and that we fhould aim, and éndeavour to underfiand and take up that. For further clearing of this aft, we (hall (peak a little to force five or fix queflions : As namely, ift, What this anfwer of Confcience is ? zdly, How the Confcience giv- eth its anfwer ? 3dly, What is called for from men, to find out this anfwer ? 4thly, How this anfwer of Conscience may be difcerned ? 5thly, If this anfwer of Confcience be difcernible at all times ? 6thly, What is to be done in fuch cafes, wherein the anfwer of Confcience is not fo clear as men would have it ? For the ijI, What this anfwer of Confcience is ? I an- fwer in fhort, That it is diflin& from a man's inclination,'. from his atfe &ions, and from his naked judgment or light : There is fomething in a man's natural inclination, that is ready to Tway him to this or that, but that is not Confcience : There is allo fomething in a man's affecti- ons, as in that which he feareth or defireth and loveth, that may Tway him ; neither is that Confcience but often that which is contrary to Confcience : There is likewife fomething in mens light, from which alto Confcience differenh ; aecaufe a natural and unregenerate man, that maketh no Confcience of his ways, may notwith- fianding have a light in his judgment, by which he is put to come to Church, and poffibly to pray, and do other duties ; and yet, it may be from no anfwer, or di &ate of Confcience, that he doth thefe duties : We conceive therefore, that this anfwer of Confcience, is fomething different from, and beyond, either inclination, afe &ion or bare light ; and that it is light and Con - fcience going jointly together, or force conclufion drawn from the word (for we are fpeaking here of Confcience as it is in people living in the Church, under the mini - firy of the word) that fuch a thing is duty, and Con - fcience thereupon putting on to it ; or a conclufion drawn from the word, that fuch a thing is a fin, and Confci- ence thereupon deterring from it : Thus it differeth from light (imply confidered, in as far as it is a conclufion drawn from fueb grounds, as the judgment, or light the judgment layer h down to, or before it: It is an znf`xver that not only hath truth in it, which may be from 4 11t_r
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