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A
7'
reatife
of
Confcience.
`fpoken
in
fincerity. Many
a
man
hath
gone
for
a
ChriPtian
twenty or thirty
years, and
every
one liketh him,and
yet
it
may
be
his conic ience
bath
difliked
him
all
the
while.
Iv,
A
condemning Confcience,
He
fourth
part
of
confciences
office
in
this behalf,
is
to
condemne
if
we have
done
evil
and
contrary
to
Gods
law. Confcience
hath
an office
not
only
to
miflike
us
but
aft.°
Gen.
3,
7.
to
condemn
us
:
nay, it will
haffen
more
to
condemn
us
then
God. We
fee
it
in
Adam
:
when
Adam had finned,
his
confci-
ence
condemned
him
before
God
did
:
he knew
that
he was
naked,
that
he
had made
his foul
fhamefully naked
;
his
Con-
fcience
condemned
him
for
an
Apoftate before
the Lord
came
to
paffe
fentence upon him.
Nay,it
condemneth
us
oftner
then
God
;
God
will condemn
a
firmer
but once
for
all,
vit.
at the
Taff
day
;
but
confcìence
condemneth
him many
thoufand times
before
that.
Many men
and women who
do
feem
godly
in
the
worlds
eyes,
God
knoweth
how
many
of
them
have
condemn.
ing confciences
in
their
bofomeF,
for
all
their
civilities,
and
formalities,
and
crying
God
mercie, and patched
up hopes
;
many
who
would
fay
that
man were uncharitable
who fhould
condemne them
for
fuch
and
fuch;
who
(it
may be
)
find
con-
ícience
within
fo
uncharitable, and
faying
plainly;
Ye
arefo
;
Tit.
3.11.
like
the
confcìence
of
Pauls heretick, who
is Paid
to
be
condem-
ned
of
him(el
f.
Vfe,
s.
I. This ferveth
for the
praife
of
the
juRice
of
God
:
That
he
may be
¡Lift
when he
judgeth; the
Lord
needeth
no
other
wit
-
neffe
againft
us
but
our own
confciences
:
they
make
way for
F:oan.a
I
5
the
juft
judgment
of
God.
Ye
may
fee
this
in
this
portion
of
Scripture
which we have
in
hand
;
wherein
is
(hewed
both that
God
hath
appointed
a
day
wherein
he will judge
the world,
veri.
t
6.
In
the
day
When
God
fhalljudge thefecrets
of
all
men ac-
cording
to my
CJofpel:
and then
in-
the
verle
going
before the
Apoftie fheweth
that
now
in
the
mean while every
mans
con-
ícience
maketh
way
for
this
¡Lift
judgement
of
God;
their
con
-
fcience