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conscience_n	faith_n	full_a	sprinkle_v	1,152	5	10.7276	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26955	The mischiefs of self-ignorance and the benefits of self-acquaintance opened in divers sermons at Dunstan's-West and published in answer to the accusations of some and the desires of others / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1662 (1662)	Wing B1309; ESTC R5644	245,302	606

a sweet delightful boldness and make you 〈◊〉 to him as your help and refuge in all your necessities When you find the great promise fulfilled to your selves I will put my Law in their hearts and in their minds will I write them and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more you will have boldness to enter into the Holyest by the blood of Jesus by the new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the veil that is to say his flesh And having an high Priest over the house of God you may draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having your hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience or the conscience of evil as your bodies are washed in baptism with pure water Heb. 10.16 17 18 19 20 21 22. In Christ we may have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him Eph. 3.12 This intimate acquaintance with our great High Priest that is passed into the Heavens and yet abideth and reigneth in our hearts will encourage us to hold fast our profession and to come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need Heb. 4.14 16. When by unfeigned Love we know that we are of the truth and may assure our hearts before him and our Heart condemneth us not then we have confidence towards God and whatever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight 1 Joh. 3.18 19 20 21 22. 6. When once you know that you have Christ within you you may cheerfully proceed in the way of Life when doubting Christians that know not whether they are in the way or not are still looking behind them and spend their time in perplexed fears lest they are out of the way and go on with heaviness and trouble as uncertain whether they may not lose their labour and are still questioning their groundwork when the building should go on It is an unspeakable mercy when a believing Soul is freed from these distracting hindering doubts and may bodily and cheerfully hold on his way and be walking or working when other men are fearing and enquiring of the way and may with patience and comfort wait for the reward the ●rown of life when others are still questioning whether they were ever regenerate and whether their hopes have any ground We may be stedfast unmoveable always abounding in the work of the Lord when we know that our labour is not in vain in the Lord 1 Cor. 15.58 We may then gird up the l●ins of the mind and in sobriety hope unto the end for the grace that is to be brought us at the Revelation of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.13 7. When you are assured that you have Christ within you it may preserve you from those terrors of soul that affright the● that have no such assurance O he th●● knoweth what it is to think of the intolerable wrath of God and says I fear I 〈◊〉 the object of this wrath and must bear th●● intolerable lead everlastingly may know● what a mercy it is to be assured of our escape He that knows what it is to think of Hell and say I know not but those endless flames may be my portion will know what a mercy it is to be assured of deliverance and to be able to say I know I am saved from the wrath to come 1 Thes 1.10 And that we are not of them th●● draw back to perdition but of them that believe to ●he saving of the soul Heb. 10.39 And that God hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ who dyed for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him We may comfort our selves together and edifie one another when we have this assurance 1 Thes 5.9 10 11. They that have felt the burden of a wounded spirit and know what it is to feel the terrors of the Lord and to see Hell fire as it were before their eyes and to be kept waking by the dreadful apprehensions of their danger to be pursued daily by an accusing conscience setting their sins in order before them and bringing the threatnings of God to their remembrance these persons will understand that to be assured of a Christ within us and consequently of a Christ that is preparing a place in glory for us is a mercy that the mind of man is now unable to value according to the ten thousandth part of its worth 8. Were you assured that Christ himself is in you it would sweeten all the mercies of your lives It would assure you that they are all the pledges of his love And love in all would be the Kernel and the Life of all your friends your health your wealth your deliverances would be steeped in the dearest Love of Christ and have a spiritual sweetnss in them when to the worldling they have but a carnal unwholsome luscious sweetness and to the doubting Christians they will be turned into troubles while they are questioning the Love and meaning of the giver and whether they are sent for good to them or to aggravate their condemnation and the Company of the Giver will advance your estimation of the gift Mean things with the company of our dearest friends are sweeter then abundance in their absence To have money in your purses and goods in your houses and books in your studies and friends in your near and sweet society are all advanced to the higher value when you know that you have also Christ in your hearts and that all these are but the attendants of your Lord and the fruits that drop from the tree of life and the tokens of his Love importing greater things to follow Whereas in the crowd of all those mercies the foul would be uncomfortable or worse if it mist the presence of its dearest friend and in the midst of all would live but as in a wilderness and go seeking after Christ with tears as Mary at his Sepulchre because they had taken away her Lord as she thought and she knew not where they had laid him Joh. 20.13 All mercies would be bitter to us if the presence of Christ do not put into them that special sweetness which is above the estimate of sense 9. This assurance would do much to preserve you from the temptation of sensual delights While you had within you the matter of more excellent contentment and when you find that these inferiour pleasures ●re enemies to those which are your happi●ess and life you would not be easily taken with the bait The poorest brutish pleasures ●re made much of by them that never were ●cquainted with any better But after the ●weetness of assurance of the Love of God ●ow little relish is there to be found in the pleasures that are so valued by sensual unbe●ievers Let them take them for me saith ●he believing soul may I

