d treatife ofConfeience. 1 123 onely for fcholars and fuch a§ have (+tidied logick in the fchools to make iillogi1hics. j aníwer, It is true ; Artificial( logick is onely among fcholars : Butthere is naturali logick in con- fcience, which doth not fiordupon forms.. The godly people at Rome were never brought up at Univer(itie : yet the Apof+le telleth them they had logick enough to argue themfelves to be dead unto finneand alive unto God through Chrií+ ; Lizewife Nom.6.1 x alfo, faith he, reckonyeyour felves to be deal indeed untofinrsr, but olive untoGod through ,Jefns Chrifi our Lord. The originali is;1cnah0)4 e.31,Cxercife fo much logickinyour felves Likegood logician; prove jour fe'ves to be dead unto finne and alive to God. So that ye fee there is natural( logick in confcience : and therefore confcience is able to frame argumentsabout our ef+ate, and to inform us what it is. III. The third thing j propounded td confider is, When 3' When confcience doth this. This is a very neceffariepoint : and indeed loth fo they are all ; but this more eipccially. Jhave hewed that doth this confcience is able to inform us what elateweare in, whether of grace or nature : but when doth it perform this ?. J aníwer, J neednot fo much (peak ofthe godly, becaufe they domark con- fcience. But let me (peak of tuch as are foolifh, difbbedient, ferving divers luf+s, who never had yet the wafhingofregenera.. tion nor the renewing of the holy Ghof+ :_ J_ aníwer about them ; j. Their coniience muff needs have a time when to do it. f deremembsrmy faults this day, faith Pharaohs butler, Gen. 4r. 9. His confcience did inform him; and there was a time when his confcience did inform him. 2. Confcience would choofe a timeby it f; if : it would inform a wicked man folernnly and punetually of his rotten and curled of}ate he is in. J fay, it would have a f'olemn time by it fèlf for this. ifit could have it : but a wicked man tal eth an order with his confcience that it (hall not tell him folemnly how it is with him ; neither will he final a time to fuffer it : As it was with Felix; When his confcience began to grumble againft him. whenPaul had told him of ri;hteoufneífe and of judgement, he trembled, his confcience began to f+irre, and would then D d 3 have
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