406 ;etfouo raft . Remember, 0 Lord, how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfea heart, 16.58.3. And it is the more to be noted, becaufe Con - fcience faith fo in a way of appeal even to God himfelf ; and by a right e AI e<ve+'a, holds up the truth of its Graces to fo pure -a Sun. This is fuch a Teftimony as St.Pa.ul joys and glories in, Cor.. 1. 12. EJl ttidam modus in Confcientib gl,riandi, ut noveris fidem tuam effe finceram, fpem tuam certam, caritatem tram fine finiula- tione, faith St: Atilin; There id a -kìnd of glory - ing in confcience, when thou knorveJl thy Faith fund, Hope certain, and Love undiffem- bled. A Man that repents, believes and loves, may by the pulfe of Confcience, know that he Both foa true , faith Beilarmine ; he may know that he doth them, but not that he loth that ficut oportet,; as he ought to do them. tinto which I anfwer;Confcience according to its Light and Line of Principles can bear Wit- ness to Integrity; natural Con fcience to natu- ral Integrity, and renewed Confcience to gro- cious Integrity. An irìffance of the former we have in Abimelech, whofe Confcience told. him, That he meant not to take away ano- ther mans Wife, Gen. 2o. 5. and of the latter in St. Paul, who Confcience told him, That his Converfation was in fimplicity and godly. fincerity, 2 Cor. r. i2. Confcience, which Witneffes Integrity , muff lock beyond the nicer matter of Acts into the modus for there- in, Integrity, especially fuch as is gracious,con- fills more than in the Ads themièlves. Unless
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