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A
rreati,f'e
of
Confcience.
provoke the Lord
co his
face.
If
it
be
fuch
a
(inne
to
(inne
a-
gainft confcience
in an
errour,
it
is
much
more
a
finne
to
(inne
againft confcience
it
being
in
the
right.
Thus
much
of
a
conici.
ence
erring.
III.
A
doubting
Confcience.
A
Doubting
confcience
is
fuch
a
confcience
as fo
hangeth
in
fufpenfe
that
it
knoweth
not
which
way
to
take:
it
know-
eth
not
which
is
the
(inne
and which
not.
If
it
goes
this
way
to
work,
It
may be I
Jhyall
finne
,
faith confcience
:
if
that
way
,
It
may
be
I
fhall
finne
too,
faith
confcience.
Such
a
man finneth
which way foever
he
taketh.
The
reafon
is
this
becaufe
he
doubreth. He that
doubteth
is
condemned
if
he
eat,
faith
the
A.
poftle
:for
whatfoever
is
not
of
faith
ú inne.
Suppofe a man
doubteth
whether
it
be lawful)
for
him
to
do
fuch
a
thing,
and
doubteth alto whether
he may
lawfully
omit
the
doing it
; irr
fuch
a
cafe
whether
he
do
it or not
do it he
finneth,becaufe
both
wayes
he
doubtech.
Yet
here
thefe rules are very
ufefull.
I.
Rule;
When
confcience
doubreth
on
the one
part
and
is
refolved on
the
other
,
we
muff refufe
the
doubting
part
and
take
that
wherein we are
certain
and lure.
As
for
example;
When
one doubteth
of'
the
lawfulneffe
of
playing
at
cards and
dice he
is
fure
it
is
no
(inne
nor
to play,
but
whether
he
may
lawfully play
he
doubteth
:
in this cafe
he
is
bound
not
to
play.
So
when on doubtech
whether
is
be
a
finne
not to call
his
family
together
every day
to
prayer
;
Gods
minifters
tell
him he
mutt
or
he finneth:
I
doubt
of that,
faith
he.
Do
you
fo
?
but you
are
fure
it
is
no
finne
to
do it
:
Therefore
you are
bound
to
doe
it
becaufe
you are
bound
to
decline the
doubtfull
part
and
rake
that
which
is
certain. And
fo
of
all
other
the
like
particulars.
2.
When
confcience
doubteth
on
both
fides
which
is
the
fin,
and
which
not,
then
a
man
ought
to
do
that
which
is
moft
void
of
offence.
As
for example;
Say
an
Anabaptift
amongf}
us
doubteth whether
it
bea
finne in him
to
bring
his
child
to
Church
to
be
baptized,
or
a
finne
to
refufe;
here
his
rule
is,
That
that
which
is
molt
void
of
offence, and mot}
agreeable
to bro-
G
therly
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;.
A
doubting
confci-
ence..
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z;.
Rule
r.
Rule
2.