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A
Treatife
o
f
Confcience.
5.A
faith
-
full
con-
fcience.
Prov.zo.6
Properties:
i,
lt
is
watchfull.
praying.
f'
irft,
therefore
reconcile
confcience
by
humbling
thy
(elf, and
breaking
thy heart,
and refolving,
I
have
finned,
I
will
do
no
more.When
confcience can
fay
thy forrow
and
repentance,
and
refolution
for
new obedience
is
lincere, then thou
art
fit
to
pray, but not before.
So
whatever
other
duty
thou
goeít
a
bout,
be
Lure
to
reconcile confcience;
elfe
all
will
mil
-
carry.
V.
A
faithful
Confcience.
Tl
Hus
I
have
expounded the
adjun
s
of
confcience,
which
(hew
thtmfelves
in
the difcharge
of
its
duty, namely,
fuch
as
refpea
confciences
ability
to
the
doing
of
it
:
Which,
as
ye
have
heard,
are
foute
:
z.
An
illightned confcience;
2.
An er-
roneous
confcience
;
?.
A
doubting
confcience
;
4.
A fcrupu-
lous
confcience.
Now followeth
thofe
which
do
accompany
it
in
the doing
of
its
duty
:
And
they
are
two
;
i.
A
faithful
con-
fcience
;
2.
An
unfaithful
confcience.
A faithful confcience
is
that
which
doth
always
allvife
and
counfel
right when
need is.This
is a
very
rare confcience:It
is
rareto
Linda
confcience
every
way
faithful.For,to
fay
the truth,
confcience
is
always
faithful
in
it
(elf;
for
it
knoweth not how
to
deal
deceitfully
with
any man: but
yet
I may
fay,
as
Solomon,
Afaithful
man
who
can
find
?
fo,
e.4
f
aithful
confcience
who can
find
?
It
is
a
very
rare
thing.
Not
for
any
deceit
that
is
in
con-
fcience
it
feif,
but becaufe men
commonly would
have
it
un-
faithful
;
therefore
a
confcience
that
will
not let
men make
it
unfaithful though they
would,
fuch
a
confcience
I call
a
faithful
confcience
:
and
'I
fay it
is
rare. But
fuch
a
confcience
there
is
;
and it
bath
three
properties
:
z,
it
is
watchful
; 2.
It
is
rigid
and
Lvere
;
3.
It
is
importunate.
1.
A
faithful
confcience
is
watchful,
always
awake
to
appre
hend
every
opportunity
of
doing
and receiving
good,
or
rtlft
-.
ing evil.
As
when
there
is
an
opportunity to
pray,
to
heare,
to
(hew
mercy,
a
faithful
confcience will
remember
us
of
it, and
put
us
upon
it
:
as
allo when
there
is
any
opportunity
of
quick-
Ding
and
edifying our
(elves
or other
's.
It
was
a
watchful con-
fcience