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

For the 1. Needeth it proof, That men will sin against Conscience, and be careless to keep a good Conscience? 1. I would pose, put you to it, and ask you, whither is there sin in you or not? And if sin be in you, then sure Conscience is offended. 2dly. I would ask you, Is there not sin against Light? Did ye never that which ye knew to be sin? Do you not know Fornication, Drunkenness, Tippling, Lying, Swearing, Vanity of thoughts, Idle words, Neglect of Prayer, want of Seriousness in it, &c. to be sins? And do you not often go about duty, knowing your selves to be under the guilt of these Sins. 3dly. I would ask, Sin ye never against Convictions of your Conscience? According to that word, Rom. 1. ult. Who knowing the judgement of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death yet not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. Will any of you dare to say, but that you have been convinced, that Drunkenness, and Tippling, or the like, was a Sin? and yet ye have gone on in it. over that Conviction. 4ly. Have you not been challenged for sin? And yet ye have gone over the belly of these challenges of Conscience, even when it hath been presently stinging for such a sin: And on the contrary▪ when Conscience hath been putting at you, and poussing you to such and such a duty, and saying, It is no time now to put it off, and shift it, yet, have not these suggestions and challenges been slighted, and these poussings to duty, smothered, and the Spirit grieved? 5thly. Have there been ⟨p. 91⟩no engagements sometimes come under, to abstain from such and such a sin, and to perform such and such duties? And have not all these engagements been broken? Even merely natural men have come this length, as to come under such engagements, who yet have slidden back from them, and violated them grossly. 6ly. Have ye not had your own kind of spiritual exercises? Your outcryings under the sense of sin, and apprehensions of wrath in fits of sickness, or under hard and heavy Crosses; and yet notwithstanding, have you not continued in the same sins? And if all these be clear, can ye deny that ye have sinned against Conscience? Or dare ye say, that ye have endeavoured to keep a good Conscience, in all things? I grant that people fa•l into sin divers ways;

For the 1. Needeth it proof, That men will sin against Conscience, and be careless to keep a good Conscience? 1. I would pose, put you to it, and ask you, whither is there sin in you or not? And if sin be in you, then sure Conscience is offended. 2dly. I would ask you, Is there not sin against Light? Did ye never that which ye knew to be sin? Do you not know Fornication, Drunkenness, Tipling, Lying, Swearing, Vanity of thoughts, Ide words, Neglect of Prayer, want of Seriousness in it, &c. to be sins? And do you not often go about duty, knowing your selves to be under the guilt of these Sins. 3dly. I would ask, Sin ye never against Convictions of your Conscience? According to that word,