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F.E. Marsh
Conscience

“A Conscience” (Act 24:16).

“Bessus, a native of Pelonia, in Greece, being seen by his neighbors pulling down birds’ nests, and destroying their harmless young, was severely rebuked for his cruelty. His excuse was that their notes were insufferable to him, as they never ceased twitting him for the murder of his father. Poor birds, they were innocent enough in the matter, but it was a guilty conscience which muttered its ceaseless reproaches in his ears.” Every sound is to the guilty conscience an accusing voice and a death-knell; but, where the conscience is clear, the twitter of the birds, the music of the waves, and the tolling of the bells are voices which quiet our hearts, and make us say—in truth —with Shakespeare’s Wolsey in reply to Cromwell, who asks

  • “How does your grace?
  • Why, well;
  • Never so truly happy …
  • I know myself now; and feel within me
  • Above all earthy dignities,
  • A still and quiet conscience.”

  • Conscience was the Voice
    to charge Joseph’s brethren with their sin (Gen 44:16).
  • Conscience was the Spectre
    to haunt Saul for his disloyalty (1Sa 15:20).
  • Conscience was the Troubler
    to disturb Ahab for his greed (1Ki 18:17-18).
  • Conscience was the Prosecutor
    to charge David with his iniquity [sin] (2Sa 12:7).
  • Conscience was the Handwriting
    to condemn Belshazzar for his profanity (Dan 5:22-23).
  • Conscience was the Arresting Hand
    to detain Achan because of his coveteousness [a great desire to possess something belonging to someone else] (Jos 7:24).
  • Conscience was the Iron
    which branded Cain with his crime (Gen 4:15).
  • Conscience was the Whip
    which lashed Judas for his unholy betrayal of Christ (Mat 27:3-5).
* * * * * * * *

A conscience that is adjusted by the compass of God’s Word is the only conscience that is reliable.

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