i &M2on 2. and run for that; but, if any obje& of charity offer, or if there beany Hazard of lofs for Chrift and the gofpel's falce, thefe will be filent there ; or, if confcience mutter, it will not be much regarded in what it Pays. Now, if Confcience fwayed the man here, there would be an im- partial refpe& had to one duty as well as to another. q.. Where intereft, credit, inclination, or afte &ion push, they drive not only violently and partially, but irrationally, and cannot flay nor endure to reafon and debate things, or to be diffwaded from the thing towards which there is an inclination and will, neither will give a hearing tá what may he faid to the contrary : But Confcience, in its im- pulfe, is rational and fober, goes to the word, and would have matters calmly reafoned and debated, and is the better fatisfied the better the bufinefs be debated and cleared, becaufe it liketh and loveth rational fervice, Rom. iz. 1. and therefore layeth every thing to the rule, and readily contefteth with corruption, with which inclination fideth. 5. When credit, intereft and inclination in their impuifes are thwarted, they ftorm, they vex and torture the man ; but, when the impufe of Confcience is thwarted, it hath a kindly pricking and founding, the impulfe of intereft or inclination being thwarted, confufeth and put - teth thorow other ;(to 4peak fo) and being but a carnal fit of pailion, maketh frothy, light, and diftemperedly paffi- . onate ; but, if the impulfe of Confcience be thwarted, it weigheth and flingeth deeply. 6. The impufe of Confci- ence affe ð conftantly, and choppeth evenly : Tho' fometimes in its chopping it will be more quick than at another time, yet where it fwayeth, it leaveth not off, but continueth chopping this year and the next, and ac- counteth a thing evil or good in another as well as in a man's felf, and in himfelf as well as in another, and at all times ; but when a man is pufhed by credit, intereft, inclination or afk Lion, he is like a diftempered man in a fever, whole puffe beateth not evenly, he is not conftant and equal,but up or down ; as the particular that afie ð him. ítirreth his humour, or cometh near him. As for inflance, a man waved by his.intereft will difpute for the government of filch a perfon this year, and for the government of another the next ; for luck an intereft this year)
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