A Puritan at Heart

Daily quote from the puritans

Conscience is not the standard to judge by

Make not your own judgments or consciences your law, or the maker of your duty; which is but the discerner of the law of God, and of the duty which he maketh you, and of your own obedience or disobedience to him.
There is a dangerous error grown too common in the world [it is commoner still today] that a man is bound to do every thing which his conscience telleth him is the will of God; and that every man must obey his conscience, as if it were the lawgiver of the world; whereas, indeed, it is not ourselves, but God, that is our lawgiver. And conscience is … appointed … only to discern the law of God, and call upon us to observe it: and an erring conscience is not to be obeyed, but to be better informed.… [Richard Baxter]

October 25, 2007 - Posted by Deejay | Richard Baxter | | No Comments

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