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A
Treatife
o
f
Con
fcience.
I.
A
godly
mans confcience
fmiteth him, and
ftirreth
him
very
kindly,
fo
chat he
melteth before
God.
When David
had
numbred the
Peo
-ple,
the
text
faith,
His heart
fmote him.
The
word
fignifieth
it lmotehim
kindly,
gave him
a
loving
blow,
made
him
fpread
forth
himfelfbefore
God,
A
wicked
mans
confcience giveth him
a
dead
blow,
a
churlish and fullen
blow.
2.
A
godly mans
confcience
flirreth
him
up
reciprocally
:
He
ftirreth
up
his
confcience,and his confcience il:irreth
up
him;
he
fpeaketh to
his
confcience, and
his
confcience
fpeaketh
to
him
:
The
furring
is
reciprocal.
Commune
with your
hearts,
What
haft
thou
done O
my
foul
?
Thus and thus have
1
done,
faith
the
foul.
Wheras
a
wicked
mans confcience fpeaketh
to
him,but
he
cannot
endure to
fpeak
to
his
confcience:
his
confcience
flir-
reth
him
but
he hash
no will
to
flirre
his
confcience
;
nay,
lac
doth
all
he can
to
keep it
quiet
:But
the godly
as
his
confcience
fmiteth
him,
fo
he
fmiteth upon
his
confcience
:
I
['mote upon
my
thigh, faith
Ephraim.
The
godly, when
confcience
flirreth
therm,they
flirre it and provoke
it
to
fpeak out all it bath
to
fay,
Commune
with your
own
heart,
and
be
Rill:
They are
flill
to
give
it full
audience,
and
call
upon
it
to
(peak
on
;
What haft thou
more
to
fay
confcience
?
3.A
godly
mans confcience
flirreth
him
to
good;and
he
is
re-
folved
to
go
to
the utmoft
of
what
confcience
flirreth
him un-
to
:
that with
Job,
his confcience
may
not
reproch him
all
his
days
for
not
following
it
:
Whereas
it
is
otherwife with the
wicked.
3. The
third
ufe
is
this
;
Seeing confcience
is
appointed
by
God to
be
our
guide
and our counfellour, it
íhould
be
our
pra.
nice
in
every
thing
we
do
to
ask.counfell
of
confcience
whether
we
were
heft
do it
or
no.
I fay
that
confcience
is
Gods
ora-
cle
:
Whatfoever
we
are
to
do
we Ihould
(as
David;
enquire
of
Gods
oracle,
May I
go:this
.way
to
.work
or.;fhall
.I
take
an-
other
courte
?
Hear
counfel
and
receive infßru
on,
faith
Solo-
mon,
that
thou
mayeff
be
wife
at
thy
latter
end.
Confcience
is a
faithful counfeilo
r;
Agar
sit..lt
is
the
great
,mercie of.
God
that thou
sail
fuck,
rotor
fei
:4iou
canfl
go
no
where
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but
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Sam.
z
4.
to.
Pfa1.4.4.
Jer.31.19
Job
27.6.
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3.
I
Sam.z;.
Z.
P rOv.19,
20,