Hence it followeth that a man may doe a∣ny thing beside humane lawes and constitutions without breach of conscience. For if he shall o∣mit the doing of any law I. without hindrance of the ende and particular considerations, for which the law was made: II. without offence giuing as much as in him lieth: III. without contempt of him that made the law, he is not to be accused of sinne. Example. In time of warre, the magistrate of a citie commands that no man shall open the gates: the end is, that the citie and euery member thereof may be in safetie. Now it falls out that certaine citizens beeing vpon oc∣casion without the citie, are pursued by the ene∣mie and in daunger of their lifes. Herupon some man within openeth the gate to rese them. The question is, whether he haue sinned or no. And the truth is, he hath not: because he did not hinder the ende of the law, but rather further it, and that without scandal to men, or contempt to the magistrate.And this stands euen by the equitie of Gods word. God made a law, that the priests onely should eate of the shewbread: now Dauid being no priest, did vpon vrgent occasion eate of it without sinne. If this be true in Gods law, then it may also be true in the lawes of men, that they may in some cases be omitted without 0