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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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Arg. 2. He that can make laws as truly binding conscience as gods laws, can also prescribe rules of Gods worship: because to bind the conscience is nothing else but to cause it to excuse for things that are well done, and therefore truly please God, & to accuse for sin whereby god is dishonoured: but no man can prescribe rules of gods worship; & humane laws as they are humane laws, appoint not the service of God. Isaiah. 29. 13. •••ir fear towards me was taught by the precept of […]. Mat. 15. 9. they worship me in vain teach••• ⟨p. 56⟩doctrines which are the commandments of […]. Papists here make answer, that by laws of men we must understand such laws as be unlawful or unprofitable being made without the authority of God or instinct of his spirit. It is true indeed that these commandments of men were unlawful: but the cause must be considered: they were unlawful not because they commanded that which was unlawful & against the will of God, but because things in themselves lawful were commanded as parts of gods worship. To wash the outward part of the cup or platter, & to 1wash hands before meat; are things in respect of civill use very lawful, & yet are these blamed by Christ & no other reason can be rendered but this, that they were prescribed not as things indifferent or civill, but as matters pertaining to Gods worship. It is not against Gods word in some politic regards to make distinctions of meats, & drinks, & times: yet Paul calls these things doctrines of devils, because they were commanded as things wherein God would be worshipped.
Arg. 2. He that can make laws as truly binding conscience as gods lawes, can also prescribe rules of Gods worship: because to bind the consciēce is nothing els but to cause it to excuse for things that are well done, and therefore truely please God, & to accuse for sinne wherby god is dishonoured: but no man can prescribe rules of gods worship; & humane lawes as they are humane laws, appoint not the seruice of God.