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1
!1
treati¡e
of
Confcience.
with them.
But they
de
not trouble
their
thoughts
to aim at
Gods commandment in
it. Let me
tell you
;
Conlcience
will
not
count
this obedience
:
For
confcience feeleth no
bond
but
Gods word
:
and
if
ye
do
not look
at
that,
it
is
no
obedience
with
confcience
;
conlcience
will
never
acquit you
or
abfblve
you
for
this;
it
accounteth
of
this
obedience as
no
obedience
at
all.
See
r.
Cor.
io.
25.
and
fo
forward. There
the
Apof}le
handling
that
queftion
of
confcience, at
laid
concludeth,
Whe-
therye
eat
or
drin
f
or
whatfoever
ye
do,do
411
to
theglorie
of
God,
veri. 31.
Let your hearts look at that,
and
aim at
that
;'
iu
whatfoever
ye
do,
hill
look
at
Giod
:
all is loll with
confci-
ence
ellè.
Though
ye
eat never io
foberly,
and
drink
never
fo
moderately,
pray
never
fo
duly,
conlcience
counteth
it
all
no-
thing
if
ye
do not
look
at
God
:.
It
is
God onely
and
his
word
that
Both
bind
it
;
and
it
will
never give
a
dilcharge except
your
hearts
look at him.
life
3.
3:
This
ferveth
to confute
our Antinomifts,
fuch
as
fay the
law
of
God
bindeth not the
confcience
of
the
regenerate. 'Ye
fee
here
that the
law
of
God
bindeth
the conlcience
:
and
therefore
if
the-
regenerate have any confcience
at
all,
(
as
cer-
tainly
they have
the
heft
conic'
of
all
men)
then it muff
Fró
what
needs bind
their
confcience,.
We
confc
e
the
coe
fcience
of
the
Chriftians
regenerate
is
freed
from
many
chines
by C
hrií}.
Firft,
it
is
feed
are freed.
from the
yoke
and
bondage
of
the
ceremoniall
law,
Gal.
5.
r.
,Stand
faf
in the
libertie
wherewith
Chrifi bath
made
us
free,
and
be not
entangled with the
yoke:
o
f
bondage.
Every mans
confcience
is
freed from
that
yoke
of
the
ceremaniall
law,
be-
caufeit
ended
in-
Chrif}.
Secondly, the
confcience
of
the regene-
rate
is
freed
from
Peeking
jufification
by the
deeds
of
the
law.
Indeed the firíl covenant was by the
works
of
the
law
;
I
e
that
doeth
them
[hall
live
is
them
:
But
the
fecond
covenant
fpeaketh better things
;
He that
believeth
fhall
be
faved.
It
is
true.
ifGod
had
not
lent
his
Sonne
we
mutt
have fought
jufti-
fication by the
works
of
the
law
:
Though
it
were impoilible
to.find
it
by realon
ofour
Graves,
yet
confcience
was bound
that
way.
But
now that
Chrif}
Jefus'bath
fealed up
a
new covenant