x 74 ermon I. the particular refpe& that he ought to have to his Con- fcience in carrying it all along with him in his a&ions Yet we (hall paffingly point at, and little more than name, fome general obfervations ; and then come to the particulars that we mainly aim at. And, 1I, we obferve this, That a man's Confcience is .fomeway different from himfelf, as in forre refpea.'(ta (peak fo) another party. I fpeak the truth in Chrift, lie not, my Confcience alto bearing me witnefs. f and me is one thing,- and Confcience, as it were, another, and the holy Ghot a third all which he joins together, yet fo as he makes them diffèrent parties. Confcience1 I fay, conftdered as Confcience, and more efpecia ly as 'tis, renewed, well informed, and tender in the exercife of its duty, differs from the man ,himfelf, z. In refpe& of its place of more dire& and immediate fubje&ìon to, God himfelf, as its maffer, to receive its orders from him ; whereas the man is more dire&ly and .imáüediately, fubje& to Confcience, by which, as his deputy, God rules him. 2. In refpe& of its office, viz. To di &ate to man what he fhould do, and what he should not do,' and that according to the light that it hath from God in -his revealed will and word; whereas man is not to dï &are to his Confcience, but to obey its di&ates in fo fat as they agree with God's revealed will and word. 3, In that, by its office alfo, it is to tell the man that he Mould dire& all his a &ions to the right end,, viz. the glory of God : For its office is not only to di&ate our way, hut to injoin to us our end. Man hath not. a.. power or liberty allowed to him to propofe to himfelf what end he pleafeth, fuch as profit, pleafure, or credit, as his main end, but is obliged to eye the glory of. God as fuch ; which Confcience, by vertue of its office, and, a&ing its part aright (tho', alas, it often proves de- fe&ive therein, being corrupted and defiled by fin) in- joins him to do. 4. In refpe& of the different con - fideration and fenfe of things. It will often be difpleaf ed, accule and condemn, when the man himfelf will be Well pleafed ; it will judge a thing unworthy to be en- tertained, which the man ell judge worthy the enter -. aining. And fo Confcience is to be conftdered, rho" having.'
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