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

For when it speaketh a right, it speaketh always according to the mind of God, and what he says is wrong or right, it says so of it also; So in the epistle to Ephesus, Rev. 2. As the Lord chargeth them, that they are fallen from their first love, so doth Conscience; yet as he telleth them, that there is something right, in as far as they had laboured for his names sake, and hated the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which he hated, &c. So doth Conscience also testify the same; and so, in all the rest of the Epistles to these seven Churches; as God is impartial in his Testimony, so is Conscience when right. 2ly. Ye would advert to the ground of Conscience, it's speaking, or to that on account of which it testifies for you, or against you; for, as in our forbearing of one Action and in our choosing of another, we are to forbear, or to choose, and proceed, according as Conscience holdeth ou• clear light, and reason for it; So upon the back of any Action, or Duty performed, when we go to reflect, we would try the ground, whether of Conscience it's challenge, or of it's good Testimony; If it challenge, and accuse, try well whether it be indeed a sin, for which it doth so; if it approve, and speak peace, try on what ground it doth so, Conscience will some way testify of the Action, but ye would try, if it be sinful, or not according to the Word of God; Which supposeth knowledge in the thing, and of the mind of God concerning it; wherein any, especially more considerable defect, even in conscientious and •ender Christians, is waited with its own prejudice; Hence it came to pass (as the Apostle gives us an account, Rom. 14.) ⟨p. 214⟩that many of the primitive Christians, through the weakness of their knowledge, were made to judge such and such things to be wrong, as the eating of such and such meats, (their Conscience judging according to their knowledge) when yet indeed the matter was not wrong; though (as the Apostle there sayeth) To him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean; Therefore we would be the more holily jealous over our selves, least we found our peace on a deluded Testimony of our Conscience; And for preventing of that, we would put •t to give its reason for, and evidence of what it testifieth, for Conscience being but a subordinate Judge, we must go, to the law and to the testimony, and see if it speaketh according to that;