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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26714	Instructions about heart-work what is to be done on Gods part, and ours, for the cure and keeping of the heart, that we may live in the exercise and growth of grace here, and have a comfortable assurance of glory to eternity / by that eminent Gospel-Minister Mr. Richard Allein, author of Vindiciæ pietatis.	R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.	1681 (1681)	Wing A994; ESTC R19556	262,157	306

upon conscience Guilt Guile 1. Guilt there is guilt upon the conscience every sin leaves guilt behind it The whole world is become guilty before God Rom. 3.15 Because the whole world are sinners or subject to the Judgment of God But then there is guilt upon the man and guilt upon the conscience There are some sins that leave guilt upon the man but do not immediatly leave guilt upon the conscience as sins of ignorance these leave guilt upon the man but not allways upon the conscience because such sins conscience does not nor can take notice of and so they cannot be called sins against conscience Guilt there is upon conscience 1. When conscience through remissness or neglect does not take notice of them nor charge the soul to take heed of them 2. When though conscience does know sin to be sin and those particular acts that I am tempted to to be sinful acts yet lust prevails to bring us on upon the commission of them against conscience Thou knowest that lying is a sin thy conscience tells thee so and yet thou wilt lye Thou knowest that drunkenness that defrauding that profaning the sabbath that neglect to pray and to hear are sins And thy conscience tells thee they are and yet thou wilt lye or be drunk or work or travel upon the Lords day neglect to pray c. This leaves a guilt upon thy conscience O how great O how dreadful guilt is there upon the consciences of many of us How many bills of indictment will thy conscience have to bring forth against thee before thy Judge The guilt of neglecting Christ the guilt of hardning thy heart against mercy besides all the guilt of thine oaths and of thy drunkenness and of thy covetousness and of thy lying and stealing and scoffing all this guilt lyes upon thee and this is one thing that conscience must be recovered from ere it can be a good conscience 2. Guile or falshood or treachery of conscience Conscience will juggle and deal deceitfully it will dispense with or give allowance of sin it will connive and wink at iniquity Some sins which can be better spared it resists others such as interest or inclination lead more strongly to it lets them pass and will not see them to be sin and therefore dares not examine whether they be sin or no. This is a guileful conscience it is true of Christians what is said of Nathaniel Joh. 1.47 An Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile Psal 32.2 Blessed is the man in whose spirit there is no guile This is a good conscience that is plain and honest and faithful Heb. 13.18 We trust ye have a good conscience in all things willing to live honestly Now these being the diseases in conscience guilt and guile from these we must get them recovered and their recovery must be wrought by bloud and water By the bloud of Christ Heb. 5.14 How much more shall the loud of Christ purge your consciences And by water also by he water of sanctification and by the water of repentance Penitent tears have their use to the washing of conscience Sinners take heed have no guilt upon your consciences have you no guile in your consciences O how dreadfully guilty O how miserably guileful hath that conscience of thine been Get your consciences purged get the bloud of Christ to be sprinkled upon them Draw water so the pouring forth penitent tears is expressed .. 1. Sam. 7.6 They drew water and poured it forth before the Lord and fasted that day Draw water sinners weep before the Lord for your sins and this will be the washing your consciences from the guilt and guile that is upon them 2. Keep conscience working Though method would require that I speak to this of keeping conscience under the next general the keeping of the heart yet I choose rather to speak to it here Keep conscience working A lazy sleeping conscience is good for nothing it is a stirring working conscience that does its office that must industriously be maintained Conscience hath 1. An eye 2. A Book 3. A Tongue 4. A Scepter 1. An eye And the eye of conscience must be kept open The eye of conscience is even as the eye of God it may be said of conscience in its measure as of God Psal 139.2.3 Thou knowest my down fitting and uprising thou understandest my thoughts and art acquainted with all my wayes The eye of conscience beholds our very inwards all things are naked and open even before that conscience with which we have to do and this is somthing you have to keep you doing to keep the eye of conscience open Let not conscience wink at your follies let it see and observe what ever you do 2. A Book A Register or book of records where it writes down what it sees Jer. 17.1 The sin of Judah is written It is graven upon the tables of the hearts the meaning there is it hath entered into their hearts it hath corrupted and eaten into their hearts there are the scars and impressions of it upon them Their iniquities have marked them and marked them in their very hearts for vile and ungodly ones This graving of sin upon the heart notes the hearts defilement the corrupting of the heart But then there is a writing for remembrance a writing of scores or books of account and thus mens sins are written in the book of conscience now this also must be looked to that conscience be faithful and book down all our sins that they may be remembred by us and repented of The book of conscience will be written whether men will or no if conscience will be negligent and will not write down its own faults God will do it and will write down all our sins if conscience will not If we mark not God will mark them Jer. 2.22 Thine iniquity is marked before me If we record not God will record them What conscience writes conscience may read and remember but what God writes upon the neglect of conscience sinners cannot read or remember now but there it shall all be to be seen at the great day of accounts when the book shall be opened and read before Angels and men Sinners what is there written in those books within you Are your sins written there Hath conscience kept a record of them It is well if it have look into that book read over and remember all your ways go and ask thy conscience if thou hast not been a Lyar if thou hast not been a swearer a Drunkard a covetous liver a flesh pleaser ask thy conscience if it hath not been so How many have been thy lyes how many have been thine oathes how many drunken bouts how many rioting days how many greedy and covetous practices hast thou been guilty of Look into that book in thy bosom if conscience hath been faithful there thou maiest read and remember and so come to be humbled for them But if conscience hath not noted these things but