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A80475	The deputy divinity or, inferiour deity and subordinate God in the world, Conscience, I say, 1 Cor.10.29. A discourse of conscience, being the substance of two sermons, delivered: one of them at the Temple-church in London: the other in the countrey. / By Henry Carpenter, Minister of the gospel at Steeple-Ashton in Wilts.	Carpenter, Henry, 1605 or 6-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing C614; Thomason E1711_1; ESTC R209576	23,781	132

all Scripture given by Inspiration of God 2 Tim. 3.16 is profitable not only for doctrine but also for reproof correction and instruction c. So let this be used 1. For reproof Of three Errors in opinion 1. 1. Error That Conscience in general is not common to all as if some men had no Consciences whereas it is as possible for fire to be without heat as for any man to be without a Conscience The vulgar saying is Such a man hath no Conscience c. But the meaning is He hath no good Conscience for as good none as none good But every man hath a Conscience one or other such as it is good or bad For it is a standing Power created by God and unmoveably set in the soul of man abiding for ever with him whether he be on Earth in Heaven or Hell 2. 2. Error That Conscience is nothing but a sad mood or melancholy sit or heavy damp and dumps on the spirit of a man c. Erroneously mistaking the effect of the cause Whereas Conscience is a standard chained to man ever remaining with him when all his moods and fits of heats and colds of fears and joyes and jollities are over and gone Let Hypocrites and Epicures slabber it with their jollity and daub it with their formality yet their Consciences will be sure one time or other if not in the midst of their drunken carouses and riotousexcesses like those singers of a mans hand on Belshazzar's wall get in the end and bottome Dan 5.5 to sadden soure and spoyl all Prov. 14.13 yea even in their best services as in Cain's Sacrifice when his countenance was dijected there will be something if not in the midst Gen. 4.5 yet in the end to tell them That both their Acts and Persons are rejected That Conscience is hanged or drowned 3. Error dead and gone a great while a go c. But alas these are idle addle opinions Atheistical Proverbs and sottish imaginations had it been no more then this That Conscience hath lain long bedrid and speechlesse c. it had been enough yet it might be raised and recovered But that he is dead yea so shamefully and accursedly dead 'T is petty Atheism to say and think so No no Ahitophel can tell you That though a man hang himself 2 Sam. 17.23 yet he cannot hang his Conscience Saul can tell you 1 Sam. 31.4 That though a man kill himself yet he cannot kill his Conscience which is as immortal as his soul Judas could tell you Mat. 27.4 That no force or violence can suppresse or curb it for it made him carry back the price and decry his sin saying I have sinned Pharaoh could tell you That no earthly might or majesty can bash or dash it but that one time or other it will stare and flie in the sinners face for it did in his as great a King as he was and made him say I have now sinned The Lord is righteous Exod. 9.27 but I and my people are wicked Saul again could tell you That no Mirth or Musick can Charme or Conjure the evill spirit of it 1 Sam. 16.14 16. for his bad Conscience plaied the Divel with his wretched soul And Joseph's Brethren could tell you That time and years cannot expunge the writings nor obliterate or eat out the ingravings of it for twenty years after when there was no other Pursuer or Remembrancer it accused them Gen. 42.21 22. and made them look wistly upon one another and accuse themselves of their cruel unnaturall usage of him Nullum tempus occurrit Regi And they said one to another We are verily guilty concerning our Brother c. Therefore is this distresse come upon us and his blood required of us And now having mentioned twenty years 't is the lesse notable to speak of Pharaoh's Butler's Conscience remembring him about one year after Gen. 40.23 Gen. 41.9 I do now remember my faults this day And verily so it is That as many in youthful vanity and vain-glory do such violent wrongs in bulges and bruises to their bodies as forty or fifty years after they sadly remember in the Aches and Ailings of pained old Age So do many bear out insensibly for a time the bulges and bruises they have given their souls it may be thirty forty fifty years till the hand of the Lord be upon them either in some heavy crosse and sharp affliction or a Death-bed and then commonly Conscience remembers them For Conscience will keep a grudge a long time and is not so soon pacified as offended though it doth not always shew remorse yet it always keeps remembrance though in many men it sleep in regard of motion yet it never sleeps in regard of notice and observation And though not always speaking yet it is always writing taking Notes preparing Bills and Items against that day to come Nay death it self that dissolves all worldly knots and parts the neerest on Earth Man and Wife cannot part Conscience and Sinner but it remains in him as a worm that never dies Mar. 9.44 and as a fire that never goes out Isa 66.24 not on Earth no nor in Hell And thus for reproof of three errors and false opinions 2. For Correction Of three practical Errors and Misbehaviours of the World in point of Conscience 1. 1. Miscarriage In wrapping up Goliah's sword in a fair cloth behind the Ephod In hiding the monstrous miscarriages prodigious impieties and divelish practises of the World under that Religious name and specious mask of Conscience One man is of an erroneous opinion and Hetrodox judgement holds some false doctrine by means either of the authority of the Teacher or of the dignity of some eminent follower as having mens persons in admiration Jam. 2.1 Jude 16. and having the faith of Christ in respect of persons or of prejudice and prepossession sticking to his first perswasion pride and obstinacy denying place for retractation or truer information and this he calls his Conscience Another is of an irrefractory inclination of an heady headstrong humour and propension his senses not exercised to discern between his natural and spiritual disposition Heb. 5.24 the motion of his sensitive appetite and his diviner principle his lower and his upper soul and the former commonly is more obstreperous importunate and clamorous for satisfaction then the latter whereby a man thinks himselfe bound to do whatsoever he hath a strong mind will and humour to do and this he calls his Conscience Another is of a strong strange imagination and phantasie which is a kind of irrational animal conscience having the same relation to sensitive representations those Laws in the members which Conscience hath to intellectual those Laws of the mind Rom. 7.23 Aristotle And as phantasie supplieth the place of reason in unreasonable creatures so it doth of Conscience in unconscionable when a man is directed