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A second Case is, When men, in seeking the Answer of their Conscience, do bound and limit it; They either do not fairly and fully propose the Case to Conscience, or they come not to it with an absolute submission▪ (supposing it to be throughly informed by the Word) concerning the thing they would have clearness in; and therefore they take the Answer in part, or but a part of the Answer, and suppose the rest, or leave it to Conscience to be determined; as when men first resolve to do such or such a thing, and leave only the timing of it to their Conscience; Here the Conscience may be limited, and made indistinct in it's Answer, because it is prejudged and left free; It might possibly have been somewhat, not al•gether unlike this that was in the rest of the Tribes of Israel, their asking of God about the War against Benjamin, Judges, 20. 18. Where they do not say at first, shall we go up, or shall we for-bear? but first they say, who shall go up?

A second Case is, When men, in seeking the Answer of their Conscience, do bound and limit it; They either do not fairly and fully propose the Case to Conscience, or they come not to it with ane absolute submission▪ (supposing it to be throughly informed by the Word) concerning the thing they would have clearness in; and therefore they take the Answer in part, or but a part of the Answer, and suppose the rest, or leave it to Conscience to be determined; as when men first resolve to do such or such a thing, and leave only the timeing of it to their Conscience; Here the Conscience may be limited, and made indistinct in it's Answer, because it is prejudged and left free; It might possibly have been somewhat, not al•gether unlike this that was in the rest of the Tribes of Israel, their asking of God about the War against Benjamin, Iudges, 20. 18. Where they do not say at first, shall we go up, or shall we for-bear? but first they say, who shall go up?