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A59953	A few vvords concerning conscience what it is; and what estate it was in before transgression. And how it became darkened, defiled and corrupted; and how again it may be enlightened, cleansed, purified and set at liberty, as it was before sin entred. Intermixt with a few words concerning persecution among the diverse sects in Christendom (and upon the face of all the earth); shewing, that they all arise for want of true liberty of conscience; and what that liberty is. William Shewen.	Shewen, William, 1631?-1695.	1675 (1675)	Wing S3421; ESTC R221163	20,764	49

Fruit of Mankind hating the Light and running and walking and working in Darkness leads Men to hate * envy and persecute one another about them And all these Things come to pass amongst Mankind for want of believing in the Light Grace Spirit and Power of God that shines appears and operates in the Mind Heart and Conscience of Mankind according to the State it finds him in either to reprove or commend justifie or condemn which Light Grace and Spirit is one and leads all that obey it and follow it into Oneness of Mind Oneness of Heart and into the One standing and everlasting Worship which is in the Spirit and in the Truth where Acceptance is felt and the Light of God's Countenance enjoyed the Partition-Wall broken down and the Enmity slain and the Serpent's Head bruised within by the springing up of the promised Seed and powerful Appearance of Christ within who leadeth into that blessed Love and Charity which never faileth which thinketh no Evil where the rejoycing is not in Iniquity but in the Truth And whoever thou art that readest these Things and art not come to witness within thy self the virtuous Efficacy of the Power Life and Blood of Jesus to cleanse purge and purifie thy Mind Heart and Conscience from all that doth defile and set them at perfect Liberty to serve the Lord and to lead thee into the heavenly City where the Book of Life is kept and to see thy Name written therein and also his Name imprinted in thy Forehead bearing his heavenly Image as thou hast born the earthly I say except thou knowest these Things wrought by the Spirit and Power of God in thee and for thee thy Mind Heart and Conscience remains defil'd and under Bondage to thine own Inventions private Opinions and Notions and he that is called the Prince of the Air rules in thy heart and thou art captivated and carried away with the windy Doctrines Rudimens and carnal Ordinances and Traditions of men and art tasting touching and handling those Things which perish with the using and art prone liable to bite tear murder and devour thy Brother and Neighbour about them so art as a whited Wall and painted Sepulchre and professing Hypocrite and Titular Christian a direct Phanatick and Sectarian and art like Cain a Fugitive in the Earth which God hath cursed that brings forth Bryars and Thorns which tear the Sheep and hurt the Lilly this is thy State and Condition let thy Talk Profession Notion Opinion Form and Fashion of Religion be what it will and whether thou art a Jew Mahometan Papist or Protestant while thy Mind Heart and Conscience is defiled darkened captivated and bound under with the Chains of Opinion Tradition and Precepts of men thou canst not enjoy Liberty of Conscience thy self nor suffer others and if thou compassest Sea and Land to make Proselytes to thy Opinion and Tradition and hast Power to force and compel an Outward Conformity to the same thou makest them two fold more the Children of Hell then before Force Cruelty and Violence may make Hypocrites and Formalists but No True Worshippers of God in the Spirit nor Christians indeed Finally to Force and Compel by Corporal Punishments in Matters of Conscience and Religion is infallibly contrary to and inconsistent with the very Nature of true Religion and Being of Christianity And among whomsoever it s found and practised 't is an evident Demonstration that the Pure Religion they are ignorant of and Strangers to and such are only Christians in Name and Opinion and of a dark narrow private self-conceited spirit priding it self with it own Notions and lofty Imaginations grounded upon the Education and Tradition received from his Fore-Fathers and the carnal Comprehensions and Conceivings of his own corrupt Heart from the ancient Writings of Holy Men hence it is that every Sect and Opinionist like so many Beasts with Horns push one against another hate bite tear and devour one another each endeavouring to sit down as a Queen in the Seat of the Scornful exercising themselves in things that are too high Imperiously measuring trying and judging