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For the 1. What this answer of Conscience is? I answer in short, That it is distinct from a mans inclination, from his affections, and from his naked Judgement or Light; There is something in a mans natural inclination, ⟨p. 108⟩that is ready to sway him to this or that, but that is not Conscience; There is also something in a mans affections, as in that which he feareth, or desireth, and loveth, that may sway him; neither is that Conscience but often that which is contrary to Conscience; There is likewise something in mens Light▪ from which al•o Conscience differeth; because an natural, and un-regenerate man, that maketh no Conscience of his ways, may, notwithstanding have a light in his Judgement, by which he is put to come to Church, an• possibly to pray, and do other Duties; and yet it may be from no answer, or dictate of Conscience, that he doth these Duties: We conceive therefore that this answer of Conscience, is something different from, and beyond either Inclination, Affection, or bare Light; and that it is Light and Conscience going jointly together▪ or some conclusion drawn from the Word (for we are speaking here of Conscience as it is in people living in the Church, under the Ministry of the Word) that such a thing is Duty, and Conscience thereupon putting on to it, or a conclusion drawn from the Word, that such a thing is a •in, and Conscience thereupon deterring from it; Thus it differeth from Light simply considered, in as far as it is a Conclusion drawn from such grounds as the Judgement, or Light in the Judgement layeth down to, or before it; It is an answer that not only hath Truth in it, which may be from light; but its an answer as having a truth in it that is drawn from such a ground warranting such and such a practice; Conscience looking on it, as Gods mind, for directing it in it's Duty, and on that account putting on to it.

For the 1. What this answer of Conscience is? I answer in short, That it is distinct from a mans inclination, from his affections, and from his naked Judgement or Light; There is something in a mans natural inclination, ⟨p. 108⟩