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A
Treat
fe of
Confcience.
wench
not
the
Spirit
;
fo
quench
not
confcience.
I have
hitherto
(hewed
you
that
every man
hath
a
confci-
ence, and
the
reafons
why
God
hath
given
us
a
confcience,
the
light
that
it
aéeth
by,
the
offices
of
it,
and the
affeCIions
of
it.
Now
from
all
thefe
proceed
to
other
adjuncts
of
confcience
:
I.
A
quiet
confcience
:
2.
An unquiet confcience.
A
quiet Conf
cience.
Oncerning
a
quiet
confcience
three things
are
to
be
cor-
udered:
r.
What
a
quiet
confcience
is;
2.
How
it
differeth
from
that
quiet confcience
which
is
in
the
wicked
;
3.
The
ex-
amination whether we
have
this quiet
confcience
or
no,
I.
For
the brit, What
a
quiet
confcience
is
;
It
is
that
which
neither doth nor
can
accufe us,
but
giveth
an
honourable tefti-
mony
of
us
in
the
courfe
of
onr
lives
and
converfations
ever
unce we
were
regenerate
(I
put
that
in
too
:
for,
I,
we
do not
begin
to
live
till we
be
regenerate,
and
2.
we can never
have
a
true quiet
confcience
till
then.)
Such
a
quiet
confcience
had
goodObadiah;
I
feare
the
Lordfrom
my
youth, faith
his
confci-
ence
:
This
was
a
very
honourable teftimony
that
his
confci-
ence
gave
him.
Such
a
quiet
confcience
had Enoch
:
Before
his
tran
flation,
he
received
this
tell-
imony,th4t
he
pleafed
God.Haymo
faith,this teltimony
was
the
teitimony
.of
Scripture,
Gen.
5.24.
where
it
is
Paid
that
he
W
lked with
coda
This
is
true
;
but this
is
not
all
:
The
text
faith
not
there
was
fuch a
teftimony given
of
him,
but
he
had it
:
and
that
before
his
tranflation; but
that
before
his
tranftation; but the teftimony
of
Mofes
was
after
his
tranflation
:
Therefore
it
was
the teftimony
of
his confcience
that
bore
witneffe
within
that
he pleafed
God.
So
that
this
is a
quiet
conic ience, which
neither
doth nor
can accufe us,
but
giveth
an
honourable teftimony
of
us
in
the whole
courfc
of
our
life and
converfation.
Now to
fuch
a
quiet
confcience
there
be
three things
necefIary
:
r.
Uprightneffe,
2.
Purity,
3.
Affu-
rance
of
Gods
love and
favour.
Fiat,
Upriighnef
e
is
when
a
man
is
obedient
indeed.
Many
will
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