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2. A natural Conscience checks men for sin. It is •ts Office, according to its light, to call on men to to their duty, and reflect on and reprove them when they fail in it, and there is more or less of his activity in all that are not seared, Rom. 2. 15. •nd here Conscience doth two things, it tells them ⟨p. 164⟩that they have done amiss, and puts them in fear by threatening them for that they have so done.

2. A natural Conscience checks men for sin. It is •ts Office, according to its light, to call on men to to their duty, and reflect on and reprove them when they fail in it, and there is more or less of his activity in all that are not seared, Rom. 2. 15. •nd here Conscience doth two things, it tells them ⟨p. 164⟩that they have done amiss, and puts them in fear by threatning them for that they have so done.

3. Hence there is a natural shame in men, that pu• them upon hiding their sin This shame is a prope• result from the act of Conscience, telling them they have done things which ought not to have been done, and so have acted unbecomingly. It is natural for men to be ashamed of what they think to be unworthy of them, and to carry matter of reproach in it; so our first Parents, Gen. […] 7, 9. And the operation of shame is to put me• upon absconding. Impudence therefore is an high degree of wickedness, and therefore greatly aggravateth the sin,