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11,

50

j

t1 treatife

of

Confcáence,

enc.

Do

ye

not remember what: St.

James

faith

now

under

the

Gofpel

?

he

Fence!'

it

yet on

mans canfciefces

:

He

that

feid,

Do

not

.

commit

adultery,

laid

alfo,

Do

not

Dill.

Now

though

thorn

commit

no

adultery,

yet

if

thou

k!ll,

thou

art

he-

emu.

A

tranfgrefirour

ofthe

law.

And

though

yee may call

it

a

law

of

liberty

in

what

1cníè

ye

pleafè, yet

hee

tcl'cch you

,

ye

had bell

look

to

your

words

and deeds

:

fbr ye muff

be

j

dg-

ed

by

this

law

of

liberty,:

So

fpsak

ye

andfo

do

as

they

that Jball

be

_,'stdged

by

the

law

of

liberty.

Ars.

3,

Thirdly,

f

hat which

'being obferved

doth

caufe

the

confci-

ence

ofthe

regenerate

to

excui and being tranfgrefled to ac-

cule,

that bindeth

their

confcience

(For

what

elfè

do you

make

binding

of

confcience

but

this

?

,)

But the

law

of

God

being

obfèn,

ed cloth

caufe

the

confcience to

excule

;,

being tranz-

greffed, to

accuiè

;

in

rn'ny things

we

lbw

all

faith the

Apof}le.

Mark

Our

conkiences, do accuiè

us

:

as

we

do

fo.

3

am

a

ftnfull

man, faith

St. Peter, Luke

S,

8.

His confci-

ence did accufë

him

ofIinne.

Fcurthly. That

which

is

the condition

of

Gods

covenant

of

grace

b'ndeth

the

confcience, yea

of

the

regenerate

:

but

(incere

obedierce

to

Gods law

is a

condition of

Gods

covenant

o`

grace.

See

Lnnke

i.

72.

To

remember his

holy

covenant

and

the oath

that

he

fware

that

he would

give

'u,That

being

de-

livered

out

of

the hands

of

our

enemies

we

might

f

erire

him with

out

fear

in

holine

fe

and

righteou

fnc

f

fe

before

him

all

the dares

of

our

life. Mark;

Sincere

and univeriall

obedience

is

acon-

dition

of

the covenant

of

grace,

not onely

for

a

rnanifenation

to

out

felves

that we

are

truly

¡unified

;

as

chele

upf

{art

Patti-

tians do hold

:

but

it

is

the

condition

of

the covenant

of

grace.

Every covenant bath

its

conditions annexed

;

and

therefore

it

is

called the

'boot

of

the

covenant

Exod,

24.7.

the

words

of

the

covenant

,

E

xod.

;4.

28.

the

tablet of

the

covenant

Deut.

9.

i

I.

The

reafon

is

this

;

Becaufe

when

a

covenant

is

made, the conditions

are

put

into

a

book

or

a

table

and ex-

-prefTed

in

words.

Onely

here

iS

the difference between the

firff>t

1

covenant

of

works and the

fecond

covenant

of

grace

:

Both

Lave

Arg.

4.