;. Sef mon i. to them, fuch as, Why did you this or that ? why did you leave this or that undone ? as it is, i Cor. io. 25. Ask- ing no queflion for Confcience fake , that is, asking no queflion for anfwering of there queftions which Confci- ence will ask. The 2. is, When men ask queftions at their Confcience, to prevent its queftioning of them ; as indeed, we fhould be taking pains before -hand to know, and take up, the language of our Confcience concerning our pra &ice in this, and that, and the other particular that it may have no juif ground of challenge againff vs. fhall infance this in three things, and hold at the 351 for the time. ß, We fhould obferve the language of Confcience before we put our hand to any duty. zdly, We fhould obferve the language of Confcience in the in- terirn, or in the very time of our going about duty. idly, We fhould obferve the language of Confcience concerning duty, when we have done and gone through with it : Ira which my meaning is not, i. That we 1hould in clear and neceffary duties flart or put queftions, but thati in things indifferent in their own nature, and in fuch duties as are neceffary, and do f miler, or ever, oblige, tho' not ad Temper, or in all differences of time, but only hic & nunc, now and then, to wit, at due and fea- fonable times ; or, as to the right timing of thefe neceffary duties (for every thing is beautiful in the feafon there - of) wherein a great part of our work along our whole life lieth. The anfwer of our Confcience fhould be ob- erved : For, the many conditions, Rations and a6ti- ons be lawful, yet Confcience decideth, whether I be called to fuch and fuch a ffation and condition of life, and whether fuch a thing be a duty to me, at fuch a time, and how it ought to be gone about, as to the manner. Neither. 2. Do I mean, that we fhould, in there things cxpeet any extraordinary thing, or fomewhat more than an ordinary impulfe of Confcience, laying on a fort of conflraint or neceflty on us, in an immediate way, which would be dangerous : lout my meaning is fhortly this, that there is a poffibility in God's ordinary way to know what CAnfcience faith to them that will ob- fervr the anfwer of it both before, in and afar duty, and
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