again(.
Bath(heba
,mid
not
he commit
adulterie
?
that
was a
!inne
again.
Bath¡heba
. and murder?
.
that
was a
Anne
againfstfriar;.
True,
he finned
againfcman
rel`.ttively, in
re-
Li
non to the commandment
which faith, Thou (halt
xot
aware
thy
neighbour
:but
primarily and principally the finne was a-
.gar'
it
God.
Confciepce_
is
like the
kings
férvant,
whom
none
j
can arrett
or
att'
ch
without
leave from
the king
fo
no
man
cln
bind conicience
without
leave
had
from
God
:
for
conicience
is
onely
fiibjet
to
his
power
:
he
onely
hath power
over confci-
ence.
z.
Becaufe