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A02714	S. Pauls confidence Deliuered in a sermon before the iudges of assise. By Robert Harris.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1628 (1628)	STC 12847; ESTC S103800	10,437	23

must away 5. He will bee a sorry Physician to others that hath neuer practised vpon himselfe in this kinde c. Vse 1. Here 's matter of complaint and chiding I told you at first that weare of Pauls Faith not of his Life T is true in this sense Paul professed the truth of Christ so doe we hee called vpon Gods Name so we he gaue assent to the Word written so we hee apprehended a life to come and resurrection so wee But now Paul dwels non in protestations and speculations but hee comes to practicew to conscianee here we leaue him In this age consciecce is vsed as loue is We spend all in words and send it away in complements we keep none our sehues we haue our exercises now but they are exercises of bodie of estate of wit of memorie of learning they hee not exercises of conscience No sooner can you name the thing before some kinde of Scholers but they are presently disputing What think your Is conscience an act an babit or a facultie or the whole soule with its eyes inward or what is it They spend the time in defining it rather than in resining and reforming of it Here of comes it that when they are sent for to a sicke patient reat they be as farre to seeke as that Physician who hath read much but practised nothing and for the many once mention conscience and they will quickly put you by with a rude Prouerb That conscience was hanged a great while agoe Thus the terme is now growne odious the thing it selfe a meere stranger Certainely t is few mens exercise to study conscience their owne conscience Indeede Flyes are busie about others sores so is the world about others consciences Euery one now is a master nay one man is many masters law 3.1 He will sit and keepe Court in the conscience of a thousand Lord it ouer his brethren his betters iudging all callings all professions all consciences but his owne I will dot spend breath vpon such as barke at all good because they would haue none in the world I wish that all the paines of some Professors were not speat in this euen in rifling others consciences rather than their owne Religion religion is something else than a iudging of other men After meare the heate should repayne homeward not flye as farre off from the heart and stomacke as the body will beare it and when we haue heard a Sermon of conscience we should recoyle vpon our selues with What haue I done or What shall I doe not looke vpon another and carue all to him much lesse flye vpon them who stand as farre off vs as the King hath land Oh men vnwise who are more troubled with others diseases than their owne and more desirous of peace in their neighbours houses than at home Well Paul would haue beene sorry to see his neighbour suffer shipwracke but yet hee is most chary of his owne vessell lest that should dash and receine some bruise by no meanes would he haue his conscience offended But out vpon such Christians as this age brings forth feare of man hope of gain loue of honour of case of fauour will make them run ouer their conscience and all Gods mounds Rather than the man will endure the frownes of his Master the wise of her husband the tenant of his Landlord hee will lye cousin sweare runne ride doe anie thing on the Sabbath nay for one pound shilling groat penny you may hyre a man to gash his conscience so little care haue men of giuing it offence But how farre stretches Pauls care To all cases to all persons To all To all certainly at all times first towards God secondly towards man Towards God Marke this all yee Ciuilians that cry out as Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 3. of disorder so yee of Conscience What conscience what conscience when you are worst your selues A good conscience must begin with God you neyther begin nor end there A mecre carnall ciuill man is all for man nothing for God he payes men their owne liues quietly and fairely to the world-ward and therefore thinks himselfe a man of conscience But what conscience is in this to deale wel with the subiect and not with the Prince What conscience in breaking the first article of agreement betweene God and man which is to know him What conscience to dwell in Gods house and pay him no rent to enter into bonds and neuer thinke of payment to smite God with oathes for mans oft fences to steale away time from God when hee hath giuen vs much Shew mee a meere carnall ciuill man that makes conscience of the first second third or fourth Commandement of gerting knowledge of setting vp God in his house of forbearing an oath of keeping the Sabbath c. Verily where there is no God there can be no confidence And such a man is without God in the world For the second Pauls conscience reacht to men also Let all Professors as they wil be called note this A good conscience begins with God but ends in Man A conscionable man as he must be a professor hearer louer of the Word a keeper of the Sabbath a zealous obseruer of the first Table so must he be a peaceable iust sober free kinde honest man and deale squarely with all men Thus it should be But O times O manners now Profession is become loathsome and to say the truth the behauiour of many is such that it would make an vnsettled man call into question all Profession all Religion all Conscience almost We talke of Conscience but where is it who makes conscience of his words who of his bargaines who of his place or promise Euery man cries out of other but who discharges his owne part Wee haue a saying in Gods Book He that prouides not for his kindred is worse than an Infidell What cares the rich if his poore kinsman starue We haue a precept Husbands loue your wiues What conscience is made of this We haue a commandement Speak not euill of the ruler Wee haue a charge Doe good against euill A charge Toyle not to bee rich Defraud not Whisper not c. A command Be rich in good workes Fashion not your selues to the world What shall 's say to these things Is there a conscience at all Any ceraintie in the Word at all Any heauen any hell What doe we mean thus to slubber ouer matters If we belecue nothing meane nothing in good earnest why doe wee dissemble why forbeare wee any thing If we be in earnest in one comandement why not in all If in one thing why not in euery thing as Paul was He was still like himselfe at all times in all cases We haue our reserued cases One wil be a Christian and a man of conscience but hee hath his infirmitie hee doth nor loue his wife Another will be your hearer but hee must liue by his trade A third will be your conuert so you will helpe him to