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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80475	The deputy divinity or, inferiour deity and subordinate God in the world, Conscience, I say, 1 Cor.10.29. A discourse of conscience, being the substance of two sermons, delivered: one of them at the Temple-church in London: the other in the countrey. / By Henry Carpenter, Minister of the gospel at Steeple-Ashton in Wilts.	Carpenter, Henry, 1605 or 6-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing C614; Thomason E1711_1; ESTC R209576	23,781	132

THE Deputy Divinity OR Inferiour Deity AND Subordinate God in the World Conscience I say 1 Cor. 10.29 A Discourse of Conscience Being the substance of Two Sermons delivered One of them at the Temple-church in London The other in the Countrey By HENRY CARPENTER Minister of the Gospel at Steeple-Ashton in Wilts London Printed for N. Webb W. Grantham at the Bear over-against the little North-door in Pauls Church-yard 1657. To the Truly RELIGIOUS AND Right Noble Lady THE LADY Dorothy Pakington The Promises of both lives Madam MY Gratefull Purposes long since engaged to your Ladyships service were never yet so Advantaged by opportunity as to make the World the witnesse of their sincerity Difficult and perplexed times occasion too much neglect of duty and make place for pardon This little Book and small Comment upon one of the greatest Books in the world whereof I humbly present you with the Dedication hath nothing to commend it up so high as your hands but the weight of the Subject and the simple integrity of the Author obliged not more to the memory of your dear Father my very good Lord and Patron of undefiled hands then to your own merits and excellencies whereof I had once the honour to be an unworthy Servant and have still the duty to be an observer and admirer As for my self I must know who I am but for this thing here in hand I may wish it laid to heart for a Jewel is a Jewel though wrapt up in plain leather or in brown paper Now that the God whom you serve in your spirit and Family would in blessing blesse you in all your Relations and that the same God who hath so begun to glorifie you in those graces wherewith he hath enriched your soule making you an eminent and unfeigned example of Goodnesse even in this Age will also Perfect and Crowne these graces with Glory Is the Prayer of Madam Your Ladiships Humble Faithful Servant For Jesus and Conscience-sake H. CARPENTER To the Reader Christian Reader THat which one spake of his learned Tractates Justus Lipsius Politicks B. King on Jonas Nihil egisine Theseis Et nihil nostrum omnia and another from him of his rich Lectures may the lesse mis-become me of this plain poor piece of mine That I have done little herein without good guides And though in one sense all may be mine own yet in another not much more then nothing For where I liked the waters of other mens wells I drank deep and elswhere I did but sip And as one observes of Ruth I have sometime but stood to glean Rab. Solom and sometime sitten down Here it is such as it is presented to thy good acceptance if here and there it give thee any new lesson blesse God for thy Instructor And where it doth but rub up the old despise not thy Remembrancer who hurts none by these but himself in the danger of the attempt changing Tongue into Pen and eares into eyes The severer of the two But that which discourageth many provoketh me of purpose to shew how hardy I dare seem rather then be ungratefull to those my many friends who have required this at my hands for thy good which if thou finde remember God in thy praise and me in thy prayers H. C. THE Deputy-Divinity OR Inferiour Deity AND Subordinate God in the world 1 Cor. 10.29 Conscience I say WHAT one said well of Lawes That many good Laws were made but there wanted one Law to make us put all those Laws in execution The like may we say of Books and Sermons Many good Books are written and many good Sermons preached but there wanteth one Book one Sermon to make us put all the other in practise and that were good indeed worthy of the reading and hearing And I know none more likely through God to do this thing than upon this subject of Conscience I may commend the Text though not the Sermon which being good as one said of Justice is a Synopsis and Epitomy of all vertues a medicine to cure all soul-diseases and to deject all book-surfeitings Conscience it self is a Book Rev. 20.12 one of those Books to be opened at the last day to which all men shal be put and by which they shall be tried and judged viz. The Book of the Creatures The Book of the Scriptures The Book of the Conscience A Book of Books for the Informing and Reforming whereof all other books should be Printed and Sermons Preached for indeed what should all Divinity-books and Law-books be but glosses and Comments upon this Text Maledicta Glossa quae corrumpit Textum And cursed be that Gloss which doth corrupt the Text viz. Goe against Conscience The wise man makes as if all other books and studies without this Eccle. 12.12 13. and in comparison of this were vain and endlesse of making many books there is no end True saith the Gloss upon it Of books that are written to no end There are great outcries made against places times and the World for being naught and bad But alas All places naturally are equal being but several parcels of the same common Earth and Air and all times naturally are equal being distinguished by the same constant and uniforme motion of the Heavens what aile places or times or the world They were all good if men were so and men were all good if their Consciences were so nothing maketh bad times but bad men and nothing maketh bad men but bad Consciences Ill Consciences are the springs and pipes from whence come all the evils that spoyl places times Mat. 15.18 19. and world And I know no remedy to that of Elisha's curing the naughty waters of Jerico for the cry there was for sound much the same The waters are naught 2 King 2.19 21 22. c. He cast salt into the spring and healed the waters The water-spring of all our actions good or evil is Conscience Prov. 4.23 and as mens Consciences are so are their actions as the spring is so is the issue The issues of life and death are out of the heart and Conscience The spring of all O that God would cast salt into the spring heale and mend Conscience and all will be mended For good Consciences make good men and good men will make good places times and World Conscience I say Here I find Conscience as in common and in general therefore shall not trouble you with particular context here where is intended no longer stay than while we have to do with Conscience in generall Conscience I say Wherein I propose unto my self and your attention for order sake this Method 1. The Truth of it That there is such a thing Though the Text be not divided by parts Yet the Discourse should be limited by bounds which is so called 2. The Nature of it What this thing is which is so called 3. The Original and condition Whence and what manner of thing