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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47000	The black book of conscience, or, God's high court of iustice in the soul wherein the truth and sincerity, the deceit and hypocrisie of every mans heart and ways is judged and discovered by their consciences : very seasonable for these times wherein wicked men, under pretence of liberty of conscience, take liberty to sin and blaspheme / by Andrew Iones.	Jones, Andrew.	1663 (1663)	Wing J906; ESTC R29450	10,659	26

THE BLACK BOOK OF CONSCIENCE OR Gods High Court of Iustice in the SOUL Wherein the Truth and Sincerity the Deceit and Hypocrisie of every mans Heart and Ways is judged and discovered by their consciences Very seasonable for these Times wherein wicked men under pretence of Liberty of Conscience take liberty to sin and Blaspheme The 22th Edition By Andrew Iones The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it I the Lord search the heart I try the reins even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doing Ier. 17.9 Vnto the pure all things are pure but to them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even ther Mind and Conscience is defiled Tit. 1.15 Take heed to your selves what conscience ye have For conscience will damn and conscience will save London Printed for Eliz. Andrews at the White-Lyon near Pye-Corner 1663 The Black Book of CONSCIENCE Revel 20.12 And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the Books were opened And another Book was opened which is the Book of Life and the dead were judged of those things which were written in the Books according to their works AS there are several books of God which he hath written for the good of all the children of men so there are two special books by which the Lord will procēed in Iudgement against all the sons and daughters of men The books which God hath given to the children of men for their use and comfort of salvation are these First and chiefly the books of the Old and New Testament where in ●esus Christ in all his Offices King Priest ●nd Prophet for us to rule and guide us by his Spirit in our hearts is made known and de●●ared unto us And therein likewise is set down how every one of us ought to live an● demean himself in this present world with ●●veral fearful Examples of Gods heavy judg●ments against wicked and notorious sinner in drowning the old World for their sins a●● wickedness as you may sée in the sixth of G●●nesis So likewise in destroying Sodom G●●morrah by fire from Heaven Gen. 19.24 2● And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gom●●rah Fire and Brimstone and over threw tho● Cities and all their inhabitants With sund●● ot her fearful examples of Gods heavy wra●● and indignation both against sin and sinner in general particular All which as St. Ju●● saith in his Epistle are set forth for our examples suffering the vengeance of the etern●● fire Not for our examples that we should 〈◊〉 as they did but that we should be afraid to 〈◊〉 as they did to commit such sins lest the Lo●● lay upon us such or more heavier weights wrath and vengeance So likewise in the book of the Scripture set forth the blessed and happy estate and condition of all the godly both in this life in the life to come as̄ you may sée Psa 1. and 15. and 91. The godly man shall be delivered from the snare of the Fowler and from the noisome P●stilence And because he hath made the Lo●● his refuge there shall no evil befal him So I shall give his Angels charge over him for to ●eep him in all his ways v. 80 21. The joys ●●●t are prepared for the godly and the eternal ●orments that are appointed for the wicked ●●e here likewise set forth in the Book of the ●cripture as you may sée Mat. 15.34 41. To ●e godly Come ye blessed of my Father saith ●hrist inherit the Kingdom prepared for you ●●om the beginning of the world But to the ●●godly Depart from me ye cursed into ever●●sting fire prepared for the devil his Angels Another great book of God is the book of the ●reature containing those mighty works both 〈◊〉 the Creation and Providence wherein the ●lmightiness Power and Goodness of God ●●e so plainly written that he that runs may ●●ad and sée it for as the Apostle saith Rom. ● The invisible things of him from the cre●●ion of the world are clearly seen being un●erstood saith the Apostle by the things that ●●e made even his eternal power Godhead that they are without excuse Who but an ●lmighty God could out of nothing create all things and being created rule and govern all things As David saith It is nothing but the ●lmighty Power and Providence of God that ●ears up the earth and upholds the foundation thereof And this Book even the very hea●ens who know not God in his word who never heard of Iesus Christ or Salvation are acquainted with they I say by séeing and reading the mighty works of God in the world do confess and say Verily their is God and none but a God could create those glorious cretures the Sun Moon and Stars So likewise there are two special Books by which God will judge all the sons and daughters of men at the last And these are first the book of his remembrance written by himself wherein the lives of all men yea their very thoughts are recorded as David saith Psa 94.11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men that they are vanity And Psa 129 1 2 3 4. saith David O Lord thou hast searched me and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and my uprising thou understandest my thoughts afar off Thou compasseth my path and my lying down and art acquainted with all my ways There is not a word in my mouth but thou O Lord knowest it altogether And although the heart of man as Jeremiah saith Jer. 17.9 10. is deceitful above all things yet God hath exactly known every turning corner thereof I the Lord know the heart saith he I try the reins There is nothing can be hid from his eternal all-seeing eye And then secondly there is the book of collscience in which is exactly written all our actions thoughts words and deeds and according to this book of conscience and what is therein written will the Lord proceed in judgment and every mans conscience shall be his own Judge Saith God what hast thou done How hast thou lived in the World Why thus and thus have I lived saith Conscience Conscience will then speak the truth and nothing but the truth O Lord saith a wicked mans conscience I have dishonoured thy name I have abused thy grace and mercy in ●urning it into wantonness I have abused thy treatures by wastful and riotous spending to please and satisfie my lust saith the Prodigal mans conscience And by chambring and wantonness by gaming and dicing away precious ●ime faith the lascivious and voluptuous mans conscience Thou gavest me times and ●easons of grace mercy and many precious ●pportunities and soul-advantages whereby I might have wrought out my own salvation ●ith fear and trembling and as Peter saith I might have made my calling and election sure ●o mine own soul but instead of working out my own salvation with fear and trembling ●n making my calling and