Weekend Meditation - Ethics and Conscience

“Walk always with God, as in his presence, and in the awe of his laws and judgment, that conscience may be kept awake and tender. You will be restrained from vain talk, if you perceive that God is hearing you, and if you remember that your tongue is under a law, and that ‘for every idle word man shall give account in the day of judgment,’ Matt. 12. 36, 37, and that by your ‘words you shall be justified or condemned.’ If the law of God were in your hearts, Psal. 11. 8, and hidden there, Psal. 119. 11, your heart would be fixed, Psal. 57. 7. His word then would be the rejoicing of your heart, Psal. 119. 111; and your tongues would be talking of judgment, Psal. 37. 30. A tender conscience will smart more with an idle word, than a seared, senseless conscience with an oath, or lie, or slander. For fear of God is clean, Psal. 19. 9, and by it men depart from evil, Prov. 16. 6. ‘Be thou therefore in the fear of the Lord all the day long,’ Prov. 23. 17.” – Richard Baxter.
The study of the Word of God will strengthen the conscience.
Grandpa