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conscience_n	day_n	keep_v	sabbath_n	1,672	5	10.1381	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19293	A familiar treatise laying downe cases of conscience, furthering to perseuerance in sanctification. By Thomas Cooper, preacher of Gods word.; Converts first love, discerned	Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.	1615 (1615)	STC 5700; ESTC S120771	80,590	120

thereby doth it not vsually peruert and spoile them of what they seemed to haue had breaking all bonds of ciuill honesty and so makes them worse then bruit beasts without vnderstanding Doe not the poore receiue the Gospell when the rich and mighty are sent empty away because either they cannot come or come with their outward man their hearts runne after their couetousnes Is the word entertained with such otherwise thē for state or cōplement or else to make them merry To condemn the rashnesse and folly of such as will reproue or to deride their flattery that will call light darknesse must it not dance after our pipe and serue our lusts to harden vs in sinne and ripen vs to vengeance Is not thus the prosperity of the wicked their destruction Prou. 1. Psal 55. Ier. 48.11 and not their conuersion Doth not the old sent remaine in Moab because he was not changed from vessell to vessell but enioyed constant prosperity thereby was setled on his lees and rooted more obstinately in natures dregges thereby exercised more greedily and desperately the lusts thereof Ose 4.7 Psalm 78. Ose 5. Can the change of the outward estate change the inward man from worse to better As they were increased so did not Gods people rebel against him who in their afflictions sought vnto him deceitfully Is not here a change from better to worse we fawne on God till we haue our desires and when our turne is serued then depart from vs Lord we will not the knowledge of thy waies what profit shall we haue if we serue the Almighty Iob. 21.15.16 We haue now no need of God and therefore it is in vaine to serue him As for walking in a ciuill calling Ciuill honesty no euidence of conuersion howsoeuer this being sanctified by the spirituall may be a meanes to lay vp a good foundation against the day of Christ 1. Tim. 6.19.20 yet to the naturall man there is not a more dangerous outward meanes to exclude grace then the greatest measure of honesty that is seene therein For is it not the grace of this calling to rest in it selfe for good successe without inuocation of Gods assistance or reference to his blessing Is not our pursuit hereof a priuiledge to exempt from holy duties We must liue and therefore we cannot be bookish We haue no leasure to the Church Or is it not enough to come when we may haue leisure Is it not sufficient that we are not Papists in profession though we are Papists in ignorance and prophanation to yea grosse Idolaters in making our belly our God the world our confidence Is it not meritorious that we giue almes and receiue our maker once a yeere Psal 15.4 that we are no whores nor theeues we doe no body any wrong we liue of our own doth not this vtterly exclude religion in the family doth it not banish all loue to the power of religion doth it not extinguish all sense of inward corruption Is it not to sticke in the forme of Religion and so to renounce the power thereof Is not this to say in our hearts there is no God seeing he is onely in our lippes and not in our raynes do we not deny him in our liues and carnall worship who is a spirit and will be worshipped in spirit and truth howsoeuer we boast that we know him enough And doe our mouthes otherwise acknowledge him then at best by prophaning his great name and blaspheming it ordinarily in our daily communication Nay is it not a price proposed to incourage diligence in these worldly businesses euen licence to prophane the Sabbaths to despise the word c. And what if men keepe touch and day in paiments and contracts What if a little eie seruice be vsed in the outside of their wares Is it for conscience to God to whom they desire to approue the truth of their hearts or onely a care for the maintenance of trading and mutuall commerce which without this outward seeming equity must needs be abolished Who will trust or shall be trusted if word be not kept But is it kept any further then may cleere from touch of mans law Is promise kept here to our hinderance so we may winde out by the arme of flesh Is the substance of our wares any thing lesse then answerable to the shew Is not God robbed of his glory while we sacrifice to our labour and wit Is not this great Babel which I haue built for the honor of my name c. Eccl. 9.1 Surely as these outward things are common to all so no man knoweth loue or hatred either by prosperity or aduersity Well may a good man by right vsage make these good vnto him but these of themselues may well make him worse otherwise they haue no power inwardly to better him Onely it belongeth vnto God through the ministery of his word to conuert the soule as tendring to this end vnto vs Psal 19. 1. Per. 1.18 not corruptible things as siluer and gold which make outwardly happy in this life but the precious blood of Christ 1. Ioh. 1.8 as a Lambe vndefiled without spot whreby we are cleansed from all our sinnes and redeemed from our vaine conuersation receiued by the tradition of the fathers 8. Profession Practise Math. 7. Luke 8 Mark 6.25 But harken I pray you vnto a further plea of the hypocrite Haue we not heard thee teaching in our streets Nay Haue we not taught in thy name Haue we not receiued the word with ioy and done many things accordingly Can the best doe more Doe not we in many things offend all Is not this a sufficient euidence of an effectuall conuersion Surely where the grace of God which bringeth saluation to all men Tit. 2.11 hath appeared effectually there it teacheth vs not onely to eschew all euill in thought Math. 5. Act. 15.19 warde and deed but on the contrary to prosecute all good both 1. inwardly in heart and minde as being purified by faith whereby with constant purpose we cleane vnto God and also 2. outwardly in the life and conuersation Iam. 3.1 Act. 11.23 Ephes 1. Rom. 12.1 1. Cor. 6. yea generally and vniuersally hauing respect to all Gods commandements Psal 119.7.8 and constantly also continuing and abounding yea increasing in grace and finishing our course that no man take away our Crowne Reuel 3. 1. Cor. 15. Profession and some practise of religion no euidence of true conuersion 2. Cor. 2.14 Ioh 15. Psal 119. Ezech. 33 3● 31. Heb. 4.2 58. Ephes 3. Collos 1.2 Pet. 1.8.9 2. Tim. 4.3 Phil. 13. And therefore seeing the word of God must be a sauour of death vnto death vnto some who are to bee renounced and made inexcusable thereby hence is it that though they receiue it 1. with ioy as being rauished with the sweetnesse thereof yet being not mixed with faith it becomes vnprofitable yea a witnesse aegainst them and so the ioy of the hypocrite