8. Conscience no proof of any innate moral rule.
To which I answer, that I doubt not but, without being written on
their hearts, many men may, by the same way that they come to the knowledge of other things, come to assent to
several moral rules, and be convinced of their obligation. Others also may come to be of the same mind, from
their education, company, and customs of their country; which persuasion, however got, will serve to set
conscience on work; which is nothing else but our own opinion or judgment of the moral rectitude or pravity of
our own actions; and if conscience be a proof of innate principles, contraries may be innate principles; since some
men with the same bent of conscience prosecute what others avoid.
