Exercise of Conscience

"When godly exercise of conscience fails to produce a path of practical separation from evil, it is sometimes undertaken in selfwill and a spirit of opposition. Such a person is liable to sink back into a worse condition than before; conscience is not set at rest, the way of truth is still despised, divine power and the anointed eye are lacking, and the man becomes an easy prey to the enemy. He does not really separate from evil in self-judgment but in self-will; and, like the house swept and garnished, his last state becomes worse than the first."