was a thing indifferent, and therfore onscience told them that they might doe i and yet neuer∣thelesse fornication in them was a sinne becaus conscience erred in her iudgement. And euill r∣maines euill, though conscience y the contra∣rie a thousand times.The third. What soeuer is doneErronious conscience bindeth. For he that iudgeth a thing to be euill. if he doe it, hath sinned, as much as in hi lieth.against con∣science, though it erre & be deceiued, it sinne in the der. Example. An Anabaptist holding it vt∣terly vnlawfull to sweare, is brought before a magistrate; and vrged either through feare or so cause, takes an oath & that against his one conscience: now the question is, whether he hath sinned or no. Ans. He hath indeed sinned not so much because he hath taken an oath, for that is the ordinance of God: but because he hath taken an oath in a bad manner, that is, against his conscience, and therefore not in faith.Thus it is manifest that conscince beares a great stroke in all things that are to be saide or done. And hereby we are aduertised of many things. First, if a thing done without good di∣rection of cōscience be a sinne, then much more that which is done without direction of Gods word is a flatte sinne: for without direction of Gods word conscience can giue no good dire∣ction. And if God will holde that for a sinne which is done without direction of his word, 0