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.f1
rreatife
o
f
Con
rczence.
caufe
againfi the houle
of
Ahab and
the PrieRs
of
Baal
;
but it
fuffered him
to
maintain the
high
places which
7eroboam
had
fet
up.
Thus
G.
,fmaliel's cons fence
made
him
fpeak well
for
Paul,
and
yet continue
(it
feemeth)
in
much
other
evill. This
confcience
will
retrain
from
great [taring
linnes,
or
from
fuch
as
the
man
hath no natural
propenfity unto
:
but
others
which
feeme
of
a
lower nature, or
which are fuitable
to
a
mans
par-
ticular
delres,
there
confciencè
will
fwallow
without
remorfe.
As civil
people,
that
cannot
fwallow
down couzenage
and in-
juíict,
and
yet
neg!ec`t
of
prayer
and
other
religious
duties
ne-
ver
troubleth
them. And
fo
Tome
profeffours, who cannot
o'
mit
hearing Sermons
and
talking of Religion,
and
yet
can
refl:
without
the power thereof.
3.
It
is
remifï'e;
that
is,
though
it
doth
counfel
and
direa,
yet it
doth
it
with
fuch
coldnefle
and rernifleneffe,
that
it
is
ea-
fily
anfwered
and put
off.
Thus
is
was
with
`David.
It
cannot
be
thought
but
his
confcience
Paid,
Plot
not
agains`1
Vriah's
life:
but
he
would;
and
fo
confcience let
him
do
it.
This
confcience
will
be
anfwered
with
every flight and idle
excuse
:
As
when
confcience
telleth one,
Your
wayes
are
not good
:
I
Wifh
you to
re-
pent,
and
make
your
peace
with
Cod;
it
may be
the
man an-
fwereth,
Tea,
fo
I
mean
to
do;
but
I
cannot
yet intend it
:
when!
have
difjiatch
fuch
and loch bufinefe
then
I
will
do
it,
If
confci-
ence fpeak again,
Yea,
but
you
were
belt
to
do
it
now
;
True,faith
he,
I
know
it,
1
know
it.
If
god
would
give
me
repentance
I
would repent
:
It
his
gift
;
of
my
felt I
cannot
do
it. Or
when
it telleth
him
of
family duties,
it
may be he
anfwereth
,
l
have
no
leafure;
fo
long
as
I
go
to
cod
by
my
felf, I
hope
it
will
ferve
turn.
Or
when
it
telleth
him
of
his
wickedneffe,
it
may.
be he
anfwereth,
_Many
eorfe
then
I
have found
mercy;
and I
hope
fo
[hall
1.
This
is
the
confcience
that letteth
a
mans
heart
fay,
I'hall
have
peace.
Now
confcience being
remifl'e
and
cold, it
is eaG1y
put
off and
anfwered
with
thefe idle
and foolifh
excu-
fes,
or
with
fome
other
pretenfes
like
there, and
fq
letteth
the
man
go and
live
as
before.
This
confcience
is
like
Eli,
which
laid,
Ye
do
not well,my
fanned,
but exercifed
no feveritv
to caute
them
to
do
otherwife.
H
2
Deut.
29.
19.
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