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A
T"reatife
of
Con,
(cience.
J
57
humbled
his foul
before
God,
and
obtained
pardon,
his
con-
fciencetelleth
him
as
much,and
abfolveth him,
71
left,
the
Lord,
PIi,o3.3
o
my
foul,
&c.
Who
forgiveth
411
thy
fins.
Nay,
though
a
child
of
God
have many infirmities
daily and hourly, yet
his
confcience
doth
abfolve
him
:
it-is
no
more
I
that
do
it,
faith
his
confcience,
but
finne
that
dd'elleth in
me.
If
1
diftruft,
it
is
no
morel;
for
I
fight
againft
it
:
If
I
be
overtaken
by
any weakneffe,
it is
no
more
I
;
for
I
laboured againft
it,
and
do
belbail
it.
III.
A mi
a
in
confcience.
g
THe
third
part
of
confciences
office
in
things
done,
is
to
miflike
if
we
have
done
ill,
There
be
imperfeaions
in
the
heft obedience
of
Gods
deareft
frrvants
:
what
I
do
I
allow
not,
faith
`Paul:
His
confcience mifliked
fomething done
by
him.
But
that
miflike
of
confcience which
now I
fpeak
of,
is
of
things
that
are ill
done, that
is,
not
done
in
truth
and fincerity.
thus
it
is
in all
that
are
not
renewed
by
the Holy
Ghoft
:
The
office
of
their
confcience
indeed
is
to
miflike
what they do
:
Rom.
7.
When
they have
prayed, their
confcience
can miflike
it,
and
15.
fay,
I
have not
prayed
n'ith
a
heavenly
mind,
a
holy
heart: When
they
have been
at
a
Sacrament
,
confcience can truly
miflike
it,
and
fay ,
I
have
not
been
a
fit
gueft
at
Chrifts Table, &c.
When
they
are
crofl'ed
and
tempted,
their
confciences
truly
miflike
their
carriage
,
and
fay,
I
do
not
fight
and
re/ift
,
but
rm.
dily and
willingly
yield
to
every
invitation
to
evil.
Do
ye
not
think
that
jeroboams confcience mifliked
his
altering
Gods
worfhip,
his
innovating religion,
his
making
Ifrael
to
finne?
do not
ye
think
his
confcience mifliked
him
for
thefe
things
?
Do
not
ye
think
that Nabals
confcience mifliked
his
griping
?
and Doegs
confcience mifliked
his
flandering
?
and Pafhurs
confcience mifliked his
oppofing and
mifiifing Ieremie
?
and
the old Prophets
confcience mifliked
his
lying
?
Who
would
have
thought
but Balaam
Paid
well, Whatfoever
the
Lord
faith
unto
me
that
will
I
(peak
,
and,
I
cannot go
beyond
the
command-
ment
of
the
Lord
to
do
lefe
or
more
; no,
not
for
Balaks
houfe
full
ofgold;
who would
have
thought
but
that
this
was
well
Paid
yet
his
own
confcience could
not
chufe
but
miflike
it,
being
not
I
fpoken