...is written in the hearts even of those who are not blessed with revealed precepts. "Their conscience bearing witness; and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another." Rom. ii. 15. In whatever light the gods of the heathen may have been represented, the true God must...

...themselves; which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing them witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another.** A man's reason may teach him, that he has acted wisely in doing good, or that he has acted foolishly...

...His many faultftmay have an influence injurious to the success of science. Who but a fanutick science also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another. would wish that this influence should not be averted? Independence and prudence are always associated,...

...it brings him to a sense of his guilt. This is what Paul means, when he speaks of men's " conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another" (i) before God. A simple knowledge might remain in man as it were in a state of concealment. Therefore...

...heathens themselves, " which shew " the work of the law written in their hearts, their " conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts " the mean...while accusing, or else excusing one <% another."* These natural laws were also perfectly agreeable to the inclination and bias of his will. They were...

...themselves : which sheweth the work of the law written in their hearts ; their conscience also hearing them witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another. So that the gentiles themselves are to he judged hy their sincerity, and not condemned for involuntary...

...are a law unto themselves ; which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another." Yet the very contrary of this rational and apostolical doctrine is expressed in your eighteenth article,...

...those, and those only, "who do by nature the things contained in the law," whose "consciences bear witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another." Experience is too plain to admit that every idle word is brought, even to the bar of conscience, that...

...those, and those only, "who do by nature the things contained in the law," whose "consciences bear witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another.'7 Experience is too plain to admit that every idle word is brought, even to the bar of conscience,...

...are a law unto themselves: which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another." — Romans ii, 14, 15. It is quite clear from the preceding passage, that the heathen, or gentiles,...