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3.
zCor.I,12
A
Treatie
of
Gon
f
eience.
would
fecal
godly
and
perform good
duties,
but with hypocri-
tical hearts
and
carnal
minds.
O that
they
would hear
but con-
fcience
argue
a
little
in
this
manner;
To
be
carnally
minded
is
death,that
is,is an
evident
fisnof
a man
that
is in
the
frate
of
death
and damnation,
Put,
faith confcience,
I
am
carnally minded;
or
we
are
carnally minded:
Therefore
We
have
an
argument a-
bout
Ui
of
death and
damnation. And
fo
alf'o
for
all
other
fins
;
There
is
not
a
wicked
man
under
heaven but
he may
argue
out
of
his
own milerable eftate
by
his
confcience,
or
he
might
if
it
were awaked,as one day it
will be.
Thirdly,
this
may ferve
for
inftruL`tion.
No
matter what
o-
pinions
men
have
of
us
in
the
world
:
The
queftion
is,
What
is
El
e
judgment
of
our own
confciences
upon
us
?
It
may be
thou art taken for
a
man
of
gteat knowledge ,
and
a
forward
man
in
godlineffe;it
may
be
the godly
dare not
judge
otherwife
of
thee,
but
the
queftion
is,
What
is
the judgment
of
confci-
ence
?
Doth not
thy confcience
tell
thee
thou
art
but
a
proud
fool, conceited
of
thy knowledge
,
and loveft
to
hear thy
felfe
talk
?
And
fo
for
thy
performance
of
good duties, what
tefti-
mony
Both confcience give
of
the manner
of doing
of
them
?
The
teftimonial
of
confcience
is
above all
teftimonials
in
the
world
:
all
the good opinions
of
the
world
are
not worth
a
rufh
without
this
:
If
confcience
can
fay
that
in
our
ways
we
feek
to
pleats
God,
and allow
not
our
selves
in
any
evil
way,
this
teflimony
is
full and
fatisfadory,
and only this.
Yet further
concerning
this judicial
witneffe
of
confcience
:
It
is
either about things
to
be
done
or omitted,
or
things
alrea-
dy done
or omitted. The
judicial witneffe
of
confcience
about
things
to
be
done or omitted
is
double
:
i.
To
judge
out
of
Gods
law
whether
it be
good
or
evil
;
2.
To
counfel
out
of
our
own
judgments,
either to
do it
or
forbear
it according
as
the
nature
of
the action
is
;
If
it be
good,
confcience will counfel
us
to
do
it;
if
bad,
to
forbear
it.
The
judicial witnefl'e
of
con-
fcience
about things already done
is
four -fold
To
approve
;
2.
To
abfolve
;
3.
To
miílike
;
4
To
condemne,
I
begin
with
the
fiat,
the
judicial
witnef
a
of
confcience
about things
to
be
done