

A
Treati(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
courfe
of
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
a
curie;
many wicked men have it
as
a
cui
fé
:
It
maketh their
fiinnes
the
greater.
Like
as
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
is
with [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
much
committed
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
confcience
was
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
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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
to
get
a confcience
illightned.
It
is
true,
a
man
may 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-be
fomething illightned, yet
labour for
more light.
It
will
prevent
many
a
ftumble,fave
thee
from
ma-
ny
a
knock.
Thou knower
not
what
cafe
thou
mayft be in,
what
difficult
ftraits thou
mayft be
put unto
;
if
thon
haft
not.
light
in
thy confcience to
dire
thee, what wilt thou do
?.
I!.
An.