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56
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s
Johns
3.
14.
Luke
2.2.9
A
Treatife
o
f
Conjcience.
proba
-ion
of
him
:
from
henceforth,
faith he, is
laid
up
for
me
a
CroWn
of
righ.
teou
fneJfe
:
there
is
cónfciences
judgement
con-
cerning the
iffue
of
it.
Confcience
fo
approveth
every
particu-
lar goad
action
done
by
a
faithful
man,
that
by it he may
gather
a
teftimony
of the uprightnefle
of
his
heart
:
as
Hezekiah
;
Re-
member,
Lord, that
I
have
walked uprightly
before
thee.
Hereby
we know
that
we
are
tranElated
from
death
to
life,
becaufe
we
love
the
brethren.
Mark;
Love
to Gods
children
is a
fuEftcient
tefti-
mony,
not
only
of
our
uprightneffe
in
that
particular
ad,
but
alto
of
the
fitnplicity
of
our hearts
in
the general, and
that
we
are translated
from death
to
life.So
when
good old
Simeon
had
now
even finifhed
his
days,
fee
what
an
approbation
his
con-
fcience gave
of
him
;
Lord,
noW
letteft
thou
thy
fervant
depart
in peace according
to
thy word. His
confcience
here
gave
a
threefold
()Idled
approbation
of
him.
i.
That
he
had
been
Gods
faithful fervant
;
thy
fervant.
2.
That
he
had walked
its
the
ways
of
true
peace and
comfort,
depart
in
peace. 3.
That
the
promife
of
Gods word
was
his in
particular
;
according
to
thy
word.
a.
II,
eírn
abfolviug
Confcience.
He fecond
part of
the
office
of
confcience
is
to
abfolve
and
acquit, Thus
Samuel pleading
his
innocency,had
his confci-
ence
teftifying
for
him,
Mo.
ofe
oxe
have
I
taken?
or whom
have
I defrauded?
and
his
confcience
abfolved
him
as
clear and free
from thofe
fins.
Thus
alfo rob
;
If
I
have lifted
up
my
hand
a-
gainfl
the
fatherleffe,
when
Ifain
my
help
in
the
gate;
If
I
rejoy-
ced
becaufe
my
wealth
is
great
;
1
f
.I
have
not
given
my
bread
to
the hungry
;
or
if
I
have
rejoyced
at
the
mifery
of
mine enemy:
then
let it
be
thus
and
thus
to
me.His
confcience abfolved him
as
clear
of
thofe
fins.
Nay,
the
confcience
of
a
child
of God doth
not
only abfolve him from
the guilt
of
thofe
fins
which
he
never
committed,
but
allo
from the guilt
of
thofe
fins
which he
hath
committed
againft
God
or
againft man.
It
can
tell
him
he
bath
truly
repented,
and
truly
been humbled,
and
truly got pardon.
Ye
know
David
had committed,
divers
fins
:
yet
when he
had
hum-