A plain discourse upon uprightness showing the properties and privileges of an upright man…A plain discourse upon uprightness shewing the properties and priviledges of an upright man…

2. Conscience rightly informed may go far in this decision: But Conscience is not Regula regulans, but Regula regulata. Its like the Dial that must be set by the Sun of Gods word, and rightly determines only by virtue of that. And sometimes, such pangs and terrors overwhelm the Conscience, that then it is not a competent Judge of the cause. If every man whose Conscience pricks him, were an hypocrite; God help the greatest part of Conscientious Christians!

2. Conscience rightly inform'd may go far in this decision: But Conscience is not Regula regulans, but Regula regulata. Its like the Dial that must be set by the Sun of Gods word, and rightly determines only by vertue of that. And sometimes, such pangs and terrors overwhelm the Conscience, that then it is not a competent Judge of the cause. If every man whose Conscience pricks him, were an hypocrite; God help the greatest part of Conscientious Christians!

Doubt 4. My sad Experience, 1. of my Dryness in secret Duties. I am better in the assembly, than in my family, better in my family, than in my closet, and there an upright man is best. He that is enlarged and enlivened with others, and straitened in his own bowels, cannot be upright.

Doubt 4. My sad Experience, 1. of my Dryness in secret Duties. I am better in the assembly, than in my family, better in my family, than in my closet, and there an upright man is best. He that is enlarged and enlivened with others, and straitned in his own bowels, cannot be upright.

Resol. 1. The more company we have in Ordinances, the more enlargement we may ⟨p. 172⟩expect, and yet upright withal. Our Saviour himself when he saw the multitudes, it opened his mouth,