ATreati(e of Gonfcience. 37 aright in matters both concerning our general! and particular calling, both towards God and towards man, and this illight- 1 ned confcience is a great bleffing of God : I. Becaufe it is the proper effe8 dale law of God : 2.E'ecaufe it is a very grew- ad- vantage to a man in the whole courfeof his life when a mans confcience is illightned to diret him in every cafe what he is to do. If an illightned confcience be fo great a ble(ting, then be vfe I. thankfull to God for it if ye have it, and ufe it as a bleflin;. Some have it, and ufe it not as a blelfing ; the Devils have is as acurie; many wicked men have it as a cui fé : It maketh their fiinnes the greater. Likeas a colour, the more light fhineth up- on it the greater it is green is more green, andwhite is more white , and red more red, &c. So it iswith [inne; the more light thy confcience bath, the greater is thy [inne; thy drunken- neffe is more heinous, and thy fwearing and the like by how muchcommitted againft more light. Oh therefore make ufe of the light of thy confcience as `David did : Thy Word is a Lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my paths. What followeth ? I peal. 119 have [worn, and I will perform it, to keep thy righteous judge.. jog. menu. Mark,when his confciencewas iilightned,he bound him- felf to follow the direaions thereof. 2. Is an illightned confcience fuch a bleffing ? O labour to get it; be not without it for a world. Thou wert better walk Vie 24 blindfold. over narrow bridges and planks, better walk in the dark through a place full of downfals and marl-pits, then walk, without a confcience illightned. Fie who walketh in the dark, knoweth not whether hegoeth,John I z. 35. O labour therefore toget a confcience illightned. It is true, a manmay have an il- lightned confcience and yet go to hell : but this is molt certain, without an illightned confcience a man cannot go to heaven. And if thy confcience-befomething illightned, yet labour for more light. It will prevent many a ftumble,fave thee fromma- ny a knock. Thou knower not what cafe thou mayft be in, whatdifficult ftraits thou mayft be put unto ; ifthon haft not. light in thy confcience to dire thee, what wilt thou do ?. I!. An.
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