r c. Perfecto Said). 405 Confcience will Say Euge, this or that is well done by us. Z he Teftirnony of Confcience was of great repute among Pagans; Plato calls it his Demon, and Menander a God, ñ cuvHd`n- Gts <Ws, faith he, Confcience is a God to Mor- tals. And Seneca, Deus in humano corpore hof- pitans, God dwelling in an humane body. Hence came Pythagoras's Ei t P o çcwr6v, or felf rever- ence. And Sextius his parly with himfelf eve- ry night, what Vice he had in the day refilled, and Virtue promoted. And the Satyriffs com- plaint touching the neglea of the reflexive faculty,. Vt nemo in feefe tentat defcendere,nemo, few or none mould defrend into thenmf elves.Among Chriflians the Teftimony of Confcience mutt needs be facred ; their Confciences not lying, as the Pagans, in their blood or natural pollu- tion, but being purified by the precious Blood and Spirit of Chrift ; their lamps of Reafon not lying as the others in the damp and dark - nefs of the fall, but brought forth and new- lighted at the Scripture,and Sun of Righteouf- nefs fhining therein as in its orb. Confcience in a Believer is, as St. Bernard bath it, Purum Religionis Jpecislum, a pure klafs of Religion And as another, Major pars clavium, the grea- tef key in the Church; fìich an excellent Wit - nefs may well fpeak in this Point. In David it fpeaks thus, 0 Lord,I have walked in my in- tegrity, Pfal. 26. 1. that is, in the exercife of Faith, Love, Obedience, and other Graces, which as fo many Pearls make up Sincerity. In Hezekiah it fpeaks much after the fame manner, E e 3 Re-
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