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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61865	Conscience the best friend upon earth: or, The happy effects of keeping a good conscience Very useful for this age. By Henry Stubbes, Minister of the Gospel.	Stubbes, Henry, 1606?-1678.	1677 (1677)	Wing S6029C; ESTC R222100	33,441	135

thou art the man and yet for all this Judas's Conscience was not awake This is indeed matter of admiration that a mans Conscience should be so fast asleep But how many Instances of such sleepy Consciences doth this very age afford But doth Judas's Conscience sleep always No. Then Judas which betrayed him when he saw that Jesus was condemned he brought again the 30 pieces of Silver to the Chief Priests and said I have sinned in that I have betrayed Innocent blood But miserable comforters were those Christ-Buyers they bought him to be crucified they did reply to him when he said I have sinned What is that to us see thou to that And he cast down the thirty pieces of Silver in the Temple and went and hanged himself And now his Conscience was so awake that it would not suffer him to live I assure you howsoever Conscience may be asleep for a great while yet the time will come that Conscience will do it's office and therefore it doth greatly concern us to take great care that Conscience may have no occasion to reproach us O happy Judas if thou hadst never made a bargain to sell thy Master and hadst never sought opportunity to betray him O happy if thou hadst never accompanyed the Band of Souldiers that came to apprehend him But he came along with the Band of Souldiers and gave them the Sign The Man whom I shall kiss is the Man hold him fast yet Conscience did not reproach him But let Men do what they can to stop the mouth of Conscience it will speak at last and they will be biting words Carnal Reasonings cannot stop it Carnal Pleasures cannot bribe it nor any variety of diversions silence it Cain you know he was quiet awhile Gen 4. 13. But after a while Cain's Conscience did reproach him would not let him alone Belshazzar he is merry a while with his Courtiers and Companions in drinking Wine in Bowls but after he falls a trembling and his knees smote one against the other and he grew pale when he saw the hand writing on the wall Conscience will fee an hand writing not on the wall but in this book I have spoken with some poor Souls that could say This word is against me and that word is against me there are words enough in this Book against you Conscience will one day awake and reproach and will not be bribed will not have its mouth stopt This is one great reason why we should be careful so to live that Conscience may not reproach us while we live for the reproches of Conscience are unavoidable Reason II. Another reason why we should take all possible care that Conscience may have no occasion to reproach us is because the reproaches of Conscience are Intolerable there will be no bearing of them A wounded Spirit who can bear None are able to bear it Many instances might be given you may read Job 7. 13 14 15. When I say my bed shall comfort me my couch shall ease my complaint then thou scarest me with dreams and terri●iest me with visions so that my soul chuseth strangling and death rather then life Oh Sirs what a case will the terrours and accusations of Conscience bring the poor creature into Job 10. 1. My soul is weary of my life I will leave my complaint upon my self c. Psalm 32. 3 4. When I kept silence my bones-waxed old through my roaring all the day c. All this was occasioned through the reproaches of Conscience I might add Prov. 12. 25. Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh a man to stoop I have known those that have been bowed together by reason of the agonies of Conscience I knew one at whose Eyes and Ears Bloud hath gushed forth by reason of the Agonies of Conscience Prov. 17. 22. A merry heart doth good like a medicine but a broken spirit dries the bones You know Judas did chuse rather to die than endure it Bilney and Baynham after they had abjured felt such pangs such a Hell in their Consciences till they had openly professed their sorrow for it as they would not have felt again for all the World Daniel chose rather to be cast into the Lions Den then to carry a Lion in his bosom viz. an enraged Conscience Richard the Third was a terror to himself after he had murdered his two innocent Nephews Charles the Ninth of Fran●e after that bloudy Massacre by which his Conscienc was enraged could not endure to be awakened in the night without Musick or some other diversion Thus much for the Reasons of the Point I proceed to the Application Vse 1. Of Reproof The first Use shall be for Reproof of those that take no such care to avoid the Reproaches of Conscience but do that which will be cast by Conscience as a Reproach upon them another day How do some for many years together heap up Fuel to keep a Fire burning within them No sooner is some Fuel spent but there is more Fuel heapt on again fresh sins are committed and after a while these sins come to remembrance and set the Fire a burning It may be a man may weather it out a little but then more sins come to light and that sets the Fire a burning again and so there is no end Conscience hath not forgotten any thing done many years ago but remembers it as if it had been done but yesterday You that cannot endure to be reproached that cannot endure to hear others reproached that cannot bear the Reproaches of Men whenas it may be they reproach wrongfully how will you bear not the false but true Accusations of Conscience Men may reproach falsly but Conscience will reproach truly Men may reproach thee and yet thine own Conscience may clear thee when they accuse thee but if Conscience reproach thee then who shall clear thee Men may grow weary or ashamed of reproaching thee but if Conscience reproach thee will that grow weary or ashamed No never If some men reproach us others may clear us but if Conscience reproach us who then can clear us This should humble us that we have given Conscience occasion to reproach us 2 Sam. 24. 1. If you have not taken this care to avoid the Reproaches of Conscience it will reproach you as it did David whose Heart smote him after he had numbered the People and David said unto the Lord I have sinned greatly in that I have done I beseech thee O Lord to take away the iniquity of thy servant for I have done very foolishly Davids Heart smote him now his Conscience now his Conscience smites and cuts him to the very Heart Though his Conscience were quiet a great while Psal. 73. 21 22. yet afterwards he thus complains Thus my heart was grieved and I was pricked in my reins so foolish was I and ignorant I was as a beast before thee If you neglect Conscience when it points with the finger and gives direction assure your selves Conscience will have a