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

Secondly, we learn that it is not presumption for any man to believe the remission of his own sins: for to do the will of God to which we are bound, is not to presume: now it is the will of God to which he hath ⟨p. 36⟩bound us in conscience, to believe the remission of our own sins: and therefore rather […] to do it is pious disobedience.

Secondly, we learne that it is not presumption for any man to beleeue the remission of his owne sinnes: for to doe the will of God to which we are bound, is not to presume: now it is the will of God to which he hath ⟨p. 36⟩bound vs in conscience, to belo•ue the remi••ion of our owne sinnes: and therefore rather 〈…〉 to doe it is p•ous disobedience.

Thirdly, we are here to ••rke and to re• ber with care, the foundation of the […] certain of mans salo•ion For if man be bound in conscience first to give assent to the Gosp•t and secondly to apply […] to himself by true faith, then without doubt a man by faith may be certainly persuaded of his own […] and salvation in this […] without any extraordinary revelation: Gods commandments being in this and the like case• possible. For commandments are either Legal or Evangelical. Legal show us ••t disease, but give us no remedy: and the perfect doing of them according to the intent of the law giver, by reason of mans weakness and through mans default, is impossible in this world. As for Evangelical commandments, they have this privilege, that they may and can be performed according to the intention of the Lawgiver in this life: because with the commandment is joined the inward operation of the spirit, to enable us to effect the duty commanded: and the will of God is not to require absolute perfection at our hands in the Gospel as in the law: but rather to qualify the rigour of the law by the satisfaction