A discourse of conscience wherein is set down the nature, properties, and differences thereofA discourse of conscience wherein is set downe the nature, properties, and differences thereof

Again, laws are either mixed or merely penal. Mix•, are such laws as are of weighty matters, and are propounded in commanding or forbidding •ea••es: and they bind men first of all to obedience, for the necessary good of humane societies and secondly to a punishment, if they obey not, that a supply may be made of the hindrance of the common good. In the breach of this kind of laws, though a man be never so willing to suffer the punishment, yet that will not ⟨p. 69⟩discharge his conscience before God when he of•ds. If a man coin mo•y with this mind to be willing to die when he is convicted, yet that will not free him from a sin in the action, because Gods law binds us not only to subjection i• •earing of punishments, but also to obedience of his •e commandment, it being lawful, though •e should set down no punishment.

Againe, lawes are either mixt or meerely penall. Mix•, are such lawes as are of weightie matters, and are propounded in cōmanding or forbidding •ea••es: and they binde men first of all to obedience, for the necessary good of humane societies and secondly to a punishment, if they obay not, that a supplie may be made of the •indrance of the common good. In the breach of this kind of laws, though a man be neuer so willing to suffer the punishment, yet that will not ⟨p. 69⟩discharge his conscience before God when he of•ds. If a man coin mo•y with this minde to be willing to die when he is con•icted, yet that will not free him from a sinne in the action, because Gods law binds vs not onely to subiection i earing of punishments, but also to obedience of his e commandement, it beeing lawfull, though e should set downe no punishment.