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

For Use of it, do not separate these things which God hath conjoined; Think never to have a good Conscience, when ye have not an honest Conversation: It may be found without the accomplishment of a very diligent search, that many do presumptuously and groundlessly speak and boast of a good Conscience, when there is nothing in their Conversation that looks like it, let be warrants it; but if ye would certainly know the companion of a good Conscience, take it from Paul, it is even a living honestly: I would only here have you to take this Caveat in the by, when we say that a good Conscience, and an honest life or walk go together, we would not have you to look to the connection of these two, so severely and rigidly, as if there could not be a good Conscience, but where there is an honest walk in its perfection, without all slips or failings; for we are now speaking of a deliberate, fixed, and settled purpose, and sincere endeavour to live and walk honestly; which may ⟨p. 289⟩consist with slips and fallings of infirmity; This willingness to live honestly can never be separate from a good Conscience: Neither would we have you thinking, when a Christian miscarries in his Conversation, that he can never recover a good Conscience: There are two ways whereby a Believer may come to quietness in his Conscience. 1. By the exercise of Sanctification which prevents a Challenge; and that is it which the Apostle speaks of here, and Acts 24. 16. and it is that which we mean in the Doctrine. 2. When he fails and miscarries, there is a recovering of quietness, and of the Testimony of Conscience, by the exercise of repentance and Faith, sprinkling the Conscience with the blood of Jesus; Which flows not so much indeed from the mans holiness and tenderness, for preventing of a Challenge, as from Justification, and the right that the Soul gets to pardon of Sin thereby, wherein the Blood of Christ removes the Challenge and quiets the Conscience; and a Soul may have the one of these, when to its sense it wants the other; or hath indeed but little of it; It may have some comfortable clearness of interest, or at least the faith of it, when it has in some respect an ill Conscience; as we may see David had Psal. 51.

For Use of it, do not separat these things which God hath conjoyned; Think never to have a good Conscience, when ye have not an honest Conversation: It may be found without the accomplishment of a very diligent search, that many do presumptuously and groundlesly speak and boast of a good Conscience, when there is nothing in their Conversation that looks like it, let be warrands it; but if ye would certainly know the companion of a good Conscience, take it from Paul, it is even a living honestly: I would only here have you to take this Caveat in the by, when we say that a good Conscience, and an honest life or walk go together, we would not have you to look to the connexion of these two, so severly and rigidly, as if there could not be a good Conscience, but where there is an honest walk in its perfection, without all slips or failings; for we are now speaking of a deliberat, fixed, and settled purpose, and sincere indeavour to live and walk honestly; which may