155 Of a Confcience void of OJénce. SE R M. diately ftruck with when it reflects on its VII. own wickednefs ; as, on the contrary, there `v-""j arifes an inward fecurity and confidence from a confcioufnefs of our own innocence and integrity. Efpecially the mind, which is firmly perfuaded concerning God the fu- preme, the infinitely wife, the perfealy righteous, and good governor of the world, muft feel in the molt aífeding manner the accufations, and the acquittals of confcience, which pronounces its judgments with an eye to his fuperior tribunal, and with an expeäation of their being confirm'd by him; as the work of the divine law is written on every human heart, we naturally have pre - faging thoughts of the account which we muft give of our own ations, and that every work (hall be brought into judgment, and every Jecret thing, whether it be good or evil. It is to be obferved, that by the conftitu- tion of the human mind, which compre- hends a variety of principles or fprings of aftion, confcience is properly the fuperior controuling faculty, becaufe the power of approving or condemning belongs to it. Every affefiion, every appetite, is a diftina and direé fpring of aâion ; but as there is a
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