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

Because this is, (as we said) so tender and tickle a subject, and because there is so great need to be clear in the true meaning of it, we have been constrained beyond our purpose, to propose, and answer several Questions, and to move and dissolve several Doubts, concerning it, to make the fairer and easier access to the Use; It being so very ordinary for people to think that they have a good Conscience, when indeed they have it not; and so to baffle (to speak so) and abuse Conscience (that should be the most powerful provoker to a tender and circumspect walk) as to make it a ground of security and un-tenderness.

Because this is, (as we said) so tender and tickle a subject, and because there is so great need to be clear in the true meaning of it, we have been constrained beyond our purpose, to propose, and answer several Questions, and to move and dissolve several Doubts, concerning it, to make the fairer and easier access to the Use; It being so very ordinary for people to think that they have a good Conscience, when indeed they have it not; and so to baffle (to speak so) and abuse Conscience (that should be the most powerfull provoker to a tender and circumspect walk) as to make it a ground of security and un-tenderness.

We spoke a little the last occasion to that Question, whether not only un-regenerate men may think that to be Conscience▪ which is not? But also whether it be incident even to Believers themselves to think, and that ⟨p. 71⟩with some sort of persuasion (I will not say with such grossness of delusion as may be in others) that they are right when yet they are wrong? In answer to which we showed you, they might, and instanced several Cases, wherein.

We spoke a little the last occasion to that Question, whether not only un-regenerat men may think that to be Conscience▪ which is not? But also whether it be incident even to Believers themselves to think, and that ⟨p. 71⟩