Sheffeild - Houston-Packer Collection BJ1471 .S5 1650

~1;6 Aifettn.r to get agoodconfcienct~ Cap. 2 5· be made authemicft andCanunical : But thou muff Iearch-the Scripture/ and J!Ot trufl: thy own ;udgertlent' too far. Keep thyvVatch filll going, as I faid before; butJee thou t~~t it be rlpht f~t, not ~y thy ~eighbo~rs clock, or tliy own gueffe, But by the Sundial. · S clis C~tnoConfcience is indeed.unto a man a· kind . hidJ lihris ofScripture yet at mofi but Apocryphal not debetltr ft· , C . l 'A h l . . h t. : ' des cttteru anontca . pDcryp a It_I s, t ·ere ore not to mrt;ibsu ju- be denied ;-eading ; Carionzc:al it is not 1 there- · diriJttr•Lu, fore not infallible. ther. Nothing 'is to be taken Dog~aticai'!Jfrom ,. the AfOcrypha ( fay we) unleife it be con- . . tained in the Scripture ; So far we receive them as theyconfent withScripture, rt? fur– ther.So far receive thyConfcience,A'"16-.rr~o; it is not, fo as it !houldbeheard for it felf: but it is [ecundari£ authoiit'a fiJ & leOionif, al~ lowed_ it may be; wh~n it ho1ds a confonan j cywith the written word. Tlie·groifeft Ido.i;; latry in the world, faith a leaft£&1 Divihe, 1\uthet· f "rd. is to make thy fel the Idol ;kali~/s bad a 1 Papacy as th:at at Ra~e, to ma .e·a r opt ofthy own Confcie'nce. ThyConfci~n-ce iS'ind:Ccd thy Rule, but it muft then be Reg;tla"/{egula– ta, it may not beRegula Regr4ldnt et primaria, that is, it is a Rule ruled by another; ript gi.; ving Rulu, but when from that otherRule.· Confcience is to every nian nis Lll(P·to himftlf, Rom. 2. t5. but this. law 'is--to Be. Deut 17· written out, as the King was commandea iS~ 1 9. to write his.Copy out of GoJs law"ati_a then to.read therein all thedayesof his-Hfe.Con– fcienfe

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