Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace…

It is made quickly to loath and con•emn it self for sin▪ and so Conscience and the man agree well together, when Conscience sayeth to him▪ thou art a Sinner, thou ar• lost, Justice must be satisfied, and thou canst not do it, he sayeth so likewise. ⟨p. 43⟩3. When challenges put yet further at him, and pursue him yet harder and closer, the good Conscience makes him •ee to the Blood of Christ, and sets him a seeking of pardon from God, in the Court of Grace, when the man is some way condemned in the Court of his own Conscience, and then he obtaineth peace, even in the Court of Conscience; For when God speaks peace in and through Jesus Christ, the Conscience also speaks peace; and thus though the man hath not a good Conscience in a Law▪sense (as I said before) yet in a Gospel-sense he hath; and he mindeth to keep friendship with God, and with his Conscience, though he cannot quiet, pacify and satisfy it in a Legal way, yet in a Gospel way he may: And this is even it, that the Saints have in their appealing to their Conscience, for the great ground of their peace, viz. The sincerity of their Practice, and their fleeing to Christs Blood, to the Blood of sprinkling, for quieting their Conscience in the crowd of challenges for their short comings and failings in practice, and that very warrantably from the Word of God; whoever sincerely take this way, though they have challenges of Conscience, they have yet notwithstanding a good Conscience: Such a Conscience challengeth by the Law, yet absolveth by the Gospel; challengeth on account of the Rebellion of the Law in the Members, and yet absolveth in respect of the Law in the mind; it condemneth the man as loathsome in himself, and in his own duties and righteousness, and yet absolveth him as founding his peace on Christ, and sinking and putting to silence all challenges, and accusations in that Blood of Sprinkling, that speaking Blood that hath a cry to out-cry the loudest cries of the most clamorous and guilty Conscience: And what can be justly said against this, since Christ's Righteousness is perfect, and Gods promise faithful, and Christs Blood of force and efficacy to quiet and give the answer of a good Conscience.