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!
A
Treatife
of
Confcìence.
ing, and reading, and hearing,
and
conferring
will never
be
a-
ble
to
do it
:
it
is
only
in
the
power
of
him
who
made
us
to
do
it.
Thy
hand) have made
and
fafhioned me
:
o
give
me
under
-
73.
Banding,
that I
may
learn
thy commandments.
He
who made our
coniciences,
he
only
can give
them
this heavenly light
of
true
2,
knowledge
and right
underftanding
:
and
therefore
let
us
feek
ear neflly
to
him
for it.
2.
We
mutt
leek
it
in
humility,
alwayes
fufpe&ing
our own
knowledge.We
are
not too
confidently
and
prefumptuoufly
to
trull
to
our
own
judgment,
and defpife or
neglea
the
judgment
of
others,
The
humble
God
Will
teach;
Pride
and
felf
conceiredneffe
blindeth
exceedingly,
3.
We
mutt
Peek
with
fobriety,always
contenting
our
felves
with
that
know.
ledge which
is
mot} necef
ary
,
and
not
be
curious
about
vaine
and idle
-
brained que[tions,
or
folicitous
to
anfwer every
obje.
lion
that
(hall
be
railed up againft the
truth.
A
lover
of the
truth
(
hould
not
be
ready
to
entertain
all
obje&ions againft it,
and never
be
fetled
till
he can
anfwer
all
that
can
be
cafe
in;
which
will be
never.
It
is
not
expe&ed
that there
should
be
in
every man
ii
ch
a
ripeneffe
of
judgment
and
fuch a
meafure
of
illumination
as
that
he
íhould
be
able
to
difpute with the
molt
learned, or
anfwer every
obje
&ion
that
can be
railed
:
But
we
muff
with
that
good Martyr
fay
,
Though
I
cannot di-
jb
ute
for
(hril
I
can
die
for
him
:we
mutt
be
content
with our
meafure,
to
be
wife
unto fobriety.
III.
Thofe godly
fouls
that
have
weak
confciences
muff
ufe
them
very
gently
:
Scrupulofi
non
font
rigidè
tratlandi
,
Those
that
are
fcrupulous
are
not to
be
handled rigidly.When
a
mote
is
in
the
eye,
it
is
not
boiftroufly
to
be
dealt
withal
:
that
will
make
it worfè.
The
eye
is
a
tender part,
and fo
is
the
confci-
ence.
Again,
we
muff
take
heed
of
offending
weak
confcif
nces.
ht
may be
thou knoweft thine own liberty
that
thou mayft
do
this or
that;
but thy
brother
is
weak,
and
he
doth not
know
it
to
be
lawful
:
O
take heed
of
giving
offence
:
Confider the
A-
polies
words,'
Cor. 8.
12
When
ye
fin againft
your
brethren
and
wound
their
Weak.confciences,
ye fin
againft Chrift.
Confider
alto
the
praaice
of
the Apoftle,
and
the refolution that
he had
;.
If
meat
Pfd.
a
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51
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3.
Vfe
3.
Antonia.