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Treati
fê
ofGonfcience.
merited.
But
I
am
not
to
(peak
of
fuch
confciences,
but
of
the
confcience
of
man.
Now
the
confcience
of
man
is
the
judg-
ment
of
man
upon himfelf
as
he
is
fubjeet
to Gods
judgment:
Divines
life
to
expretle
it
in
this
Syllogifine,
Be
that
truly
be-
lieveth
in
Chriff (hall
be
faved
;
My confcience
telleth
me this
is
Gods
word
:
But
1
beleeve
truly
in
(hrifl.
My confcience tele
leth
me this
allo.
Therefore
1
Jball
be
faved.
And
fo
alto
on
the
contrary
fide. So
that
confcience
is
a
mans
true judgment
of
himfelf
:
If
we
would
judge
our
felves
:
that
is,
if
we
would
Cor,II
bring our
felves
before the Tribunal
of
confcience
to
receive its
31.
judgment.
Foure
Propofitions
are
contained
in
that portion
of
Scrip-
ture,
which I
have
cholèn
to
make
the
fubjeé
of
this enfuing
Treatife,
Rom.
2.1
5..
i.
That
there
is
in every
man
a
confcience.
[Their
confcien-
,F'oure
ces
bearing
them witne
fe,]
Every one
of
them
had
a
confcience
Propofi-
bearing them
witneffe.
tions.
2.1
That
the light
which confcience
is
direEted
to work
by is
kr.owledge [Written
in
their
hearts.]
3.
That
the bond
that
bindeth
a
mans confcience
is
Gods
law
[which
Jew
the
of
feti
of
the law
written
in
thei.c
hearts.]
4.
That
the
office
and duty
of
confcience
is
to
bear witneffe
either with our
felves
or
againfl our
felves,accu(ing
or
excufing
our
felves
or
aetions
[bearing
witneffe,
and their thoughts
accufïng or
excufing
one
another.].
I begin
with the
ftrft.
I.
There
is
in
every
mina
con°
fcience.
Iohn
8. 9.
zCor
-I.1
3
Tit.
z.
15
Propofition
I.
7
here
is in
every
man
a
confcience.
Here
was
a
confcience
in all
there
heathen
in
the text: their
j
confcience;
:
There
was
a
confcie nce
in
the
Scribes
and
Phatifees,
being
convil-íed
oftheir
own
confciences
bearing
them
witnefire.
There
is
aconfcience
in
good
men;as
in
'Paul;
our
re-
joycing is this,theteFfimony
of
our con(cience,There
is
a
confcience
in
wicked
men,theirmind
and
conJcience
is defiled.
As
it
is
im-
poffible