42 / 378
ermon
r.
erne,
and
that it
takes
notice
of
every
thing,
and will
take
offence
if
it
be
a
thing that
thwarts with it.
We
!hall not
in this place
Rand
to debate what
Confcience
is,
whether it
be
a
power
or
a
faculty,
an
habit
or
an
of
;
which,
as
it
would not be much
for
your
edification,
fo
it
would tranfcend the
reach
of
many
of
you
:
Only
in
the
general
we may
call
it
a
power
wherewith
God
hatis
endowed the
foul
of
man
to
take
notice
of
all
his
thoughts,
words
and
anions.
2.
We
fay,
It
is
accordingly
affe
&ed
with
every thing
:
When
the
man does
right,it
is
pleafed;
and
when
he
does
wrong,
it
is
offended and
wounded,
s
we
may
fee,
i
Cor.
S.
to,
z
r.
fo,
z
Sam.
24.
5.
it
is
laid,
David's heart
fmote him
;
and,
Prov.
IS.
14.
this
is
called a
wouxded
fpirit.
3.
As
it
is
afï'e
&ed,
fo
it
affe
&s
the
perfon
:
,
When
a man has
done well,
it
excufes
and
clears
him
;
and
when
he
has
done
evil
and wronged
it,
it
challenges
and
accufcs
him
;
in
which
refpe
&,
Con
-
fcience
is called
a
judge, pronouncing
fentence, by
abfol-
ving
or
condemning
men.
Scripture, and
the experi-
ence
of all forts
of
people and
times,
clear
and
prove this;
.
The
fcripture
Pays
of
heathens,
Rom.
2.
i
5.
That
their
Confcience
bears
them witnefs,
and
their
thoughts the
mean
while
accufe
or
excufè
one
another
;
it
holds out
this
to
have
been in
Adam, who immediately
after
the fall,
Gen.
3.10.
Mays,
I
heard
thy
voice,
and
was
afraid
;
terror
feized
on
him :
It
mentions this
alfo
to have been in
7ofeph's
bre-
thren,
who,
Gen.
42. 2I.
fay,
We are
verily'
guilty
con
-
cerning
our
Brather
;
and
in David,
in
that
forecited iSam.
24.
5.
where
'tis
faid,that
his
heart
fmote
him:
'
Tis clearly
elfo fappofed,
i
Yohn
3.19,
20,
2.1.
where
the
apoffle
Pays,
If
our
heart
condemn
us,
God
is
greater than
our
heart,
and
knoweth
all
things
;
if
our
heart
condemn
us
not,
then have
we
confidence
towards
God
;
where
we
would take
notice,
that
what
is
here,
and fometimes
in
the
old teffament,
called the heart,
is
in
the text, and elfewhere,
called
the
Confcience,
w
hich.fuppofeth
this
to
be
in
every
`man
:
It
is
further
clear from
the daily experience
of
all in all times;
for
fometimes
it
is
pnufing
to
duty,
fometimes
it
is
chal-
lenging for the
omiff
on
of
duty, or
for
commiffion
of
the
contrary
evil
;
fometimes it
is
(peaking
peace, fometimes
it
ig
marring
peace, and denouncing war
as
it were
;
all
which