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

For further clearing of the Doctrine, and enlarging of its •se, and for helping you to judge aright of Conscience its Testimony, in your searching after it; We shall propose some Questions, from the requisite qualifications of a well grounded, and refreshing Testimony of a mans […] for him; which must all be answered in some measure affirmatively, and these Answers solidly, and well proved, and made ou•, before you can quietly and confidently rest on Consciences Testimony, as to any part or piece of your way; whether it be in reference to the Sanctification of the Sabbath, to conferring on a spiritual subject, to prayer, to praise, to reading, to hearing, to eating, to drinking, to buying, to selling, to building, to planting, &c. But we shall here restrict the inquiry mostly at least, to Religious things, or actions that are Religious in their own nature. First, then, Conscience must be satisfied in this; Whether that which ye have done, be on the matter approven of God, or not; It is certainly true, ye will say, that prayer in it self is approven, and so it is; but was such and such an expression that ye uttered, and such a word that ye spoke, and the arguments that ye made use of in prayer, right before God? If the matter be not right, Conscience cannot speak for you; Though a man should be as wary and circumspect as may be▪ in cheating, circumven •ing, and deceiving of his neighbour, its impossible for ⟨p. 247⟩Conscience to give him a good Testimony anent it, or any other such action; because its on the matter sinful; ye must once then be sure and clear in this, that what ye speak, or do in prayer, or any other thing is, as to its matter, according to the will of God.

For further clearing of the Doctrine, and inlarging of its •se, and for helping you to judge aright of Conscience its Testimony, in your searching after it; We shall propose some Questions, from the requisit qualifications of a well grounded, and refreshing Testimony of a mans 〈…〉 for him; which must all be answered in some measure affirmatively, and these Answers solidly, and well proved, and made ou•, before you can quietly and confidently rest on Consciences Testimony, as to any part or piece of your way; whether it be in reference to the Sanctification of the Sabbath, to conferring on a spiritual subject, to prayer, to praise, to reading, to hearing, to eating, to drinking, to buying, to selling, to building, to planting, &c. But we shall here restrict the inquiry mostly at least, to Religious things, or actions that are Religious in their own nature. First, then, Conscience must be satisfied in this; Whether that which ye have done, be on the matter approven of God, or not; It is certainly true, ye will say, that prayer in it self is approven, and so it is; but was such and such an expression that ye uttered, and such a word that ye spoke, and the arguments that ye made use of in prayer, right before God? If the matter be not right, Conscience cannot speak for you; Though a man should be as warry and circumspect as may be in cheating, circumven ing, and deceiving of his neighbour, its impossible for