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A
T
reatife
of
Confcaence.
himfelf
to
the
contrary.
I
confetïe,
if
confcience
be
importu-
nate
to
the utmoft,
as
it
is
with
Gods
children
,
men cannot
with
any
force
put it
by
it
will have no nay.
Sometimes
it
is
fo
with the wicked
in
tome
particular thing
:
but often
confci-
ence
in
them
is
importunate,
and
yet
will
Puffer
it
felt
to
he
born
down, Now
to
bear
confcience
down
is a
very
high
Gnne,
and exceedingly
hardneth
the
heart
:
therefore
take heed
of
it.
VI.An
tsnfaithfull
Confcience.
fai,hfulln-
hus I
have
handled
a
faithfull
confcience.
The
fecond
af-
confcience
feaion
now
followeth
;
which
is
an
Unfaithful
confci.
ence, I
do not
mean
fuch
an
one
as
is
overtaken
with
evil!
(for
the
beft confcience
bath
his
failings)
but
fuch
a
confcience
as
fo
giveth
in
that
it
fuffereth
a
man
to
forfake
God,
and
to
ferve
the Devil and
his
own
lulls
:
This
is
an
unfaithful
confcience;
`and italfo path
three
properties:
r.It
is a
filent
confcience. 2.It
is
thepcot:es
a
large
confcience.
3.
It
is
a
remiffe
confcience.
t.
It
r.
A
filent confcience,
that
confcience which
knoweth
how
filent,
to
judge, how
to
counfel, how
to
direst,
yet
is
filent, and
faith
nothing
is
an
unfaithful
confcience
;
that
knoweth
what
duties
we
owe
to
God
and
man,
yet
putteth
us
not
upon them, nor
is
importunate
for
the performance
of
them
;
and
fo
for Gnus,
what
we
ought
not
to
do, telleth not
of
the
evill
,
díffwadeth
not from it, urgeth not
arguments
to
caufe
forbearance
;
this
is
an
unfaithful confcience.
It
is
like
to
a
ficepy careleffe coach-
man, who giveth the horfes the
rains, and
letteth
them
runne
whither
they
will
:
So
this
unfaithful
confcience
leaveth
the
rains on
a
mans neck,
and
letteth
him
run
whither
he
will, into
Mich- 7.3.
any
danger,
any mifchief;
that
he may
do
evil
with
both
hands.
Do
ye
not
thinkAhabs
confcience
was
fall
afleep,which
let
him
fell
himfelf
to
work
wickedneffe? and
fo
Manaffeh's
confcience?
I. It
is
2.
A
large
confcience
;
which maketh confcience
it
may
be
large,
of
fome
great
duties but
taketh liberty
in
other
which it count
-
eth leffer.7hus
Doeg's confcience
would
not
Puffer
him
to
break
his
vow, to depart
on the
Sabbath day: but
yet
it
fuffred him
to
z
K;ngs
accnfe
David.
7ehu's confcience
made him zealous
in
Gods
so,
29.
caufe