· The good Confoience Cap. I 9· layhold on her,happie he that retaineth her. - ~ But lofe this, and lofe .thy foul ;_ hate .this Prov.8.39· and love death. Good Ccn fdence is the charge we travell with, whatever d anger we maymeet with inour way, 'live muHnm, ot• fight, ordie, orfly for h, rather thendeliver up fitch a charge. Good Confcience is the Ship in which we embatque and adventure all we have, Credit, State,Libenie.Life,a.nd Soul too, as Noab put all into one B~)ttome, all his Familie; all the Catholike Church; and the Referve ofthe whole world, and all Was fafe. !his Vejfet or Mm fJf war mufi ne"' · ver beyeelded up, btlt rather we mufr imk and perilh in the defenfe of it. Good Con– fcience is our [frong Fort,. which we muft upon no terms capitulate to deli r up to the enemie, but chufe rather to dieupon the ground. · Secondly, look upon Timothie as- a Mi• nifter~and this doth further inform us,That a goodConfcience is thego~d lVlin~{feu grea~ Charge. This charge I commit t'o the:e, Son Timothie, to hold Faith and a good Con• fcience. Thefcare Arma Miniftri, The Mi– nifiers weapons. The Minif.ter ·mufl: 'be a :rtlanofConfcience, and for Crmfdence whol!y. '. 1his is the jl.Jore, he mufl: dallypurge. This thegarden which he mufi drefs aildkeep. The living f. one whichhe mutt hew ndpolit} 1 to make Temples for Chrifr of. This the Sanaum San[lorum.inro which the Gofpel~ Minifier mu!t daily enter. Faith and good Col)icience
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