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A00643	The souls looking-glasse lively representing its estate before God: with a treatise of conscience; wherein the definitions and distinctions thereof are unfolded, and severall cases resolved: by that reverend and faithfull minister of the Word, William Fenner, B.D. sometimes fellow of Pembroke-hall in Cambridge, and late parson of Rochford in Essex.	Fenner, William, 1600-1640.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1640 (1640)	STC 10779; ESTC S101939	116,565	318

spirituall goodnesse left in the other faculties of the soul so neither in conscience But the naturall goodnesse which I mean is nothing else but the veracity of conscience whereby it is inforced according to the knowledge it hath to tell the truth Thus every wicked man hath a good conscience Their conscience is good in that sense their conscience hath this naturall goodnesse that it telleth them the truth how it is with them Nay it is essentiall to conscience to be good in this sense It is the essentiall property of conscience to speak according to its knowledge It is the best faculty a wicked man hath it is better then his mind or heart or will There is more goodnesse in a wicked mans conscience then in any other of the powers of his soul His conscience speaketh more for God then himself doth and standeth more for God then himself will Not but that as all the powers of the soul are desperately corrupted by sinne so conscience is desperately corrupted as well as any of them but I speak of the essentiall goodnesse of it which can never be lost The de●ls in hell have not lost the goodnesse ● their essence Nay their essence is ●etter then the essence of Gods Saints ●●eir essence must be good because that ● God 's creature nay better then any ●ans essence because the Lord made ●●em a degree above man And as man ● a degree above beasts so angels are degree above man so conscience is a ●egree above other powers of the soul ● its naturall goodnesse That consci●ce hath such a naturall goodnesse in it ●e it in those cursed Scribes and Phari●es hypocrites who brought the wo●an taken in adultery to Christ Their ●onscience was good John 8.9 they were convict●● of their consciences their conscien●es dealt honestly with them and told ●hem the truth that they were wicked ●●nners themselves This is the naturall ●oodnesse in conscience 2. A renewed good conscience I ●ll it a renewed good conscience be●ause when a man is renewed all the ●an is renewed all his mind and the ●pirit of it is renewed Ephes 4.23 That ye may be renewed in the spirit of you mind If the man be renewed all th● mind must be renewed and therefo●● the conscience must be renewed too for the mind and the conscience ever g● together nay conscience is mainly seated in the mind and therefore if th● mind be renewed so is the conscience and if the mind be defiled so is the conscience Tit. 1.15 To them that are defiled is nothing pure but their minds a● consciences are defiled Mark When the● are defiled they are defiled together so when they are washed and renewed they are washed and renewed together Now this renewed conscience is eithe● perfect or defective 1. Perfect I mea● not perfect in every degree of goodnesse For so no mans conscience in th● world is perfect But I mean perfect i● every part and condition of goodnesse 2. A defective good renewed conscience is that which faileth in some conditions of goodnesse We call it a we● conscience which is apt to be pollute● and defiled again 1. Cor. 8.7 Their conscience being weak is defiled This is a defective good conscience a conscience ●ewed but imperfectly renewed I. To a good conscience A firm conscience that is ●ndly renewed five things are neces●●●y ● Knowledge of Gods will and ●t which doth follow the true know●●●ge of his will namely true humilia● and fear By nature the conscience ●lind and sturdy and venturous and ●●●refore it is necessary that it should be ●ghtened to understand the will of ●d and to presse it and again it is ne●●●sary that the heart should be hum●d or else it will not stoop to Gods ●l and it is necessary also that this ●y fear should fall upon the heart ●t it may not dare to transgresse St●●●ter being to speak of a good consci●●ce premiseth all these as necessarie ●●●reunto First he adviseth that Chri●●●●ns have knowledge to be able to give ●●ason of the hope that is in them and ●n that they should have meeknesse and 〈◊〉 for to do it 1. Pet. 3.15 16. with meeknesse and ● saith he having a good conscience ●●rk Knowledge and meeknesse and fear are required to make a good conscience without them the conscienc● cannot be good By nature we are al● blind and stubborn and fearlesse of sinning and therefore till we be cured o● these evils our consciences cannot be good 2. The second thing is a watchfulnesse and warfare against sinne Thi● is required too to a renewed good conscience By nature we are drowsie and carelesse and secure and do not stand upon our guard to wage warre against our lusts and the desires of our flesh and so long our consciences can never be good and therefore this spirituall watchfulnesse and mainteining warre against sinne is required to the having a good conscience That thou maist warre a good warrefare saith Paul to Timothie having faith and a good conscience 1. Tim. 1.18 19. Some who seemed to have a good conscience because they did not maintein this holy warfare against sinne and the flesh they have lost it Therefore this is another requisite required to a good conscience 3. The third is tendernesse of conscience By nature our hearts are seared ●nd dead and unclean and therefore we must get us tender and pure hearts ●f we would have good renewed consciences The end of the commandment is ●ove out of a pure heart and good conscience ●nd faith unfeigned 1. Tim. 1.5 See ●ow the Apostle compoundeth them ●ogether a pure heart and a good consci●nce We must get our hearts purged ●nd quickened that they may be sensible of the least evil and then our consciences will be good and be as a bridle to hold us from evil A hard heart and a good conscience can never stand together 4. The fourth is the cleannesse of conscience by the washing of Christs bloud This is the main and the principall of all Yea indeed the bloud of Christ is the sole and onely cause of a good conscience I would not be mistaken I named indeed other causes Knowledge and Humbling and a holy Fear a Combat against sinne and Tendernesse but I do not mean as though a good conscience were part beholding to them and partly to Chri●● bloud For it is wholly and onely b●holding to Christs bloud for its goo●nesse his bloud is the onely price of ● But my meaning is this That thoug● Christs bloud be the one onely cause ● redemption yet in the application of r●demption the Lord useth all those fo●● named graces while he applieth it ● the conscience Therefore this now 〈◊〉 adde The washing of Christs blou● this is chiefly required to the goodnes●● of conscience We have two places o● Scripture to prove it The one Heb. 9.14 How much more shall the bloud ● Christ purge your consciences from dea● works It is that onely can do it Th●