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A
Treatife
o
f
Con
f
cience.
God.
A
man can
never
go
againft his
confcience
but he
fin
-
nttb,
T.
Becaufe
confcience
is
our
guide
:
It
is
our inward
and
our infeparable
guide
:
we can never come
by
any
direftion
but
by
confcience
;
we
can
never
let
in
the Commandment
of
God
but
only by confcience
:
and
therefore the
Lord
bath
made it
a
very
foveraign
thing.
2.
Becaufe
we
break
a
com-
mandment
through the loyns
of
a
finne,
when we go
againft
confcience.
4jdax
light
upon
a
beaft and
flew it
:
his
confci-
ence
thought
verily
it
was
a
man
;
Kill it
not,
faith confcience,
it
is a man
:
he
goeth
againft
his
confcience
and killeth
it.
His
confcience here was
in an
errour, yet
he
as
truly guilty
of
mur-
der before
God
as
if
he
had indeed
(lain
a
man,becaufe
he flew
a
man
throngh
the
loyns
of
this beaft
:
His
bloody mind look-
ed
at
a
man, and
[mote
at
a
man,
and
flew
a
man.
So
when
confcience
is
erroneous,
and
thinketh
this
is a
Commandment.
of
God
;
it
is
not
fo,
but
he
thinketh
it
fo
in
his
confcience
:
if
he
do contrary
he
breaketh aCommandment though
it
be
none,
becaufe
the
errour of
his
confcience
made
it
one
to
him.
Was
not
Herod
truly
guilty of
the
murder
of Chrift
?
He
thought
in
his
confcience
that
Chrift
had been
among
the infants
{lain
at
Bethlehem.
Thus
confcience
is
a
foveraign
thing
:
It
is
always
a
finne
to
go againft
it,erre
or
not erre
;
and
if it
be
a
finne
to go
againft
confcience
when it
erreth,
what
a
finne
is
it to
go a-
gainft
it,
when it
doth
not
erre.
11.
This
may ferve
for
a
word
of
exhortation,
to
exhort
men
to
beware
left they finne
againft
confcience
;
efpecially
when confcience
is
in
the
right.
Confcience
is
as
Gods
face
in
a
man
:
when
confcience
looketh
on
thee, the Lord looketh
on
thee.
It
is
true,
the
Lord looketh
on thee always
:
but thou
mayft
fee
the Lords looking
upon
thee when
confcience
look
-
eth
on thee
:
And
therefore thou
never
Gnneft againhl
confci-
ence but thou
provokeft the
Lord to
his
face,
when
not
only
God
feeth
thee, but thou
feeft him.
Thy confcience
fheweth
thee the Lord
;
it
prefenteth God
before thine eyes, comman-
ding
or
forbidding,
Wilt
thou
do
the
evil
now?
Wilt
thon omit
the
good
duty
now
?
When
confcience findeth
fault
thou
doff
now
provoke