not perfect We know we 〈◊〉 be more humbled and more believing an● more watchfull and Love God more an● feare and trust him more and be mo●● fruitfull and diligent and obedient an● zealous and yet we are not What we 〈◊〉 we should be in any of these In these 〈◊〉 all live in sin against knowledge els 〈◊〉 should be all as good as we know we oug●● to be which no man is And if thro●●● temptation any of us should be ready 〈◊〉 despaire because of any of these infirmity 〈◊〉 because we cannot Repent or Love God watch or Pray or Obey more perfectly or as we should yet Grace ceaseth not 〈◊〉 be Grace though in the least degree beca●●● we are ready to despair for want of 〈◊〉 Nor will the sincerity of this spark 〈◊〉 graine of Mustard seed be unsucces●●● 〈◊〉 to our salvation because we think so and ●ake ourselves to be unsincere and our sancti●●cation to be none Nor yet because we ●annot be as obedient and good as we ●now we should be For the Gospell saith ●ot He that knoweth he hath faith or sin●●rity shall be saved and he that knoweth 〈◊〉 not shall be damned or he that is lesse ●●ly or obedient then his conscence tells him he ●hould be shall be damned But he that Be●ieveth and Repenteth shall be saved whether ●e know it to be done in sincerity or no ●nd he that doth not shall be damned though ●e never so confidently think he doth So that in the Degrees of Holynes and obedience all Christians ordinarly sin against knowledge 2. And besides what is ordinary some extraordinarily in the time of a Powerfull temptation go further then ordinarily they do And some under dull Flegmatick melancholy or cholerick diseases or distempers of body or under a diseased violent appetite may transgress more against their knowledge then otherwise they would do when the spirits are flatted the thoughts confused the reason weakened the passion strengthned and the executive faculties undisposed so that their actions are but imperfectly Humane or Morall imperfectly capable of vertue or vice good or evill it is no wonder here if poo● soules not only perceive their sin but thin● it and the danger to be tenfold great●● then they are and yet go on again●● their knowledge and yet have 〈◊〉 grace This much I have said both to stay yo● from misunderstanding what I said before concerning the Power of conviction 〈◊〉 conversion for few Auditoryes wa●● hearers that will be still excepting if Ca●●tion stop not every hole and also to 〈◊〉 you to the fuller understanding of the ●●●●ter its self of which I treat But excepti●●●●mat regulam in non exceptis Exceptio● strengthen and not weaken any Rule 〈◊〉 proposition in the points not except●● Still I say that out of these cases the 〈◊〉 knowledge of a sinfull miserable state 〈◊〉 so great a helpe to bring us out of it 〈◊〉 it s hardly imaginable how rationall me●● can willfully continue in a state of su●● exceeding danger if they be but well ac●quainted that they are in it I know a Har●●ned heart hath an unreasonable obstin●●● opposition against the meanes of its 〈◊〉 recovery But yet men have some use 〈◊〉 Reason and self preserving Love and care ●r they are not men and if they be not 〈◊〉 they cannot be sinfull men And ●hough little transient lightnings oft come ●o nothing but leave some men in grea●er darkness yet could we but set up a ●●anding Light in all your consciences could we fully convince and resolve the unrege●ate that they cannot be saved in the carnall state and way that they are in but must be sanctifyed or never saved what hopes should we have that all the subtiltyes ●nd snares of Satan and all the pleasures and gaine of sin and all the allurements of ungodly company could no longer hinder you from falling down at the feet of mercy and begging forgiveness through the blood of Christ and giving up yourselves in Covenant to the Lord and speedily and resolutely betaking yourselves to an holy life Could I but make you throughly known unto your selves I should hope that all the unsanctified that hear me would date their Conversion from this very day and that you would not delay till the next morning to bewail your sin and misery and fly to Christ lest you should die and be past hope this night And doth so much of our work and of your recovery lie upon this point and yet shall we not be able to ac●complish it Might you be brough● into the way to Heaven if we could b● perswade you that you are yet out of t●● way and will you be undone because yo● will not suffer so small and reasonable part of the cure as this is O God forbid O that we knew how to illuminate yo●● minds so far as to make you find that yo● are lost How ready would Christ be the● to find you and to receive and welcome you upon your return Here is the first difficulty which if we could but overcome 〈◊〉 should hope to conquer all the rest H●● we but a wedge to cleave this knot the rest would the more easily be done Coul● we draw but this one pin of self-deceit the frame of Satans building were like to tumble down O that any of you that know the nature of self-deceit and know the accesses to the inwards of a sinner and know the fallacious reasonings of the heart could tell us but how we might undeceive them O that any of you that know the nature of humane understanding with its several maladies and their cure and know the power of saving truth could tell us what key will undo this lock what medicine will cure this disease of wilfull obstinate self-deceiving Think but on the case of our poor people and of ours and sure you cannot choose but pitty both them and us We are all professors of the Christian faith and all say we believe the word of God This word assureth us that all men are fallen in Adam and are by nature children of wrath and increase in sin and misery till supernatural grace recover them It tells us that the Redeemer is become by office the Physition or Saviour of souls washing away their guilt by his blood and renewing and cleansing their corrupted natures by his Spirit It tell us that he will freely work the cure for all that will take him for their Physicion and will forgive and save them that penitently fly to him and value and accept and trust upon his grace And that except they be thus made new creatures all the world cannot save them from everlasting wrath This is the Doctrine that we all believe or say we do believe Thus doth it open the case of sinners We come now according to our office and the trust reposed in us and we tell our Hearers what the Scripture saith of man and what it commandeth us to tell them We tell them of their