/ Natural! Confcience nogoodConfcience: ~4) 7· ~e may fometimes, and ~er at.ld anon Cap. 18 • when he feriouily refleCts on h1mfelf, have a - · . rliflik.! ofhis own frate and wayes, .and know and confefs his finfull doings, yea, he may have fiore andplentie of teares~ and make lhew of much paffion and compunfrlon for fin ; · fo did Saul, 1 Sam. 24· 16. and26.2 I o Hee was under great and frequent tits of horror ofthis naturall Confcienceo 8. Or he may onthe other fide have much-- inward and pleafing. naturall Peace, while he . obferves the rules and diCl:ates ofhis natu– t·all Confdence, Rom. 2 . 15o They bave their Confcimces. witneffing with them ( faith the Apofrle ofthe naturall Heathens) aud their thoughts M well excufing t1f accuflng them. They may have tranquillam, but not ftcuram' cvn.. fcientiam, as Bernarddiftinguilheth. · And thus it is faid of Socrates, who living according to the rules of his naturall en– lightened underfranding, when. he came to , die~andwas put to death, he took his death withmuch Refolution and Tranquillztie of minde : He faid of his enemies, They could but kill him, t~y could not hurt him : tt7; H.7~r1.l ~ Juvdr1cu, P~d..J,u Jl' J Jluvdv1«.t• Yet for all this no naturall Confcience can be a good Confcienceo I. Becaufe though it may cumfeip[o, & cum aliis foire, yet it dot h not cum Deo fcire. At the befc it is liable to that rebtlkc given unto Peter. Matth. 16.23. Get thee bebi:zde me, Satan., thou art an fljfence . unto me: for tbaz~ favoureft not the tbings that_Mat.x6,23 R 3 h~
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