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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. 3. God hath given a liberty to the conscience whereby it is freed from all laws of his own whatsoever, excepting such laws & doctrines as are necessary to salvation. Col. 2. 10. If ye be dead with Christ, ye are free from the elements of the world. Gal. 5. 1. Stand ye in the liberty where with ⟨p. 57⟩Christ hath freed you, and be not again entangled with the yoke of bondage. Now, if humane laws made after the grant of this liberty, bind conscience property, then must they either take away the foresaid liberty, or diminish the same; but that they cannot do: for that which is gram ted by an higher authority, namely God himself, cannot be revoked or repealed by the inferior authority of any man. It is answered, that this freedom is only from the bondage of sin, from the curse of the moral law, from the ceremonial and judicial laws of Moses, and not from the laws of our superiors. And I answer again, that it is absurd to think that God gives us liberty in conscience from any of his own laws, and yet will have our consciences still to remain in subjection to the laws o• sinful men.
Arg. 3. God hath giuen a liberty to the conscience whereby it is freed frō all lawes of his own whatsoeuer, excepting such lawes & doctrines as are necessary to salvation. Col. 2. 10. If yee be dead with Christ, ye are free frō the elemēts of the world. Gal. 5. 1. Standye in the liberty wher with ⟨p. 57⟩Christ hath freedyou, and be not againe intangled with the yoke of bondage. Nowe, if humane lawes made after the graunt of this libertie, bind conscience property, then must they either take away the foresaid libertie, or diminish the same; but that they cannot doe: for that which is grā ted by an higher authority, namely God himself, cannot be reuoked or repealed by the inferiour authoritie of any man. It is answered, that this freedome is onely from the bondage of sinne, from the curse of the morall law, from the ceremoniall and iudiciall lawes of Moses, and not from the lawes of our superiours. And I answer againe, that it is absurd to thinke that God giues vs libertie in conscience from any of his owne laws, and yet will haue our consciences stil to remaine in subiection to the laws o sinnefull men.