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.
A
Treatf
of
CQnfrzence.
22
knowledge.
As
good
have no confcience
at
all
,
as
confcience
without knowledge
;
for
it
cannot
aet
and
performe
its
office.
This
is
the
reafon why
fo
many
thoufands go on
in
their
Gnnes
without repentance,
becaufe
being
ignorant
they
have
no con-
fcience
to
prick
them
thereunto;
as
Ter. 8.
6.
No
man repenteth
him
of
his wickedneffe ,
faying
,
What
have
I
done
?
Why,
what
was
the
reafon
that
confcience
did
not
prick them,
and
fay,
This thou
haft
done
and
that,
Thus ye
have
rebelled, The
text
anfwereth
in the
next
verle,
My
people know
not the
judgment
of
the Lord.
The
Stork,IZnoWeth
her
time,
and
the
Turtle,
and the
SroalloW;
but
my people
do
not
knout
their
duties.
Another
ufe
is,
to
exhort
us
that
we
would labour
to
perfect
the
light
of
confcience,
that
it may
be able
to
guide
us
and
di-
re&
us
unto heaven.
Our
confcience
hath knowledge
enough
by
the light
of
nature
to
make
us
inexcufable,
and
to
clear
the
juftice
of God
though
he
fhould damne
us
for
ever;
but
there
muff
be
a
greater
light then
that,
that
mutt
guide
us
to
heaven.
O
let
us
pray
to
Chrif}
the true
light
to
fet up
this
light
in
us,
that
we may
never
be
at
a Joffe
in
our
way
to
happinefie, never
ftep out
of the
"right
path
but
our
confcience
may be able
to
put
us in
again, never
go
flowly but
our
confcience may
fpurre
us
on fatter;
that
our
confcience may
not
be like
the fnuff
of
a
candle
in
a
focket,
that
flameth up
now
and
then,
and then
is
dark
again, and
again it flameth out and
is
dark
again
:
A man
may
fee
his
book
by
it, but
he
cannot
fee
to
read
;
he may fee
his his
pen
and
ink by
it,
but
he
cannot
fee
to
write
;
a
woman
may
fee
her needle
and
cloth
by
it,
but
the
cannot
fee
to
work;
fo
it
is
with
fomc mens
confciences; Their
light
is
fo
dimme
that
they
can
fee
the duties,but they
cannot
fee
to
do them;they
can
fee
the commandments of
God,but
they
cannot
fee
to
obey
them.
O
labour
to perfect
the light
of
your
coniciences, that
ye may
fee
to
walk
by
them, And
thus
much
alto of the fecond
propofition
The light
that
confiience
aL eth by
ù
knowledge.
Now
I
fhould
come
to
the third
propofition,
which
as I
firft
.
propounded
them
was
this,the
bond
that
bindes
confcience
is
Gods
Law;
But
will now
a
little
alter the
method,
and make
the
other
VP
2.