his Brother and Neighbour who differs from him by his selfish carnal dark exalted spirit who passeth under and assumes the Name of a Sheep though in Nature and Work he be a Wolf and if this Beast of Prey hath Horns and Claws strong enough to make Spoil according to its Nature it would hardly leave the Bones till the morrow This is the Generation whose Teeth are as Swords Proverbs 30 14. and their Jaw-Teeth as Knives to devour the Poor from off the Earth and the Needy from among men this is the Generation also who are pure in their own Eyes yet are not washed from their Filthiness but is as a polluted Leper full of Sores from the Crown of the Head to the Sole of the Foot From this Generation ariseth the Cry and Violence against the Innocent as Hereticks and Blasphemers haling them before Magistrates and hurrying them to Goals Inquisitions Gallowses and Fire tearing the Flesh from the Bones and the Lise from the Body about Matters of Religion Church Faith Worship and Conscience all which is infallibly the Fruit and Effect of that Spirit of Cain that Envious Sacrifices that can Worship with one Hand and Murder with the other call God Father and with the same Tongue call Christ Jesus a Blasphemer Deceiver and Child of the Devil and lay their Wicked Hands upon him as an Evil-doer not fit to live this is and hath been the Work of all the Private Carnal Dark Self-conceited Opinionsts in Christendom who are all Members of the False Church and of the Great City Mystery Babylon whose Citizens are all of defiled Minds corrupt Heares and darkened misguided if not seared Consciences And none of this Work hath been nor never will be found in the true Church nor among the Citizens of the heavenly Ferusalem whose Defence and Weapons never was nor will be Carnal but Spiritual and Mighty through God to the breaking and casting down every thing that exalteth it self against the Prosperity thereof whose Warfare was never against mens Bodies Lives nor Estates to destroy the One and possess the Other neither do the Thoughts thereof enter into the Heart of a True Christian to Hurt his Brother or Neighbour because of Difference in Religion and Understanding of things relating thereto Yet the True Church hath its Way and Means of Defence and every living Member thereof is in its Place and Capacity engaged and bound by the Law of the Spirit of Life and in the Universal Love of God ☞ to be watchful and diligent against the creeping in of Selfish Private Opinions and the broaching of Damnable Doctrines or the growing up of any hurtful Weeds in the Garden of God but as I have said this Defence is spiritual viz. the Light Power and Spirit of God revealed in the Inward Parts this Church puts on the whole Armour of Light the

A Few VVords Concerning CONSCIENCE WHAT IT IS And what Estate it was in before TRANSGRESSION And how it became Darkened Defiled and Corrupted And how again it may be Enlightened Cleansed Purified and set at Liberty as it was before Sin entred Intermixt with a few Words concerning Persecution among the diverse Sects in Christendom and upon the Face of all the Earth shewing that they all arise for Want of True Liberty of Conscience and what that Liberty is William Shewen Printed in the Year 1675. A Few VVords Concerning CONSCIENCE What it is c. COnscience is generally to be understood to be such a Being Subject Which Capacity is as a Book capable to contain what is written or imprinted therin and may be not only opened and shut but blotted and stained also Faculty or Capacity in Mankind which is wanting in all the Beasts of the Field Fish of the Sea and Fowls of the Air and in this Capacity Mankind differs from and excels them all being created in and endued with such a Capacity wherein and whereby he is enabled to participate of the Divine Nature to partake of the Beams of its Glory to Meditate Contemplate Consolate Delight and Refresh himself in the Light Law and Glory of his Maker which Capacity is not to be found in all the Elements of this World but only in Mankind Now in the Beginning Man's Mind Heart and Conscience was a Heavenly and pure Receptacle These Three are so inseparable that that which defiles the One defiles the Other and that which purifies the One purifies the Other Tabernacle and Dwelling place for the Almighty his Power Wisdom Light and Glory was displayed therein and Mankind was highly exalted thereby above all the Works of his hands And while Mankind stood here in this High and Heavenly Estate The Blessed Estate of Man before the Fall he lived in the Paradice of God enjoying the Light of his Countenance and had Unity with his Maker and could behold his Face with Joy and