Grotius—Conscience and Judgment

We should keep in mind that a proposed course of action may in itself be lawful, but the actor contemplating it should weigh first all the circumstances. He might conclude that it is unlawful, that it is vicious and bad. This is what the Apostle Paul means when he says, Rom. xiv. 23, that “whatsoever is not of faith is sin.” In this passage he uses “faith” to mean the judgment which a man forms about a thing; for God has given us the faculty of discernment, called conscience, conforming to whose dictates we are commanded to reconcile our dealings, and whenever we neglect or forbear its requirements, our minds degenerate and become not as men but animals. . . .

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