Con Science

Another thing against which persons need to be warned, is resistance to,
and trifling with their own con sciences. The reason that there is so little
sensibility on the subject of religion is, that persons have trifled so long
with their own con sciences. People complain that they have none of the
influences of the Holy Spirit; this is very common. How is it? If we could
see through their past history we should perceive times when they felt
keenly on religious subjects, especially when they sinned; but they
indulged first in one sin and disregarded the reproof of con science, and
then in another and another, till at length the voice of the inward monitor
was allowed to pass unheeded, and eventually, except in very extreme
cases, it scarcely spoke at all, and finally sinks down into an indignant
silence!