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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
A discourse of conscience wherein is set down the nature, properties, and differences thereof: as also the way to get and keep good conscience.A discourse of conscience wherein is set downe the nature, properties, and differences thereof: as also the way to get and keepe good conscience.
Cambridge: printed by John Legate, 1596Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legate, 1596
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II. Caution. When God gives some particular commandment to his people, dispensing with some other commandment of the moral law: for that time it binds not. For all the 10. commandments must be conceived with this condition, Except god command otherwise. Example. I. The sixth ⟨p. 16⟩commandment is, Thou shalt not kill: but God gives a particular commandment to Abraham. Abraham offer thy son Isaac in sacrifice to me. And this latter commandment at that instant did bind Abraham: & he is therefore commended for his obedience to it. II. And when God commanded the children of Israel to compass Jericho seven days and therefore on the Sabbath, the fourth commandment prescribing the sanctifying of rest on the Sabbath for th•• instant and in that action did not bind conscience.
II. Caution. When God giues some particular cōmandement to his people, dispensing with some other cōmandement of the moral law: for that time it binds not. For all the 10. cōmandements must be cōceiued with this conditiō, Except god cōmand otherwise. Exāple. I. The sixt ⟨p. 16⟩commandement is, Thou shalt not kill: but God giues a particular commandemēt to Abraham. Abrahā offer thy sonne Isaac in sacrifice to me. And this latter cōmandement at that instant did bind Abraham: & he is therefore commended for his obedience to it. II. And when God commanded the children of Israel to compasse Ierico seuen daies and therfore on the Sabbath, the fourth commandement prescribing the sanctifying of rest on the Sabbath for th•• instant and in that action did not bind conscience.
III. Caution. One and the same commandment in some things binds the conscience more straitly, and in doing some other things less▪ […] 6. 10. Do good to all men, but sp […] them that be of the household of faith. Hence it ariseth, that though all sins be mortal and deserve eternal death, yet all are not equal, but some more grievous then others.