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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18036	The conscionable Christian: or, The indeuour of Saint Paul, to haue and discharge a good conscience alwayes towards God, and men laid open and applyed in three sermons. Preached before the honourable judges of the circuit, at their seuerall assises, holden in Chard and Taunton, for the county of Somerset. 1620. By Richard Carpenter, Doctor of Diuinity, and pastor of Sherwell in Deuon.	Carpenter, Richard, 1575-1627.	1623 (1623)	STC 4681; ESTC S107676	65,416	130

and therefore the Hebrewes aptly call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prou. 15. 15. Prou. 15. 15. and the Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is heart or soule 1. Ioh. 3. 20. 1. Ioh. 3. Lastly I giue it the title of Gods Register and deputy-Iudge because it is onely inferiour to God and vnder him holds court in the soule of man and is the principall commander and chiefe controller of all his doings and desires determining of all his actions either with him to excuse and absolue or against him to accuse and condemne and that for the conuersion of some and confusion of others The conscience endowed with these royalties The vnderstanding Metropolis of conscience resideth I confesse principally in the vnderstanding as her Metropolis Palace-Throne and thereby exerciseth her chiefe functions but yet in the whole soule commonly called the consistory of conscience she keepeth a compleat court and in the seuerall parts thereof produceth occasionally seuerall operations whence in common speech we say My conscience tels me I did this or did not that ther 's an action of the memory My conscience bids mee or forbids me to doe this ther 's an action of the will And againe It smites me checks me it comforts or torments me What are these but acts of the affections recoyling vpon the soule And certaine it is that whensoeuer conscience reasoneth with it selfe and maketh a practicall Syllogisme concerning the doing of that which is lawfull and auoyding of that which is vnlawfull it hath some helpe from all the faculties both Theorick and Practicke as when that part of conscience which the Ancients call Synteresis because as a treasury of rules and directions it keepes the grounds of the Law naturall and the principles of truth and equity shall make thus the proposition All adulterers and Syll. Cons oppressours are worthy of fearfull punishment and hereupon that other part called Syneidesis as an eye-witnesse and remembrancer of all thy doings shall make thus the assumption But thou hast committed adultery and oppression and shall conuince thee thereof by all circumstances of persons time and place whereupon followes an ineuitable conclusion In all this illatiue discourse who sees not a mutuall dependency on the mind will and memory which moues me to affirme Conscience to be a diuine power compounded of them all Whereat Basil Basil aimed when he tearmed it Naturale iudicatorium and Origen glanced when he calles it Paedagogus Origen in 2. ad Rom. animae sociatus and the Philosophers when they speake of a mans bonus genius but he Greg. spake best that cald it a booke ad quem emendandum omnes scripti sunt libri for whose sake all other bookes are written all other are but glosses vpon this Text. And cursed bee that Commentary which corrupts the Text of conscience Vse To all here present both learned and vnlearned I must commend this Text this book whatsoeuer thou art which seekest for counsel to know what thou maist doe by law consult with this booke of conscience first and see what it saith it is an excellent booke euen in thine owne bosome written by the finger of God in such plaine Characters and so legible that though thou knowest not a letter in any other booke yet thou maist reade this nay thou canst not for thy life but reade it and vnderstand it too and yeeld to the truth and equity thereof when it pleaseth God to turne thy eyes vpon it Open this booke then and see what is written in this Law how readest thou Luk. 10. 26. Ponder vpon it conferre with it it is thy cheapest and faithfullest counsellour at home thou needest not be at cost to seeke aduice abroad it is stored with singular precepts and principles concerning the knowledge and practice of good and euill perswading to the one disswading from the other Hearken then vnto it reade it in time for thy direction lest thou bee forced to looke vpon it too late to thy destruction it may be the light thereof by thy naturall blindnesse is much obscured and that the text letters thereof by affected ignorance and wilfull malice are more blurred and euen blotted out Oh then compare it with Gods Booke and labour by the helpe of Gods Ministers to haue it reformed and rectified Happy is that man that hath a liuing feeling and waking conscience for this shall keepe him so that he shall either not commit sinne or not continue long therein but the crying voyce of his conscience will rowze him out of the bed of security as the crowing Cocke did Peter and bring him to Math. 26. repentance and blessed is that repentance and obedience which is wrought by the power and command of a rectified conscience And thus hauing made a short surueigh of the nature of conscience as it is great and Gods lieutenant in the soule of man working more forcibly on all the parts and powers thereof then all other agents whatsoeuer sitting in the vnderstanding as Iudge to prescribe prohibit absolue and condemne de iure in the memory as Recorder and witnesse testifying de facto in the will and affections as rewarder and punisher pro iure aut iniuria facti I will now with the like breuity and perspicuity speake somewhat of each of these offices distinctly And first of conscience as it writes downe and keepes in record all our doings Secondly as it passeth sentence of them with vs or against vs Thirdly as it executeth the sentence determinate First conscience as a Scribe or Notary sitting 1. Office Hieroglyphic in the closet of mans heart with pen in hand records and keepes a Catalogue or Diary of all our doings of the time when place where the manner how they were performed and that so cleere and euident that goe where we will doe what wee can the characters of them cannot be cancelled or razed She omitteth no default through slownesse of hand neither strikes shee out any debt through deceit like the vniust Steward that bade put downe Luk. 16. 6. fifty for an hundred she cannot bee corrupted to conceale our faults or smothered by tract of time not to check vs for them as appeared in Iosephs brethren whose consciences troubled Gen. 42. 21. them in Egypt for that cruelty which many yeeres before they had shewed towards their Brother in Canaan It is good therefore for vs to agree with conscience in time and in all our wayes to seeke her approbation And as the reuerend Martyr B. Latimer tooke speciall care to Fox Mart. the placing of his words in his examination before Bonner when he heard the pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth and describing whatsoeuer he said So ought we circumspectly to looke to all our doings and sayings and to guard watch and ward our senses which are Aug. the gates and cinque-ports of corruption and lusts sith that conscience is not onely the curious super-visor but the