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conscience_n	end_n	faith_n	unfeigned_a	1,201	5	10.8215	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80537	The last, and highest appeal. Or, An appeal to God, against the new-religion-makers, dresters, menders, or venders amongst us. Wherein is evidenced, amongst other things, that they have not true faith, true repentance, or true charity. Likewise, that the seven heads of sin, commonly called, the seven deadly sins, are manifestly apparent in the lifes of their preachers. / By Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1656 (1656)	Wing C623; Thomason E1650_2; ESTC R209117	20,505	52

natural constitution and propension so but in a more high measure we must abominate Sin as the only-Contrary to the Nature Holiness and most excellent Goodnesse of God The Sorrow discovers it self outwardly by newness of Life and by Satisfactien for injuries committed in Word or Work in Goods Body or Good-Name For he that repents ought to undo the Work of Sin to his utmost ability that is as far as he is able to make up the rents and breaches caused by Sin Verily he ought not to endure that there should remain any shape colour or foot-step of his sins If he does he being able to remove them his Wish Abomination and Sorrow or Displicence are all idle vain and void Wherefore this was the godly practise of Zacheus and it was graciously entred and answer'd by Christ And Zacheus stood up said unto the Lord Behold Lord the half of my goods I give to Luk. 19. ● the poor and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation I restore him four-fold And Jesus said unto him This ● 9. day is salvation come to this house forsomuch as he also is the Son of Abraham The Person injured suffers in the taking in the detaining of Things properly his in his troubled minde and body in his name dishonour'd and stained Which is the reason say the Casuists of a fourfold Restitution The Purpose involves an exclusion of two Wills the Explicite will of sinning and the Implicite will of sinning That will is an open will which stands up and awakes yea calls up occasions of sinning This will is a close will that lies as it were asleep in the bottom of the Heart and is called up and awaked by occasions The pious King with a Kingly Resolution resolves against and excludes both I said Ps 39. 1. I will take heed to my waies that I sin not with my tongue I will keep my mouth with a bridle The old Latin Bibles have ut Vetus Interp. non delinquam in lingua mea that I slip not with my tongue For Delicta are those faults which the Septuagint call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 defects slips or slidings Posui Sept. ori meo custodiam so the Latin I have set a guard at the Door of my mouth His Purpose is firm strong and of a large extent and as wisely and readily undertaken so resolutely and wisely maintained These Novellists are so great Strangers to Satisfaction that they neither own it nor know it yea when they should satisfie for old Wrongs in lieu therof they administer and multiply new Injuries Give judgement O King of Men and Angels CHAP. VII The fourth Matter in Question THe fourth Matter of the Appeal comes forth My constant Maxim is These new-found wilde people although they continually take in vain the sacred Name of the most holy Spirit of God who is Love or Charity yet have not 1 Joh. 4 16. true Charity True Charity is the Vertue by which we love God above all Things for himself and for the infinite Excellencies in him and by the which also we love our neighbours for God and with relation to the divine Commands Now we find in the large Volume of our own long Experience that since this Generation of Vipers hath crept out of darkness into the light true Charity hath been almost quite extinct and there hath come by a certain contagion a kind of the flowing of the Gaul amongst all sorts of people No mortal Eye ever saw no Ear heard of from the first entrance of Christian Faith into this Nation less operations and expressions of true Charity amongst us than at this present We finde some men to love as connexed in bloud in neighbourhood in good fellowship as they call it as obliged by benefits as being of the same Sect or Faction but who loves from a supernatural Principle or as inflamed by true charity If such were obvious we should know them Matt. 7. 16. by their fruits Therefore whereas the Things which we know by experience thou O God must needs know in thine infinite Light and there must of necessity be a most excellent conformity betwixt the Truth of Things and the Truth of the divine Understanding To thee as the Supreme Rule and Measure of all Things I appeal And yet we all know that true Faith is manifested by true Charity and that the Apostle requires of us Faith which worketh by love The Textual Word is Galat. 5. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Charity Yea It is as strange for Faith to be without the motions and workings of Charity as for Fire to give light and not to burn Which was the reason why John the Baptist was called by our ever-blessed Saviour a burning Jo. 5. 3 and a shining light lamp or candle whenas to give light and to burn in fire have the same moment of beginning and according to nature the same continuance Charity is our evidence that we live spiritually Indeed The just shall live by Rom. 1. 17. faith But as life is discovered by some kinde of motion so the life of Faith is known by the necessary motions of Charity Wherefore if we have not Charity we are as tinkling cymbals and have as the Church in Sardis a name that we 1 Cor. 13. 1. Rev. 3. 1. live but are dead Charity is the Vertue directing and guiding moral Vertues to their End and spiritualizing them Which Vertues would otherwise be meerly-moral and heathenish It is the Vertue causing that excellent concatenation and connexion which is betwixt Vertues thus-perfected guided and directed conformably to St. Paul And above all these things Coloss 3. 14. put on charity which is the bond of perfectness Charity is the end of all God's Commandements It is the language of St. Paul Now the end of the Commandement 1 Tim. 1. 5. is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned The word in the Apostolical Tongue for unfeigned is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unhypocritical And he sayes Faith being without Charity which is the end of the Commandment is hypocritical CHAP. VIII The fifth Matter in Question THe fifth Matter of the Appeal succeeds These little Baby-Christians these Pygmie-Saints these Fairy blew cap't Night-Dancers do stile themselves the Disciples of Christ and the Servants of God yea impudently say that they are the only holy-ones that truly glorifie God or that give glory glaury they call it unto their dear Father I deny that they are God's Servants or Christ's Disciples or that they glorifie God except that by their leaving and withdrawing themselves from the Order of his Grace and Mercy they glorifie him by their falling under the Order of his Iustice And I appeal unto the Master whom they pretend to serve and follow and who knoweth his own Servants and 2 Tim. 2 19. them that are his My Denyal standeth upon this Ground Herein is