on r Peter ;. 2T. 14 to walk fo, as they may keep a good correfpondence with their Confcience : And it is ari evidence of a final incapacity to difcern the language of Confcience, when there is not a conflant endeavour to walk according to the ftrain of a good Confcience in every thing. SERMON IL Peter 3. 21. (Not the putting away of the filth of the fleJb, but the anfwer of a good Gonfci.. ence <) j® T a former occafion we propofed this dorine' from j3 thefe words, That the Confcience which is in men hath a way of fignifying its mind to them concerning their a &ions, to let them know when it is fatisfied, and when diffatisfied, and to give them force fenfe of them, called, The anfwer of the Confcience. The u/e of the point was, that if it be P., men and women fhould, in all their carriage and a &ions, endeavour to know what fenfe Confcience hath of them : They should ask advice of Confcience, and take its anfwer before they a&, in the time of their afting, and when they have done a&ing. In profecuting of this u/e (which is the main thing aimed at, we propofed for clearing it, i. What this anfwer is, which is efpecially to be looked to, not as de- termining fimply what is right, and what is wrong, for that is done in the word ; but that in things lawful, and in thofe duties, that (as was Paid) do not oblige ad femper, or in all differences of time, we are by the an- fwer of Confcience to try our particular call to them, the right timing of them, and the right manner of going about them. 2. What way Confcience maketh its mind known, and giveth this anfwer ? g . What way fhould be taken for finding out and obtaining this anfwer ? 4. How it may be difeerned to be the anfwer of Confci- ence, and not our own particular 41411ation and afketi. There
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