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

The First Use of this Doctrine serves for exhorting, and beseeching you all to study, and be in love with a good Conscience; its unknown, what solid sweet peace and joy ye may have by it; O! Endeavour through Grace, to be so tender, straight, and upright in your aim to have a good Conscience in all things, that when ye reflect on your way, ye may have its good Testimony; There will most certainly be more peace found in this, then in the greatest abundance of all earthly comforts, though combined together at their very best; Can any of these calm a mans mind in a storm of challenges for sin, and of the terrors of death? Do they not often rather leave men in greater anxiety, and perplexity, then if they had never enjoyed them? Yea, often in the very mean time of these enjoyments, and in the midst of the carnal joy and laughter that results from them, the heart is sad, through the want of the Testimony of a good Conscience. Therefore we exhort you, in the Name of the Lord, as ye would have a pleasant and cheerful life, and a comfortable and joyful death, labour to have a good Conscience in all things, that when ye reflect on it, it may testify for, and speak good of, and to you; This (as Solomon says) Is a continual feast in Life, and a sovereign cordial against the terror of Death.

The First Use of this Doctrine serves for exhorting, and beseeching you all to study, and be in love with a good Conscience; its unknown, what solid sweet peace and joy ye may have by it; O! Endeavour through Grace, to be so tender, straight, and upright in your aim to have a good Conscience in all things, that when ye reflect on your way, ye may have its good Testimony; There will most certainly be more peace found in this, then in the greatest abundance of all earthly comforts, though combined together at their very best; Can any of these calm a mans mind in a storm of challenges for sin, and of the terrours of death? Do they not often rather leave men in greater anxiety, and perplexity, then if they had never injoyed them? Yea, often in the very mean time of these injoyments, and in the midst of the carnal joy and laughter that results from them, the heart is sad, through the want of the Testimony of a good Conscience. Therefore we exhort you, in the Name of the Lord, as ye would have a pleasant and cheerful life, and a comfortable and joyful death, labour to have a good Conscience in all things, that when ye reflect on it, it may testify for, and speak good of, and to you; This (as Solomon sayes) Is a continual feast in Life, and a soveraign cordial against the terrour of Death.