All is Right if Conscience Approve.
It was a good saying of one that, in those days, was known to be an able speaker, when he was to make his reply to some that had unjustly maligned him, I will rest (saith he) henceforward in peace, in the house of my own conscience; and if I do any good deeds, it is no matter who knows them; if bad, knowing them myself, it is no matter from whom I hide them; they will be recorded before that Judge from whose presence I cannot flee. If all the world applaud me, and He accuse me, their praise is vain. And thus let every man, in all his intents, projects, and ends, as a conscionable Christian, look to the Lord, as the searcher of his heart, and regarder of his work; not caring for the howling of dogs, the slanderous reports of lewd and wicked men, so as the little bird within sings clear; not discouraging himself at whatsoever men think or speak of him, and his doings, so as God and his conscience do approve them; nor contenting himself with men’s approbation, when the testimony of God’s word and his own conscience gainsays them.