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Rh for if men will sin willingly, all these checks of conscience, their will condemn them before the. For certain it is, there is a conscience in every man that sees and observes, takes notice of all his ways, and will  a just account of them, and so be a witness either for or against  soul, at  day of judgment. What was it that the apostles so joyful in all their  and persecutions? Was it not the witness of their consciences! See 2 Corin. 12. ‘Our rejoicing is this,’ saith St., ‘the testimony of our consciences. What was it that made Paul and Silas sing prison for joy? Was it not that their told them they were happy and  men, notwithstanding all their sufferings and reproaches.

Now what conscience is, I shall briefly you, and so conclude. Conscience thing with which God endued the soul  man by creation, and is for our, if we live as we ought to do; but  be a dreadful terror to them that live  die in their sins. For this conscience in Adam before the fall, though not as  condemner till his fall; for where there  no sin, what needeth an accuser? So as Adam kept the commandments of, there was no cause of conscience to