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

2dly. The Conscience may also challenge a Believer, for some things without ground or unwarrantably; which we may see beside others, in these Three. 1. Conscience may charge a Believer with being an Hypocrite, even as to his State, when he is, it may be, much overcome with the power of unbelief, and hath the evidence of his sincerity much darkened, and seeth many things very contrary thereto, that may seem to speak his being out of Christ, when yet indeed •e is in him: The many sad ⟨p. 87⟩plunges and difficulties that Believers have fallen into' wherein they have been pu• to think so hardly of themselves (and not against the present light of their own Conscience neither) prove that Conscience may speak so and so hardly to them concerning their unsound and Hypocritical State, and yet without ground; especially, when it holdeth not at the Negation, or Suspension of its comfortable Testimony, concerning their gracious State, but positively asse•eth the Believers being in black nature still, and •o in an evil Sta•e. 2d•y. Conscience may challenge for that which is not Sin, and so for that which it hath no ground to challenge for▪ as we may see, 1 Cor. 8. vers. 7. Compared with the penult vers. In the 7. vers. The Apostle sayeth, There is not in every man a like knowledge▪ for some with conscience of the idol eat it, as a thing offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak is defiled; And vers. 12. He saith. That their conscience being weak, is wounded; Their light being weak, and supposing such a thing to be wrong, when it was not so, they were challenged by their Conscience without just ground: Thus it is very ordinarily for young beginners in Religion to be pierced, and wounded with challenges for many things, that these who are more strong, and fully grou•, will not at all be troubled for, neither have ground to be troubled for; as these who could eat every •ort of meat, asking no question for Conscience sake. 3dly. Conscience may challenge for a sin that hath been pardoned, as if it were not pardoned; yea it may challenge for a sin, the pardon whereof hath been intimated; as we may see in David and Job, who were pardoned, and yet under their affliction, the sins of their youth did stare them in the face;