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reatife
of
Confezence.
fballI
do
this
great
zvickednefe.?
and fo
linne
againsî
God
?
It
Was
confcience
that
diffwaded Nehemiah from flying,
Should
filch a man as
I
file?
And if one
argument
will
not
lerve, con-
fcience
will
tire
more.
The
nie
of this may be
firfl:
for
inflrulion,
Hence
we
learn
that
natural men
may have
a
confcicnce
urging
to
good
and
re-
flreining from
evil.
There
is
no man
fo
evil
or
ignorant,
but
he
bath
naturally
forne
light
with
him by
which confcience
is
fet
on
work
to
advife and
to counfel,
and
to
fay.,
Visit
very
good;
do
it.
This
it
veryfinful;
forbear
it. This
therefore
is
no
fìgne
of
grace
in
any man
to
have his confcience
calling upon
him
to
do
good or
diffwading
him
from
evil
:
The
very heathen had
fo
according to their
light
:
yea and
in
many
of
them it was
for-
cible
to
reflrain them from
many
fins
which they
were
inclined
unto.
And
fó
may many men
be
put
upon
many
good
duties,
not
for
any love
or
liking
of
that
which
is
good,
but
becaufe
they would
pleafe
and
fatisfie
confcience, which
otherwife
will
not
fufer
them
to
be
quiet.
It
was confcience
that
kept
dbimelech
from
defiling
Sarah,
and
yet
a
carnal man.
Here
then
a
quefbbon
may be
asked.
Whether
a
meer natu
ral man can avoid
fin
for
confcience
fake.
1
anfwer,
that
this
expreffion, For
confcience
fake,
may
be
taken
two
ways
:
either i, For
confcience
of
the
Command.
ment
of
God
and
love
to
it
;
and
fo
none
but
Gods
children o-
bey
for
confcience
fake
:
and
fo
it
is
meant
when
Pau/fpeaketh
of
beingfnbjec1
for
confcience
fake and
Peter
fpeaketh offuffe-
ring
wrong
for
confcience
fake.
Or
fecondly,
For
confcience
fake,
that
is,
when confcience
it
felf inforced
by
fear compelleth
one
to
do
a
thing or
not
to
do it
:
As we fay,
A'fy confcience Will
not
fuller
me.
Thus carnal men come
to
Church
for
confcience
fake, and
pray
for
confcience
fake,
&c,
that is,Their
confcience
driveth
them
to
thefe duties, and
will not
be
quiet
without they
perform
them,
Secondly,
Sith
a
meer
natural
man
may have
a
confcience
flirting
him up
to good
as
well
as
the truly godly,
it
will
not
be amilfe
to
give
you the difference.
The
difference
is
in
three
things
:
I.
A