The truly blessed man

1. Conscience is a Statute Book. In it are engraven the Laws of God, by which men are to be Judged, and there they are to read. These records are much blurred in natural men, however, mere Heathen have enough to convince, and consequently to condemn them: they are said to be A Law to themselves, Rom. 2.14. Conscience not only tells them this is a Sin, and that a Duty, but also that there is such a recompense due to sin in Justice, it testifieth both to the Law, and the equity of it, Rom. 1. ult. 2 1. And when Conscience hath been enlightened by the Word, it is yet more fitted to discharge this Office.

1. Conscience is a Statute Book. In it are engraven the Laws of God, by which men are to be Judged, and there they are to read. These records are much blurred in natural men, however, meer Heathen have enough to convince, and consequently to condemn them: they are said to be A Law to themselves, Rom. 2.14. Conscience not only tells them this is a Sin, and that a Duty, but also that there is such a recompence due to sin in Justice, it testifyeth both to the Law, and the equity of it, Rom. 1. ult. 2 1. And when Conscience hath been enlightned by the Word, it is yet more fitted to discharge this Office.

2. Conscience is a Register. It is a Book of records in which all matters of fact are fairly written and reserved. Man may for the present have forgotten a great many things, but they are faithfully entered in the rolls of Conscience, and he shall there read them sooner or later: they are there graven indelebly, As with a Pen of Iron, and point of a diamond, in the Rock: and not one sin that he was ever Guilty of▪ but is there upon the file, to be produced against him, for which reason it is called a Book,