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Rule
3
A
71reatife
of
Conf
ience.
therly unity and
concord,
is
to
be
taken, the
balance hanging
otherwife
even
;
and the arguments
to
urge
both
the one
or
the
other
feeming
of
like
weight
,
then this
muff be
put
into
the
Peale
and refoïve
the
doubt.
3.
It
is
lawful'
to
do
fume
things
when
yet our
confcience
doubteth
of
the
lawfulneífe
of
them. For
we mull confider
there
are
two
kinds
of
doubting
:
there
is
a
fpecu'ative doubt-
ing, and
there
is
a
prac`Iicall
doubting.
Speculative
doubting
is
to
doubt
of
the lawfulneffe
of
the
thing
it
Pelf
to
be
done
:
Pratìical
doubting
is
to
doubt
of
the
law fulneffe
of
the
doingof
it.
Now
this
latter
is
not
alwayes
a
finne,
but the
other
is
:
As
for
example;
If
a
fervant
be
commanded
of
his
mailer
to attend
on
him
on
the
Lords
day
',
he
knoweth
not
what
his
bufineffe
fhould
be, and
perhaps
doubteth
it
is
not
of
fich
moment
as
to
'
be
done
on
that
day;
yet
he
hath
no reafon
to
deny
his
atten.
dance
:
in
this
cafe
though
he
doubt
of
the
lawfulnefie
of
the
thing done,
yet
he
need
not
doubt
of
the doing
of
it,becaufe
he
knoweth not what
the
bulineffe
is,
and
hath
no reafon
whereby
he
is
able
to
juflifie his
refufal.
And
fo much
alto
of
a
doubt-
ing confcience.
4
A
fcru-
pnlous
corfci-
ence,
IV.
4
fcrupulous
Conscience.
`f
Ie difference
between
a
doubting
confcience
and
a
fcru-
pulous
confcience
is
this;
A
doubtful
confcience
hangeth
in
fufpence, and
doubteth
which
is
the
finne
and
which
is
law
-
full
;
but
a
fcrupulous confcience
inclineth
to
the lawfulnefle
of
the thing
to
be
done,
but
yet
not without
many
doubts and
scruples, becaufe
of
fome difficulties which
it hath
heard
of,
and
which
it
knoweth not
h
)w
to
anfwer
or
refolae.The
rule which
here
we
mutt
go
by
is
this,
When
we
encline
to the
lawfulneffe
of
the thing,
we
fhould
labour
to
fuppreffe
all
difficulties and
ambiguities
wich
caufe
us
to doubt. The
ApoRle includeth
this rule
in
that
word
fully;
Let
every
man
be
fully
perfivaded
in
his
heart
:
Get
all
difficulties
removed,
all
Rumblings, and
flickings, and
hoverings,and
fcruples
taken away.
But how
if that
cannot
be
done
?
how
if
we
cannot
get
all
fdruples
removed
?
If