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Cor,4.4
Hcb, 10.2
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Treatife
of
Confttencee
will
be
obedient,but
they
are
obedient,not
indeed,
not
humbled
indecd,not
reform'd
indeed.What
it
is
tobe
obedient
indeed,fee
exod.
2
3.
a
2.But
if
thou
(halt
indeed
obey
his
voyce,
and
do
all that
I
Jhall(peak,
&c.Mark
;that
is
obedience indeed when we
do
al
that
God
fpeaketh,and
are
obedient
in all
things. This
is
an
upright
confcience,when the
heart
is
bent
to
obedience
in
all things.An
example
we
meet
with
in Paul
;
I
have
lived
in
all
good
confci-
ence
before God
untill
this day.
His confcience
could
not
accufe
him
of
any
root of
wickednelfe and
corruption
allowed
and
cherifhed in him
:
That
is
an
upright
confcience.
Haft thou
fuch
a
confcience
as
this,
My
confcience
can
truly
bear
witnefe
there
is
finne
I
favour
my
fel
fe
in
allow my
felfe
in,
but
condemne
all,
rive
againft
all.
i
hus
David proveth
that
his
confcience
was
upright
;
If
I
regard
iniquity
in
my
heart,
the
Lord
Will
not
hear
my
prayer. The
regarding
of
any
iniquity will
not
Rand
with
uprightnefl'e.
A
fecond
thing
required
to
a
true quiet
confcience
is
purity.
Though
our
heart
be
upright
and
(land generally
bent
to
the
Lords
will,
yet
if
we be guilty
of
Come
particular
finne
this
will
hinder
the
quiet
of
our
confcience.
Therefore
faith
Paul,
I
know
nothing
by
my
felf; that
is,
nothing
Do
accufe
me;
no
cor-
ruption,
no
root
of
unbeliefe
reigning
in
him
:
Infirmities he
had many
,
and
frailties,
he
had many, and
he
knew
them,
but
he
knew
nothing
to
accufe
him.
Whatever
was amiffe in
him,
his confcience
told
-him
he ufed all
holy means
againft it.
If
thy
confcience can truly
fay
thus
alfo
of
thee,
then
haft
thou
a
truly
quiet confcience.
Thirdly,
Aífurance
of
Gods
love,
favour,
and
pardon.
Though
we
have
fallen
into great
finnes,
yet our
confciences
may have
quiet
if
we
can
be
truly
affured
of
Gods
love and
fa-
vour in
the
pardon
of
them.
The
Apoftle
proveth
that
the
fa.
criflees
of
the law
could not purge
away finne;
but
onely Chrifts
bloud
can
do
it.
His
argument to prove it
is
this.
Becaufe
thofe
facrifices
could
not
free
a
man
from having
confcience
of
fanne;
they could
not
purge
the
confcience
:
but
Chritts
bloud can
:
After
affurance
of
Pardon
in
Chrif}s
bloud
confcience can
no
more