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cause_n	church_n	civil_a	ecclesiastical_a	2,893	5	8.1068	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03796	St. Pauls exercise, or, A sermon of conscience Describing the nature of it; and declaring the manner and meanes how to obtaine, and retaine, a good conscience. Preached by Iohn Hughes, Doctor in Diuinitie.	Hughes, John, fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 13914; ESTC S104276	14,412	29

way of application It is a witty Parable which one of the Fathers hath of a man that had three friends two whereof he loued intirely the third but indifferently This man being called in question for his life sought helpe of his friends The first would beare him company some part of his way The second would lend him money and affoord him some meanes for his iourney and that was all that they would or could doe for him But the third whom he least respected and from whom hee least expected this would goe all the way and abide all the while with him yea hee would appeare with him speake and plead for him My brethren this man is euery one of vs and our three friends are the Flesh the World and our Conscience Now when death shall summon vs to iudgement what can our friends after the flesh doe for vs They will bring vs some part of the way Our Wiues and Children and our dearest friends they will bring vs to the graue and further they cannot goe And of all the worldly goods which we possesse what shall we haue what will they affoord vs onely a shrowde and a Coffin or a Tombe at the most 〈…〉 a good Conscience this will liue and 〈…〉 or rather liue when we are dead and 〈…〉 ●ine it will appeare with vs 〈…〉 ●●dgement seat And when 〈…〉 purse can doe vs good 〈◊〉 a good 〈◊〉 will speake and plead for vs yea excuse and 〈◊〉 O then my 〈◊〉 let vs labour aboue all things to haue and to hold a good Conscience keepe it as the apple of thine eye and doe nothing to offend it Aures omnium pulso Conscientias si●● gulorum con●enio I speake to the eares of all in generall I conuent the Conscience of euery one in particular yea I appeale to all that heare me this day what little regard there is made of Conscience in our age and how few there are that follow the dictates thereof And therefore O Conscience I turne my speech vnto thee thou art a iudge of Iudges and one day thou shalt iudge vs all and testifie either with vs or against vs In the meane time it is thy office to preach ouer my Sermon againe and againe and to apply it to the hearts of all that heare me this day or else my labour is but lost Goe to all estates of persons tell them of their duties and put them in minde of God and thy selfe Speake vnto those Honourable persons that sit at the Sterne of Gouernment either in Church or Common-wealth that they consult with thee in all their counsells and courses that they preferre thee before policie that they execute true iustice and iudgement without partialitie or respect of parsons and that they cause others that are subordinate vnto them to doe the like Speake to those that are towards the Law and other Officers in Courts of Iustice and equitie either Ciuill or Ecclesiasticall specially in those Courts that are of thy Iurisdiction and haue their Denomination from thee that they entertaine nor maintaine bad Causes against the innocent that they wrest nor the law to terrifie their poore neighbours and to intangle the simple that they spinne not our honest suites to such length of time and costlinesse that it may bee said and that truely Causa torque● noce●tem Comsidicus innocentem The Medicine is more grieuous then the maladie Speake to my Reuerend Brethren of the Clergy that they preach Vi●a voce that is Vita voce both by life and by doctrine that they teach after a plaine and a profitable manner not affecting craggy curious Scholasticall speculations fitter for the chaire then the Pulpit nor such Roman English and sublimity of 〈◊〉 that a plaine English-man cannot vnderstand them for our Language is now grown so learned that a man may clerum in English Speake to the poore that they beare their pouerty with patience and as for those that are rich O charge them that they be not high minded that they trust not in vucertaine riches but in the liuing God that they be rich in good workes ready to distribute laying vp for themselues a good foundation against the time to come In a word to conclude speake to all men and women that they feare God and serue him in vprightnes 〈◊〉 truth that they serue him in holinesse righteousnesse before him all th● da●●s 〈…〉 that denying vngodlinesse and 〈◊〉 losts they liue soberly righteously and godly in 〈◊〉 present world looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Sauiour Iesus Christ To whom with the Holy Ghost three persons and one immortall and eternall God bee all honour praise and glory foreuer and euer Amen FINIS August The Preface The coherence Verse●● Goran Verse 14. Verse 15. The sence of the Words The Diuision The first part Aquin. pars 1. Q. 79. Art 13. Conscience defined The parts of the definition expounded Meditations Aristot. Sen●ca I●●enal Lips Pol. M. Perkins Seneca lib. 1. Epist. 43. The nature of Conscience illustrated De interiori domo M. Cade A briefe Application Iohn 13. 17. Conscience two fold Prou. 15. 15. 2 Cor. 1. 12. Conscience foure-fold Good but not quiet Three degrees of Conscience that is quiet but not good Caeca * M. Wards Balme from Gilead 2. Secura Ad Heliodor 3 Obdurata Good and quiet Neither good nor quiet Part 3. Hippocrat Obedience Lumbard Iam. 2. 10. Iud. 23. Sincerity Prou. 23. 26. Col. 3. 23. Iohn 4. 14. Math. 6. 2. Constancie 2 Tim. 4. 10. Gal. 5. 7. Reuci 2. Chrysos● Ierom. Beru● 1 Tim. 1. 19. The corruptions of Conscience Ignorance Pride Austin Vncharitablenesse Luk. 10. 27. Vnruly passions of the minde Austin Col. 3. 5. Application Gregory in his Morals Austin An Apostrophe to Conscience 1 Tim. 6. Iosuah 24. Like 1. Tit. 2. 12.