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

When sin is committed, Conscience convinceth and challengeth; when this doth not the turn, upon the back thereof cometh the threatening, and some fits of terror; sometimes ⟨p. 110⟩the threatening is conditional, sometimes the peremptory certification is added; sometimes again the impression of the threatening will be more sensible, sometimes more insensible: When Conscience giveth advice, and dictateth from the Word, it maketh use of the Commands; but in the sense we are now speaking of, it maketh use of the threatenings; As for instance, It's said in the third Command; The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain; Now for any degree of this guilt, Conscience challengeth, and when that is slighted, thereupon Conscience goeth on, and maketh the threatening terrible; for challenges bear in convictions of sin, and convictions represent the threatenings as more terrible; and threatenings bear in the apprehensions of wrath; and hence is the exercise of Conscience in some that wakeneth, and raiseth a terrible storm in it. A 4th. Way, How Conscience giveth it's answer, and maketh it's mind known, is by an inconceivable inward calmness, peace, serenity, and tranquillity in the Soul; So that when a man reflecteth on his doing of such and such a thing, and comparing it with the Rule of the Word, findeth it agreeable to the same, all his terrors evanish, his mind is calmed, and he findeth much sweet Peace, Delight and Acquiescence in the thing; this is nothing else, but Conscience giving it's answer: all which had great need to be carefully compared with the Word of God, and that his mind therein be very clear; because, as there may be much bastard peace on the one hand, so there may be many groundless challenges on the other, which are not to be taken for the language of Conscience.

When sin is committed, Conscience convinceth and challengeth; when this doth not the turn, upon the back thereof cometh the threatning, and some fits of terror; sometimes ⟨p. 110⟩the threatning is conditional, sometimes the peremptory certification is added; sometimes again the impression of the threatning will be more sensible, sometimes more insensible: When Conscience giveth advice, and dictateth from the Word, it maketh use of the Commands; but in the sense we are now speaking of, it maketh use of the threatnings; As for instance, It's said in the thrid Command; The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain; Now for any degree of this guilt, Conscience challengeth, and when that is slighted, thereupon Conscience goeth on, and maketh the threatning terrible; for challenges bear in convictions of sin, and convictions represent the threatnings as more terrible; and threatnings bear in the apprehensions of wrath; and hence is the exercise of Conscience in some that wakneth, and raiseth a terrible storm in it. A 4th. Way, How Conscience giveth it's answer, and maketh it's mind known, is by an inconceivable inward calmness, peace, serenity, and tranquillity in the Soul; So that when a man reflecteth on his doing of such and such a thing, and comparing it with the Rule of the Word, findeth it agreeable to the same, all his terrors evanish, his mind is calmed, and he findeth much sweet Peace, Delight and Acquiesence in the thing; this is nothing else, but Conscience giving it's answer: all which had great need to be carefully compared with the Word of God, and that his mind therein be very clear; because, as there may be much bastard peace on the one hand, so there may be many groundlesse challenges on the other, which are not to be taken for the language of Conscience.