244 Nf11Hraf/ Confoience nogoodConfcie-nce. Cap 1 8. Co~fcience bee but a . naturaU Confcience. ,.. • Now thenature of Confcience is very good, - -·- but the Confcience of Nature is very bad. ' Some goodnaturall Confcience may have in it, but good it cannot be called~ 1. It may make amancumJeipfo (cire. Rom._ 2. I 5. And fa becqme 4/awunto himfe!f. . 2. Such an one may cum aliis fcire, ana fo far is good, as Adrian faid to do that to others , which he would exfpect from others. " 3. Such an .one may be exact: in matters of the [econd Ta~le; he may .. anfwer all the duties of naturall and civill Relations, obferve the Lawes of humanitieand friend– fhip religioufly ; be true to his truft, intere!t, · countrey, friend, promife, engagement, to his Oath taken as Regulw, To the fait of the Palace. Ezra 4· 14· as thofe Idolaters were. 4· He may ,makc:fcruple ofmany fins, fitch as the light of nature condemnes, grofs fins commonly, Abimelech abhors adulterie,Gen. Joh.IS. 20.5. Pi/ate's Confcience grudges andrelulls 31,38. to condemna~ innocent man to death; FeftU! &:a9·4, 8 • holds it unreafonable to fend a Pri(oner bound A ' 2 s.:. 7 without matter of weight charged upon him, to be inferted in theMittimM. 5. He may have fome fenCe of tbe Deitie of God, and of the force of Religion. Rom. 1.20. and 2. 14,1). ' . 6. May io that refpe~ tremble fomethnes, and be terrified in Confcience for fin ·and J1ell,as F1lix,ACt.e242 )• 7· He
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