The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

2. Direction.

2. When thou hast thus furnished thy self, thy next work must be, to set thy conscience on work, and reflect upon thy own heart, and upon the motions of thy will, and compare thy self with the word of God. The former ⟨p. 317⟩sent you to study the book of Gods word, this calleth upon you to study the book of your own hearts. The other is a direct act of the understanding, this is a reflect act to make a judgement of thy state; whether there be a transcript of those things in thine own heart; for every believer hath the Gospel-laws written upon the table of his soul by the spirit of God. Assurance cannot be had ordinarily, without the examination of our own hearts, for assurance is the certain knowledge of the conclusion drawn from the premises, one out of the scripture, the other by the reflect act of the understanding, or conscience, thus; He that believeth and is justified, shall be saved; that is the word of God: then by the search of his own heart, he must be able to say; But I believe and am justified, and from these two, doth result this assurance that he may conclude; Therefore I shall be saved. Luke 15.8. The woman that had lost a piece of silver, did light a candle, and swept her house and thereby found what she had lost. Conscience is this candle, the scripture is the fire at which it must be lighted, and self-examination, is the broom whereby the heart is swept, and so the state of the soul which before was not discerned, comes to be discovered.

2. When thou hast thus furnished thy self, thy next work must bee, to set thy conscience on work, and reflect upon thy own heart, and upon the m•tions of thy will, and compare thy self with the word of God. The former