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5
2
i
A
Treatife
of
Confcience.
By
this we
fee
the dangerous eftate
of
thole
men
who
have
fuch
a
confcience.
There
be
many
who
live in
many
fumes,
in
carnall
courfes
,
forme
in
company
-
keeping and drunkenneffe;
Come in
hatred
and
v
arience,
force
in
chambering
and
wanton-
nef
e,
Tome
in
covetoufhefie and ,love
of
this
prefent
world
your
consciences, no
queflion,
can
fay,
yee
Aould
do
well to be
more
godly
,
to
look,,more
after
Chrifl and
after
heaven, and
yee
fhould
do
Well to
get
the
truth
of
faving
grace
;
yet
it
may
be
they
fay
nothing
or nothing to
the purpofe
in
this
behalf,
Therefore
is
thefè mens
cafe fo
dangerous
becaufe
their
con
-
fciences
are
fo
filent and
fo
remifl'e,
They
have loft
the molt
fovereigne
remedy,
namely confcience. Confcience
is
the
moll
fovereigne
means
(under
God
and
his
holy
spirit)
to
work
re-
pentance
in
men
that
can be
;
and
is
it
not
dangerous
to
have
it prove
traiterons
and unfaithful
?
What
good
can
the
mini-
ftry
of
the
Word
do
unto
you
when every
idle and falle
excufe
or
pretenfe
which the wifdom
of
the fieih
can
devife, can
ftop
the mouth
of
your
confcience
when
it
calleth upon
you
to
do
what
the
Word
requireth
?
It
mutt needs
be
dangerous
,
and
fo
much
the more
becaufe
it
is
fo
pleating
unto
you:
ye
take de-
light
in
fuch
filent, and
large,
and
remiRe
unfaithful con
-
fciences; ye love
not
to
have
your
confciences
too
bule
with
you,
ye
like
not
that
your
confciences
fhould
be
too
clamorous and
importunate
with
you;
ye
would
have
them
not too
rigid and vehement
againft
your
frnes. It
fareth with
you
as
with
many young men who
have fold
them
-
felves
unto
folly,
and
think none
their
friends
but
paratites
that
flatter
them, or thofe
who connive and
wink at their
folly:
but
fuch
friends
will
foon prove foes,and
fo
will
fuch
moderate
and
quiet
confciences.
It
is
a
dangerous
thing
to
have
fuch
a
:lent
confcience
;
to
want
the
chief
means
under
God
of
doing
a
man
good.
It
was confcience
that told
the Lepers
,
We
do
not
well
to
hold our peace:
It
was confcience
that
never would
let
the
Prodigal
Tonne be
quiet
till
he
returned
to
his
father
,
and
faid
unto
him,
I
have
finned
againff heaven
and
before
thee,
and
am
no
more worthy
to be
calledthy
Tonne :
It
is
confcience
that
is
the
Kings
7.