'7~ "(he fcntpulous Confcience Cap~ I 8! good; yet can no good end alter the nature · • <?fanaltien that is·material!J bad to mend it• T9do the greateft goocl to an evil end \as to pray to bB jeen ofmen) and tQ 9o the leaft evil Job I3·1· to a~tain the befi end ( as to liefor God) ar~ ' alike abominati0n. Our Rule from the Scripture is QOt to do th~ feafi: evil to gain the greatefi beneficiall good, qr to avoidth~ greatefi penall-evil, Rom. 3. S. ·· · . 7-. Laftly, this· fool fo rageth~ and is fo tonfidept, that hedare appeal to God, to , ·patronize his exorbitancies, Jo. 16. 3. They ~hink they did God greatefi fervice when thry did the Church the grea~efr dif-fervic~ in killing the Apoftles. So did Pauls erring Copfcience once fiimulate him, Out of :;:,e.sl / perfecutingthe .Church, Phi!. 3· 6. Je.h,u coulq not look 'Upon it as anyother then .true zeal ' to God, when {le faw himfelf fo violent in rpoting ·9ut Abqbl houfe, and Baal1 priefis, Cnme fee my ze~l for the Lord, faith he. And were there not fourty zealot1fly eprageq againfi Paul:; who hag ruade a religious V<?W, /ilt·~3·12• not to tat again unleft t~ey bad ki:_lled Paul I 92.!!antum 'Religiopottr.itfuadere rnalorum.' wha; · fo evil that ~r.r~meous Confcience will nGt ·~all good? ·It. puts biu~r for fwe@t, an4 d,arkn~fs for light fa~1iliarly. 7. The pext miftake is' of then1 wh(} ~1i~ fta~e a fcrupulom Confcience for ~good (:on{dence, when as all th~ir foruplu are .fibou~minute, and triviall matters , .about 'pcUffer~pt 9r jp1per~inept thipgs 1 , ek~er~ ' .00 l.qg
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