'J74 Er.roneo111 Confcience nogoodConfcienct. Cap. I 8.Ifrael. But was it therefo re good,.becaufe he -...... _ - had fuch a perfi.tafion? did not his Realm · firH:, and his houfe at Iaft ·fmart for fuch an errbur, in breaking that Covenant which was at firfr fubdolouf1y obtained,. and in· conilderately made? yet fieri ·non debuit, [afl um valui:. • . . Chap.2. · Muchwas fJ?oken at fidt ofthe evil haunts ofthis Confcience, we may therefoi·e fay the 1efs here, we !hall ondy adde fome of his common Marks whereby it may be difco– vered,; it is impoffible to enumerateall his vVlle5, and Exorbitancies: Some and his chiefamong them wee tball name: . 1. His grand a/nd greatefi miil:ake is to leave the JYord which is the jta1zding Rule to a rectifi ed and judicious Confcknce, and to prefer aTradition,or fome humane invention before Gtn exprefs Precept. Thus did the Pharifees, Matt.15.13. 2. Erroneous Confcience leaveth the rratets ofSifoak, the holy Scriptures, that run foftly, and unitormly, and confrantly, and takes extraordinarie Providence for a Rule in D~ut.q.1. Head ofPrecepu: whereas Gods Providences Dan. 11 .35 bothprofPering and tsdver/e are oft more Pro– batnrie then Dire[/orie. To tempt and trie rather then ro warrant, or difcouragepro– cecdings. But ~rroneous Confcience im– pntes his fi1ccefs to his canfe, and his caufe , profpcring he entitles God's caufe. !his If<~i~36· to. was Rabjbakehs Divinitit>, Am I come hither with(}ut Gcd l God bath faid, Go up againft Jerufalem.
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