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The 3d. Use, Is of Exhortation, to advert more to this Testimony of Conscience, in performing Duties; O! Learn to reflect on your selves in every thing, and to ask your selves what ye are doing, that ye may know, if ye be right or wrong; if wrong, that ye may take with it, and be humbled for it; if right, that ye may be comforted in it: We conceive this would be a notable guard to tenderness, and keeping communion with God; and a sovereign help to prevent many sins, and much hypocrisy in our way of doing things; even to be taking exact notice, if we be indeed doing that which we profess to be doing, if we be speaking to Edification, if we be praying in earnest, when we pretend to be praying▪ &c.

The 3d. Use, Is of Exhortation, to advert more to this Testimony of Conscience, in performing Duties; O! Learn to reflect on your selves in every thing, and to ask your selves what ye are doing, that ye may know, if ye be right or wrong; if wrong, that ye may take with it, and be humbled for it; if right, that ye may be comforted in it: We conceive this would be a notable guard to tendernesse, and keeping communion with God; and a soveraign help to prevent many sins, and much hipocrisie in our way of doing things; even to be taking exact notice, if we be indeed doing that which we professe to be doing, if we be speaking to Edification, if we be praying in earnest, when we pretend to be praying▪ &c.

2ly. Observe, That when Conscience is well satisfied in a particular Action, or Duty▪ it can signify it's sense thereof to the man that performeth it, and speaketh a ⟨p. 172⟩good word for him; This is the thing that Pauls Con▪ science doth here; he is sincere in the thing that he asserts, and it beareth him witness of his sincerity, when he adverteth to it: First, I say, Conscience can signify it's mind and sense of a particular Action, or Duty, if it be well pleased, and can speak a good word for the man; it can signify it's mind at any time, but when it is well pleaed, it signifies, it by testifying for the man: And 2ly I say, That not only does it testify it's satisfaction with the Action, but with every thing in it, when there is a right end, a right motive, and a right manner of performance, when Christ is duly respected in it, and made use of for strength and acceptance. And 3ly. I add this, If men advert to it, and if it be asked; because it hath something to say always, yet men will not hear, nor know what it sayeth, except they advert well, and reflect, and take good heed to it.