everlastingly condemned. O! if men would be but convicted in their consciences of the evil, of their ways, when their consciences tell them of it! How many thousands might be brought home by repentance to life eternal, who now run headlong to their destruction! I am persuaded that many who cozen and cheat by undermining and overselling, by using false and light weights and measures cannot chuse, but meet with many checks from their consciences. And O that men would be convinced of their great evil.
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy by false weights and measures! O be convinced in thy conscience, make conscience thy friend now, by forsaking thy evil practices, lest conscience prove thy foe to torment thee for ever. But men, now a days, instead of being convinced in their consciences of the evil of their ways, are not ashamed to commit all manner of abominations, and that with greediness and then lay all the blame upon their poor consciencesː And why so? It was my conscience, say they. As many of our Roman Catholics, and diabolical Ranters, Quakers and notorious libertines, in ⟨these⟩ our days, have laid all their impieties and horrid blasphemies upon their consciences. Ask them but the reason why they ⟨deny⟩