receive the Reflections of the Beams of Divine Glory shining in his Conscience with Delight living in Dominion over all the Creation his Conscience being Pure he held the Mystery of Faith in it eying the Invisible God through above and beyond all things visible and invisible This was the State of Mankind before the Fall while his Conscience was Pure and Undefiled while he remain'd in that Estate God made him and placed him in who was a Pure Innocent Subject Holy in his Being and Harmless in his Nature all within him and without him was Good yea very Good Now the Wisdom is to understand how that which was Holy and Harmless Innocent Pure and Undefiled did become Evil and Corrupted seeing in this State and Time Evil had not a Being whence could or did the Temptations arise The Wisdom of all men living in the Faln Defiled Estate cannot find out nor search into the Depth of these things The Mysteries of God are hid from the Wise and Prudent and revealed to Babes they are only revealed and made known by the shining of the same Light which was in the Beginning and gives the Children thereof to see to the same Therefore to the same Light and Spirit of God which moved upon the Face of the Waters in the Beginning before the Sun Moon and Stars were created or the Mountains formed which Light now shineth in the Heart of Mankind though Darkness which Light also God hath caused to shine out of Darkness in the Hearts of Thousands in this our Day and Age I say To this Light I chiefly refer and commend thee being indeed the Key of the Mysteries of God and Godliness yet a few Words for the sake of the Captivated and for the opening of that Eye that 's blinded that such may come to see and discern the Things of God and that the Enlightned may by seeing perceive how Mankind at first came to make Shipwrack of Faith and a Good Conscience and avoid doing the like Moses or the Author of Genesis was endued with an Excellent Spirit of Wisdom and Discerning when he comprized the History of the Creation and the State of Mankind therein and indeed I must tell my Reader That nothing short of a Measure of the same Spirit and Divine Wisdom can lead thee into a True Discerning Understanding of the same Nothing skort of the Inspiration of the Almighty gives a True Understanding of the things of his Kingdom he hath exposed the Shell but hath lockt up the Kernel from the Prudent Wit and Comprehension of Man under divers Similitudes and Hieroglyphicks thou mayest read the History and walk in the Field of the Creation yet if thou diggest not deep and find the Pearl and purchase it and like a Wise Merchant Man sell All for it thou wilt be ignorant of the Mystery and remain Poor Blind and Miserable for I intend not to throw Pearls before Swine neither dare I like Hezekiah shew the Treasures of the Lord's House to the Babylonians lest both I and it are carried into Captivity therefore Now it s said They were both * Many Carnal Conceits and Imaginations are and have been at Work among Men to Understand these things but they have not come to the Opening of the Seals nor to the Key of the Mysteries of God and so have divulged their own Carnal and Lucifrian Conceptions Comprehensions and Notions for the Divine Knowledge of God and many have thereby grown Rich Tall and Great in Brain and Head-Knowledge but Poor Low and Small in Experimental Heart Understanding and of the Work of God therein Naked the Man and his Wife and were not ashamed There was then No Cause of Shame in being no Temptation entred into no Sin committed which is the Cause of Shame And it s also said The Serpent was more subtil then all the Beasts of the Field which God had made Now God made nothing but what was Good keeping in its State Bounds wherein God had set and appointed them would so have remained But there being a possibility to break those Bounds and disobey that Law that God had set over them God gave Mankind A Warning thereof and acquainted him with the Penalty thereof also that in the Day he did it he should Dye the Death Now Mankind had Faith in his Maker and in his Conscience found himself bound to obey the Command given him and had Strength to resist the Temptation These Things are to be seen and known in the Light and Wisdom of God beyond what Words can express till the Woman the weaker Vessel believed a Lye and looked upon the Beauty of the Thing presented and let up a Desire to be wise and to know good and evil and to be as Gods so in this Hope of gaining and bettering their Estate became subject unto * Vanity and hereby the Light that shined in the Heart and Conscience became vailed Rom. 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