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A
Treatif
of
Confcience.
followed
:
it
will
f}tangfe it fell,
and
!mother
it Pelf;
you (hall
hear
no more
of
it.
Elpecially
take
heed you do
not
rejea
con-
fcience,
nor
offer violence
to
it
:
Ii
you
do,
you will make
it
unfaithful and
remit
e ;
and
then
you lofe
the belt means
under
heaven
of
your
good
:
Then
deadneffe
of
fpirit
fucceedeth,
and hardneffe
of
heart taketh
place,
and
you
deprive
your
fouls
of
all
poffibility
of
cure.
As
long
as
a
tick
man
bath
any poffi-
bility
of
cure he
is {till
under hope
;
but
if
ever
he
lofe
that,he
is
gone
:
Confcience
is
the
poffibility
of
the
foul
to amendment;
and
therefore if
you
dull confcience, and
make conicience re-
miffe
and unfaithful, you
take the
ready way
to
deprive
y
our
felves
of
all
poffibility
of
riling again.
Confider thefe things,
and
have
a
care
of
your
confctences.
And thus
we have
handled the
office
of
conicience
about
things
to
be
done and
omitted,
with
its
adjunns,
affections and
properties
in
that
behalf.
I
come now
to
confider
the
office
of
Confcience
about things
already.
done
or omitted together
with
the affenions
of
confcience in
the
difcharge
of
that
office.
he
Office
of
C
anfcieíace
about things already
done
or omitted.
1His
path
foure parts
:
a.
To
approve
;
2.
To
abfolve
;
3.
To
miflike
;
4.
To
condemne, according
to the
good
or
evil
of
our
anions
or
omi(fìons.
The judgement
is
not
only
of
the things,
what
they are
;
but whither
they
tend,and
what
they
will
produce.
L
An approving
Confcience.
Ptt'
when
that
which
is
done
is
good,
conicience
approveth
;
as
`Paul
faith, This
is
our rejoycing, the teflimony
of
our
confcience,
2
-Cor.
a .
I
2.
When
he
had
lived
uprightly
and
firi-
cerely,
his
confcience
approved
of
it
;
fo
when
he
had
great
forrow
and
heavineffe
for
his
brethren,
his
confcience
approved
of
it
;
my
confience
bearing
me
ritneffe,
faith
he. So
at
his
latter
end
we may
fee
how
his
con
-
fcience
approved the whole
courfe
of
his
life;
I
have
finifhed
my
courfes
I
have
kept
the
faith,
&c.
there
is
confciences
ap-
probation
155
Rom 6.1.
z Tim.
4,
7.
8.